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Bradfield Park Milsons Point Entity
Bradfield Park Migrant Hostel Entity
Breakfast Point Entity
Brickfield Hill Entity
Brickfields ground Entity
Brighton racecourse Entity
Brighton-Le-Sands Entity
Brimbecomb's Dairy Entity
Bringelly Entity
British Motor Works Entity
Broadway Entity
Broadway shopping centre Entity
Bronte Entity
Bronte Baths Entity
Bronte Park Entity
Brooklyn Entity
Brookvale Entity
Brookvale brickworks Entity
Brookvale Bus Depot Entity
Brookvale Park Entity
Brookvale Union Brewery Entity
Brownlow Hill Entity
Brush Farm Entity
Bullaburra Entity
Bullock's Brick and Pipe Works Entity
Bundeena Entity
Bungan Beach Entity
Bungarribee Entity
Bunnerong Cemetery Entity
Burraneer Entity
Burwood Entity
Burwood Heights Entity
Burwood North Entity
Busby Entity
Bushell's tea factory Entity
Cabarita Entity
Cabbage Tree Hill Farm Entity
Cabramatta Entity
Cabramatta Migrant Hostel Entity
Cabramatta West Entity
Cahill expressway Entity
Cambridge Gardens Entity
Cambridge Park Entity
Camden Entity
Camden Airport Entity
Camden Park Entity
Camden Park Estate Entity
Camden South Entity
Camden West Entity
Camellia Entity

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Bradfield Park Milsons Point

Park adjacent to Milsons Point railway station.

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Bradfield Park Migrant Hostel

Migrant hostel established on a former RAAF training camp in Lindfield.

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Breakfast Point

Western suburb on southern shore of Parramatta River. Much of it is built on the site of the former AGL Mortlake gasworks.

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Brickfield Hill

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Area south of early Sydney which was used for brickmaking from the start of settlement and subsequently developed into a commercial area. It remained a distinct locality until the 1970s.

Brickfields ground

Area in present-day Surry Hills, used for boxing matches and cockfights in early 19th century.

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Brighton racecourse

Racecourse in Rockdale where pony racing was held in the early twentieth century.

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Brighton-Le-Sands

Southern residential suburb on the western shore of Botany Bay, named for the English resort by tramway entrepreneur and developer Thomas Saywell. Development followed the construction of the railway to Hurstville and a tramline from Rockdale to the beach at Brighton.

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Brimbecomb's Dairy

Dairy in Balgowlah.

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Bringelly

South-western rural village and locality on the Northern Road between Penrith and Camden, whose early settlers included Judge Advocate Ellis Bent, Assistant Surgeon D'Arcy Wentworth and Superintendent of Convicts William Hutchinson. Legendary 'Wild Colonial Boy' Jack Donohoe was shot dead there in 1830.

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British Motor Works

Car assembly factory built on the Victoria Park racecourse site at Zetland, and operating from 1950 until 1975.

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Broadway

Street at the western edge of Sydney's central business district which gives its name to the locality around it.

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Broadway shopping centre

Shopping centre occupying one of two former Grace Bros department store buildings dating from 1923.

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Bronte

Eastern beachside suburb, between Tamarama and Clovelly. Its name comes from Bronte House and its estate, whch was most likely named after the British naval hero Lord Nelson, who was created Duke of Bronte by the King of Naples in 1799.

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Bronte Baths

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Ocean baths at Bronte Beach.

Bronte Park

Popular picnic spot behind Bronte Beach.

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Brooklyn

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Far northern suburb on the Hawkesbury River. The Geographical Names Board of New South Wales has accepted that Brooklyn was so named because the Union Bridge Company of New York, built both the New York Brooklyn Bridge and the first railway bridge across the Hawkesbury River. However the bridge in New York was built by a different company, the 'New York Bridge Company' and the area was called Brooklyn by at least 1883 when the land was subdivided and sold, well in advance of the construction of the planned bridge. Many historians believe it more likely that the area was named Brooklyn after the borough in New York because of its proximity to Long Island in the Hawkesbury River.

Brookvale

Suburb in Sydney's northern beaches region which was home to Chinese and Italian market gardens. These were gradually replaced by industrial and residential development in the postwar period, when it was selected in the Cumberland Planning Scheme as the main area for industrial zoning in Warringah.

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Brookvale brickworks

Brickworks using clay from quarries on Beacon Hill which became a medium density housing development after its closure in 1996.

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Brookvale Bus Depot

Main bus depot on the northern beaches, established after the tram system was closed in that area in 1939.

