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Meadowbank Estate Farm
Meadowbank Park Park or open space
Medlow Bath Suburb
Megalong Suburb
Melita Stadium Granville Sporting venue
Melrose Park Suburb
Memorial Park Blackheath Park or open space
Menai Suburb
Menangle Park Suburb
Menangle Park Paceway Sporting venue
Meriam Hill Estate Subdivision
Merrylands Suburb
Merrylands West Suburb
Middle Cove Suburb
Middle Dural Suburb
Middle Harbour Suburb
Middleton Grange Suburb
Miller Suburb
Millers Point Suburb
Millers Point gasworks Industrial site
Millwood Farm
Milperra Suburb
Milsons Passage Suburb
Milsons Point Suburb
Minchinbury Suburb
Minto Suburb
Minto Heights Suburb
Minto school and Communist party camp Camp
Miranda Suburb
Mitchell Park National Park
Molles Maines Estate
Mona Vale Suburb
Montague Gardens Park or open space
Monterey Suburb
Montview Oval Sporting venue
Moore Estate Estate
Moore Park Park or open space
Moore Park Suburb
Moorebank Suburb
Moorefield racecourse Sporting venue
Moorefields Locality
Moores Creek Reserve Park or open space
Morning Bay Suburb
Mort Bay Locality
Mortdale Suburb
Mortlake Suburb
Mortlake Gasworks Industrial site
Mosman Suburb
Mosman local government area Region
Mount Annan Suburb

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Meadowbank Estate

Land grant to Surgeon William Balmain in Ryde district in 1794.

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Farm

Meadowbank Park

Reserve on the north bank of Parramatta River half a kilometre west of Meadowbank Railway Station.

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Park or open space

Medlow Bath

Small town located near the highest point in the Blue Mountains. It is the site of the historic Hydro-Majestic Hotel, overlooking the Megalong Valley.

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Suburb

Megalong

Area to the south west of Katoomba which is part of the Blue Mountains local government area.

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Melita Stadium Granville

Home ground of the Melita Eagles Sports Club.

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Sporting venue

Melrose Park

Small residential and industrial suburb on north bank of the Parramatta River west of Meadowbank. Established as a housing estate in 1937, it is named after South Australian pioneer aviator Jimmy Melrose (1913–1936).

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Memorial Park Blackheath

Park dedicated in 1919 as a World War I memorial, to which swimming pools were added in the 1920s, dressing sheds in the 1930s. The park was built on land which had been reserved for railway dams, necessary in the days of steam trains.

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Menai

South-western bushland and residential suburb named after the Menai Strait in Wales. It was originally named Bangor by Welsh settler Owen Jones in 1895.

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Menangle Park

Far south-western semi-rural suburb. It is named after the Menangle Park Paceway.

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Menangle Park Paceway

Harness racing track which was requisitioned by the army during both world wars. In 1942 an aerodrome was constructed for use by the Royal Navy. It reopened as a paceway in 1953 and was totally reconstructed in 2008.

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Meriam Hill Estate

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Residential and commercial subdivision made in 1888 on the eastern side of West Ryde railway station. The land had been part of the estate of John Blaxland. Often also referred to as Miriam Hill, even in the original advertisements for the subdivision.

Subdivision

Merrylands

Western residential suburb named after the English home of politician and explorer Arthur Todd Holroyd.

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Merrylands West

Western residential suburb named after the English home of Arthur Todd Holroyd.

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Middle Cove

Northern residential suburb on peninsula between two arms of Sugarloaf Bay on Middle Harbour.

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Middle Dural

North-western semi-rural suburb, one of several settlements along Old Northern Road.

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Middle Harbour

Suburb on the north shore of Sydney, occupying the area south of the Spit Bridge.

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Middleton Grange

South-western residential suburb, officially designated in 2005. It is named after Ron Middleton VC, killed in air combat over the English Channel in 1942.

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Miller

South-western residential suburb named after early landholder Peter Miller. It was developed by the NSW Housing Commission in the early 1960s as part of the Green Valley Estate.

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Millers Point

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Inner-city suburb on the western side of the Harbour Bridge's southern approaches. It was named for the windmills that were built on its heights, and their owner, John Leighton, known as Jack the Miller.

Millers Point gasworks

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The city's first gasworks, established by the Australian Gas Light Company in 1841, on the Darling Harbour edge of Millers Point, where Barangaroo is now. Production was gradually transferred to the company's Haymarket site and the Mortlake. The works were sold to the state government in 1912 and the buildings demolished by 1922. Some traces of the site still remain.

