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Berowra Valley Regional Park Entity
Berowra Waters Entity
Berrilee Entity
Berry Island Entity
Beverley Park Entity
Beverly Hills Entity
Bexley Entity
Bexley North Entity
Bicentennial Park Entity
Bicentennial Reserve Naremburn Entity
Bickley Vale Entity
Bidwill Entity
Big Island Estate Entity
Bilgola Entity
Bilpin Entity
Birchgrove Entity
Birkenhead Point Entity
Birrong Entity
Birrung Park White Bay Entity
Blackett Entity
Blackheath Entity
Blacktown Entity
Blair Athol Entity
Blairmount Entity
Blake's quarry Entity
Blakehurst Entity
Blaxcell Entity
Blaxland Entity
Blaxland's Hermitage Estate No 2 Entity
Blaxlands Ridge Entity
Bligh Park Entity
Blues Point Entity
Bondi Entity
Bondi Aquarium Entity
Bondi Beach Entity
Bondi Junction Entity
Bonnet Bay Entity
Bonnie Vale Entity
Bonnyrigg Entity
Bonnyrigg Heights Entity
Boronia Park Entity
Bossley Park Entity
Botanica Entity
Botany Entity
Kamay Botany Bay National Park Entity
Bow Bowing Entity
Bowen Mountain Entity
Box Hill Entity
Bradbury Entity
Bradbury Park Entity

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Berowra Valley Regional Park

Bushland park covering almost 40,000 hectares.

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Berowra Waters

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Far northern locality on the shores of Berowra Creek. With its restaurants, marina, car ferry, scenic walks and salt water pool, it is a popular tourist destination.

Berrilee

Far northern semi-rural suburb five kilometres west of Berowra. In 2002 its public school was the smallest in Sydney.

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Berry Island

Previously an island between Gore Cove and Balls Head Bay at Wollstonecraft, it is now joined to the peninsula by reclaimed parkland.

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Beverley Park

Residential and parkland suburb at the head of Kogarah Bay. In 1988, the National Trust of Australia (New South Wales) nominated part of it as a conservation area for its value as a rare example of a 1930s subdivision composed predominantly of Californian bungalows and for the quality of the streetscapes.

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Beverly Hills

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Southern residential suburb largely developed after the completion of the East Hills railway line in 1931. Residents disliked its previous name 'Dumbleton' and it was renamed in 1940 after the district in California.

Bexley

Southern residential suburb, named for Bexley in London by James Chandler, an early landholder. It was developed into suburban housing after the railway reached nearby Hurstville in 1884.

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Bexley North

Southern residential suburb, named for Bexley in London by James Chandler, an early landholder. Its railway station opened on the East Hills line in 1931.

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Bicentennial Park

Natural heritage site featuring wetland ecosystem and parklands, on the shore of Homebush Bay.

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Bicentennial Reserve Naremburn

Reserve encompassing Flat Rock Creek and containing urban bushland and outdoor recreation facilities.

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Bickley Vale

Rural locality west of Camden. Named after the property owned by the Sidman family, it has remained virtually untouched by residential development.

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Bidwill

Western residential suburb, much of it built as public housing in the 1960s and 1970s. It is named after John Carne Bidwill (1815-1853), early director of the Botanic Gardens.

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Big Island Estate

Subdivision created in 1876 out of the 2,000 acres granted to John Terry Hughes in 1842, which became part of Warrawee.

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Bilgola

Northern beach suburb between Pittwater and the Pacific Ocean, separated into Bilgola Beach and Bilgola Plateau in 2012.

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Bilpin

Town along Bells Line of Road, surrounded by national park. It is known for its fruit orchards.

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Birchgrove

Wealthy waterfront suburb located on the north west slope of the Balmain peninsula. It is named after Birch Grove House, home of John Birch, paymaster of the 73rd Regiment.

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Birkenhead Point

South easterly point on the Drummoyne peninsula. Once home to a tyre factory, now redeveloped into a shopping centre.

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Birrong

Western residential suburb. Its name, said to be Aboriginal for 'star', was given about 1927.

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Birrung Park White Bay

Park in Balmain beside the former White Bay container facility.