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Brookvale Park

Park opposite site of old Warringah Council Chambers which contains Brookvale Oval, home to Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Rugby League Club.

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Brookvale Union Brewery

Trade union-backed brewery that produced union pilsener and honey stout for sale to trade union clubs, but was unable to compete with market domination of Toohey's and Tooth's.

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Brownlow Hill

Estate at Camden granted to Alexander Macleay in 1827 and later owned by generations of the Downes family. The house, outbuildings and garden are listed on the NSW Heritage Register.

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Brush Farm

Farm in the Ryde area granted to Zadoc Pettit and Thomas Bride in 1794 and later acquired by William Cox and then owned by Gregory Blaxland. Blaxland built Brush Farm House and successfully grew hops and grapes on his land.

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Bullaburra

Small Blue Mountains town, with its name meaning 'blue sky' or 'fine weather'. Sir Henry Parkes had a residence there in the nineteenth century.

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Bullock's Brick and Pipe Works

Manufacturer of fire bricks and pipes at Asquith, forced to close because of Depression.

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Bundeena

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Village on the southern shore of Port Hacking, surrounded by the Royal National Park. Engravings by the Dharawal people can be found at Jibbon Head.

Bungan Beach

Beach south of Bungan Head, near Newport and Mona Vale..

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Bungarribee

Western residential suburb named after the property granted to John Campbell in the 1820s. Built on land used by the Overseas Telecommunications Commission from 1949 to the early 1990s, it was designated as a suburb in 2011.

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Bunnerong Cemetery

Cemetery built to take unclaimed remains from Devonshire Street Cemetery. Later merged with Botany Cemetery that is now part of the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park.

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Burraneer

Small southern residential suburb on peninsula overlooking Port Hacking. It was named in 1827 by surveyor Robert Dixon from an Aboriginal word "Booranea", meaning "point of the bay".

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Burwood

Inner-western suburb which is characterised by a mixture of residential, commercial and light industrial development. It contains many notable examples of Victorian and Federation architecture.

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Burwood Heights

Inner western residential suburb, on southern side of Hume Highway. It became a separate suburb in 2007.

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Burwood North

Northern part of the suburb of Burwood.

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Busby

South-western residential suburb in Liverpool local government area, named after pioneer viticulturalist James Busby. It was developed by the New South Wales Housing Commission in the 1960s and 70s.

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Bushell's tea factory

Tea blending and packing plant established in The Rocks from 1920 as headquarters for Bushells Ltd. Later transferred to Concord near the Parramatta River.

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Cabarita

Inner western suburb on Parramatta River. Formerly industrial, it has now become increasingly residential.

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Cabbage Tree Hill Farm

Land granted to James Jenkins at present-day Warriewood 1824-25.

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Cabramatta

South-western suburb which began as an agricultural township. It evolved into one of Sydney's most multicultural suburbs after the Second World War when it was settled by successive waves of European and Asian migrants.

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Cabramatta Migrant Hostel

Hostel for immigrants, in Fairfield local government area, leading many Vietnamese to settle there since 1970s.

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Cabramatta West

South-western residential suburb, separated from Cabramatta in 1991.

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Cahill expressway

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Overhead road that crosses Circular Quay above the elevated railway line.

Cambridge Gardens

Small western residential suburb east of The Northern Road. It was separated from Cambridge Park in 1981.

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Cambridge Park

Western residential suburb, on land granted to Phillip Parker King in 1831 and named after the Duke of Cambridge, a friend of the King family. It was subdivided into farmlets in 1884.

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Camden

Suburb situated on the floodplain of the Nepean River, on the traditional land of the Dharawal people. It was shaped by its landed gentry from the time of John Macarthur's original land grant in 1805, until the Macarthur family influence faded in the 1950s.

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Camden Airport

Airport used for flying training, charter, maintenance, gliding and ballooning. Originally the private airfield for the Macarthur family, it was requisitioned by the Commonwealth in 1939 and handed back for civil aviation in 1946.

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Camden Park

New residential subdivision south of Camden.

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Camden Park Estate

Estate established by John Macarthur on land granted from 1790, and still in the hands of his descendants.

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Camden South

Residential suburb of Camden two kilometres south of the town centre.

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Camden West

Locality on the Nepean River in south-western Sydney.

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Camellia

Western former industrial suburb on the southern bank of the Parramatta River, which is in the process of redevelopment. It contains the oldest identifiable European gravesite in NSW, that of Eleanor Magee and her daughter, who drowned in 1793.

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