Industrial site

Millwood

Farm established in 1808 near the present day corner of Lady Game Drive and Millwood Avenue, Lindfield.

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Milperra

South-western residential and industrial suburb, south of Bankstown airport, named for an Aboriginal word meaning 'a gathering of people'. It was settled after the First World War by ex-servicemen as an area of poultry and vegetable farms, with residential development beginning after the Second World War.

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Milsons Passage

Small far-northern suburb on south bank of Hawkesbury River, named for the waterway between Milson Island and the mainland. It is only accesible by boat.

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Milsons Point

Located on Sydney Harbour, adjacent to the northern approaches of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Milsons Point played an important role in the development of the lower north shore.

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Minchinbury

Western residential suburb between Great Western Highway and M4 Motorway. Named after the property of Captain William Minchin, who was granted land here in 1819, it later became the site of vineyards.

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Minto

Far south-western residential and industrial suburb, named in the early 1800s after Lord Minto, Governor-General of India. Rural in character until the 1950s, it grew after Campbelltown was designated as a growth centre.

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Minto Heights

Far south-western semi-rural suburb bordering Holsworthy military reserve. It was declared a separate suburb in 1976.

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Minto school and Communist party camp

A leafy retreat on the Georges River, Minto Camp trained generations of Sydney Communist cadres in the work of Marx and the problems of Sydney industry and politics.

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Camp

Miranda

Southern commercial and residential suburb, named in the nineteenth century after the character in Shakespeare's play ˜The Tempest'. It became a fruit growing and poultry farming area, with settlements of returned First World War soldiers being established there in the 1920s.

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Mitchell Park

Part of Cattai National Park on Cattai Creek. The surrounding bushland includes huge forest red gums and a rare remnant rainforest

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National Park

Molles Maines

Land grant made to George Molle at Currans Hill in 1816.

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Estate

Mona Vale

North-eastern residential and commercial beachside suburb on land granted to Robert Campbell (1769-1846) and possibly named after a place in his native Scotland. It was a market gardening area, specialising in tomatoes grown in glasshouses, before residential development began after the Second World War.

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Montague Gardens

Park established when a property was demolished in the 1970s.

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Monterey

Southern residential suburb on western shore of Botany Bay, named after the town in California. It became a separate suburb in 1972.

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Montview Oval

Sporting oval on Montview Parade, Hornsby Heights.

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Moore Estate

Over 800 acres of land purchased by William Moore in the 1870s and 1880s along the Lane Cove River.

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Moore Park

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Large area of parklands in inner south-east, also the location of the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney Football Stadium, and the former showgrounds, now an entertainment precinct.

Moore Park

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Suburb to the west of Centennial Park. It includes Moore Park and its various businesses and facilities.

Moorebank

South-western residential and industrial suburb, bordered to the west by Georges River. It has been proposed as the site for a major intermodal freight terminal.

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Moorefield racecourse

Racecourse established by Peter Moore in 1888 at the corner of President Avenue and Rocky Point Road (now Princes Highway) Kogarah. The site is now occupied by Moorefield Girls high school and St George TAFE.

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Moorefields

Locality on the site of the former Moorefield racecourse at the intersection of President Avenue and Princes Highway, Kogarah.

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Locality

Moores Creek Reserve

Park in East Lindfield adjoining Moores Creek.

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Morning Bay

Small northern suburb on western shore of Pittwater.

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Mort Bay

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Bay on the Balmain peninsula between Ballast and Simmons Points converted from a port and maritime industrial area to residential and park lands.

Mortdale

Southern residential suburb, named for industrialist Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (1816-1878). It became popular in the 1920s when houses were built by soldiers returned from the First World War.

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Mortlake

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Western residential suburb on the southern bank of the Parramatta River, named after the district on the River Thames in England. It developed around the large gasworks built on the river by the Australian Gas Light Company.

Mortlake Gasworks

Gas production works established by the Australian Gas Light Company in 1886 using coal brought from Newcastle.

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Mosman

Large suburb on Sydney's lower north shore which, since colonial times, has been home to civil maritime and defence installations, and is also a popular recreation area, with many harbour beaches, Taronga Zoo and pockets of Sydney Harbour National Park.

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Mosman local government area

Area on peninsula between Middle Harbour and Sydney Harbour, traditional lands of the Borogegal people, governed by Mosman Municipal Council. Occupied by a single suburb, and one of the smallest local government areas at 9 square kilometres, its position is picturesque and expensive.

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Region

Mount Annan

Far south-western residential and rural suburb named by William Howe, who came from Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It has seen a huge increase in population since the 1990s and is home to the Australian Botanic Garden.

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