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Blackett

Western residential suburb which grew from the 1970s as part of the Mount Druitt public housing development. Its name comes from George Blackett, Superintendent of the Government Cattle Station at Rooty Hill during Macquarie's governorship. Many of its streets are named after Australian writers.

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Blackheath

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Town west of Katoomba, named by Governor Macquarie in 1815. With an altitude of 1,065 metres, it is the highest town in the Blue Mountains.

Blacktown

Western suburb on the country of the Darug people, which as 'Blacks' Town' became the site of the short-lived Native Institution in 1823. It was a separate town until suburban development joined it to Sydney in the mid-twentieth century.

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Blair Athol

South-western residential suburb, named after the 1879 homestead of John Kidd. Formerly industrial, it was zoned as residential in 1992.

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Blairmount

South-western residential suburb. Its streets are named after horse breeds, in recognition of the Blairmount horse stud which once stood on the site.

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Blake's quarry

Quarry near present-day Blakesley Rd Allawah.

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Blakehurst

Southern residential suburb on the northern bank of the Georges River in Kogarah local government area. In the nineteenth century it was a centre for market gardens and boatbuilding.

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Blaxcell

Locality in the Granville area named for early settler Garnham Blaxcell.

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Blaxland

Lower Blue Mountains bushland town. It was originally named after John Wascoe, proprietor of the Pilgrim Inn.

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Blaxland's Hermitage Estate No 2

Last part of estate originally belonging to John Blaxland, sold in 1922 and subdivided for residential allotments..

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Blaxlands Ridge

A western suburb in the City of Hawkesbury north of East Kurrajong.

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Bligh Park

North-western residential suburb on southern outskirts of Windsor.

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Blues Point

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Locality on Sydney Harbour named for mariner Billy Blue.

Bondi

Inner-eastern suburb adjacent to Bondi Beach, largely a working class suburb for much of the twentieth century and also home to a large population of Jewish immigrants. Its name comes from an Aboriginal word for 'sound of waves breaking on a beach'.

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Bondi Aquarium

Aquarium and amusement park in the valley of Fletcher's Glen at Tamarama beach.

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Bondi Beach

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Iconic eastern beach suburb. Its name comes from an Aboriginal word for 'sound of waves breaking on a beach'.

Bondi Junction

Busy eastern suburbs commercial centre, with a rail and bus interchange and high rise development. Known as 'Tea Gardens' until the construction of the tram line from Darlinghurst in the 1880s.

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Bonnet Bay

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Suburb on the eastern shore of the Woronora River in Sydney's south, named for The Bonnet, a cave in the area, shaped like an old woman's bonnet.

Bonnie Vale

Locality and beach on Port Hacking between Maianbar and Bundeena.

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Bonnyrigg

Western residential suburb, named for the town in Midlothian, Scotland.

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Bonnyrigg Heights

Western residential suburb, named for the town in Midlothian, Scotland.

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Boronia Park

Nature reserve on the Hunters Hill peninsula.

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Bossley Park

Western residential suburb, named after John Brown Bossley. It is now a centre of Sydney's Assyrian community.

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Botanica

A new suburb, built on the site of Lidcombe hospital which was established on over 500 hectares of farming land in 1893.

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Botany

Industrial and residential suburb on the northern shore of Botany Bay, immediately east of Sydney Airport. Originally seen as a country retreat, it saw industry flourish in the post-Second World War era.

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Kamay Botany Bay National Park

National park on northern (La Perouse) and southern (Kurnell) headlands of Botany Bay. The park takes in land set aside in 1899 for public recreation at Captain Cook's landing place.

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Bow Bowing

South-western residential suburb. Originally planned as a Housing Commission suburb in 1976, it was finally built by a private developer in the 1990s.

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Bowen Mountain

Township in foothills of Blue Mountains, south of Bells Line of Road.

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Box Hill

North-western rural suburb. The area takes its name from either a stand of box trees that were once in the area or the fact that in the 19th century there were hunting boxes built on the tops of hills in this area.

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Bradbury

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South-western residential suburb, which remained rural until the 1960s when suburban development began to displace dairy farms. It includes Sherwood Hills model estate.

Bradbury Park

Park adjacent to Sherwood Hills estate, Campbelltown.

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