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Chifley Square Entity
Chinatown Entity
Chinese Garden of Friendship Entity
Chippendale Entity
Chipping Norton Entity
Chiswick Entity
Chullora Entity
Church Hill Entity
Church Point Entity
Circular Quay Entity
Clanville Estate Entity
Claremont Meadows Entity
Clarendon Entity
Clareville Entity
Claymore Entity
Cleland Park Entity
Clemton Park Entity
Clifton Gardens Entity
Clifton Lodge Entity
Clontarf Entity
Clontarf marina Entity
Clontarf Pleasure Grounds Entity
Clontarf Reserve Entity
Clovelly Entity
Clyde Entity
Clyde Oil Refinery Entity
Coasters Retreat Entity
Cobbitty Entity
Colebee Entity
Coleman Park Entity
Colindia Estate Entity
Collaroy Entity
Collaroy Plateau Entity
College Green Estate Entity
Collingridge Point Entity
Colyton Entity
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation factory Entity
Como Entity
Como West Entity
Concord Entity
Concord Oval Entity
Concord West Entity
Condell Park Entity
Connells Point Entity
Coogee Entity
Cook + Phillip Park Entity
Cooper Estate Bellevue Hill Entity
Cooper Park Entity
Cornwallis Entity
Coronation Bay Entity

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Chifley Square

Pedestrian plaza at the corner of Hunter and Elizabeth Streets, Sydney

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Chinatown

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The cultural centre of Sydney's Chinese community. Between 1909 and 1915 the Council built a new market complex at the head of Darling Harbour. Chinese traders and importers rented market space and stores, shops and restaurants followed. Rooms above these shops sometimes became home for the Chinese traders and for retired gardeners who were unable to return home. The precinct became run down by the mid 20th century; the numbers of Chinese dwindled and the markets moved out of the city. Chinatown was refurbished in the 1980s.

Chinese Garden of Friendship

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Tranquil Chinese garden that was a gift to Sydney from the city of Guangzhou, the region in southern China where most of Sydney's early Chinese came from.

Chippendale

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Inner-city suburb on the land of the Gadigal people which was developed for farming and industry with dense, working-class housing during the nineteenth century, now undergoing gentrification.

Chipping Norton

Suburb to the east of Liverpool named for the homestead of William Alexander Long, who had lived in the market town near Oxford in England. Since 1977, areas formerly used for sand mining have been rehabilitated as the Chipping Norton Lakes.

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Chiswick

Inner western residential suburb. Named after a village on the River Thames west of London, it is surrounded on three sides by the Parramatta River and Abbotsford and Five Dock Bays.

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Chullora

Western industrial suburb, named for the Aboriginal word for 'flour'. The 200 hectare Chullora Railway Workshops were established there in the 1920s.

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Church Hill

Hill above the western side of Sydney Cove where St Patrick's Catholic Church, the Scots Kirk and St Philip's Anglican Church are located.

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Church Point

North-eastern residential suburb at southern end of Pittwater. It was originally known as Chapel Point because it was the site of a Wesleyan Chapel built in 1872.

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Circular Quay

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Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.

Clanville Estate

400 acres granted to Daniel Mathew in 1819 which formed the basis of the suburb of Roseville.

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Claremont Meadows

Western residential suburb adjacent to Western Sydney University Penrith campus. Built on land granted to Mary O'Connell (née Bligh) in 1810, it was opened up as a housing estate in 1984.

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Clarendon

North-western semi-rural suburb lying between Richmond RAAF base and Windsor. It was the name of William Cox's homestead, after an estate in England.

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Clareville

North-eastern residential suburb bordered by Avalon Beach, Bilgola Plateau and Newport.

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Claymore

South-western residential suburb. The majority of its homes were built by the New South Wales Housing Commission, with the first residents arriving in 1978.

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Cleland Park

Reserve bounded by Hampden Road, Barton Road and Thompson Avenue in Artarmon.

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Clemton Park

South-western residential suburb. Its name derives from wealthy resident Frederick Moore Clements, seller of 'Clements Tonic' health restorer.

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Clifton Gardens

Harbourside locality on the eastern side of Mosman.

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Clifton Lodge

Aged care centre at Crows Nest run by the Sydney City Mission.

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Clontarf

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Residential suburb on the northern shore of Middle Harbour, between Seaforth and Balgowlah Heights. In 1868 it was the site of an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria's son, Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh.

Clontarf marina

Berth and slipway services for some of Sydney's wealthy mariners.

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Clontarf Pleasure Grounds

Popular amusement venue in the late nineteenth century where Sydneysiders could travel by ferry to enjoy games, dancing and picnics. In 1868 it was the scene of the attempt on the life of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.

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Clontarf Reserve

Reserve on the shore of Middle Harbour in Holmes Avenue and Sandy Bay Road, Clontarf.

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Clovelly

Eastern residential suburb on the coast between Bronte and Coogee, which was subdivided from 1909. Its beach, at the end of a long narrow bay, is small and picturesque.

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Clyde

Western industrial and residential suburb between Auburn and Granville, named after the river that runs through Glasgow. It was declared a separate suburb in 2007.

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Clyde Oil Refinery

Crude oil refinery established in the 1920s. Processing will cease there in 2013 and it will become a fuel import facility.

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Coasters Retreat

Village on western shore of Pittwater. Its homes can only be reached by water, or on foot through Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.

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Cobbitty

Far south-western semi-rural suburb. It is the site of Camden Aerodrome.

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Colebee

North-western residential suburb. It is named after the first Aboriginal person in Australia to be given a land grant by Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

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Coleman Park

A reserve bounded by Georges Avenue, Joseph Street. Leila Street and Notting Hill Road, Lidcombe.

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Colindia Estate

Large estate at Neutral Bay subdivided in the early twentieth century.

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Collaroy

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Northern residential beach suburb. It is named after a coastal steamer which ran aground north of Long Reef in 1881.

Collaroy Plateau

Northern residential suburb separated from Collaroy in 2011. It was previously made a suburb in 1977 but gazetted as a locality again in 1984.

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College Green Estate

Subdivision of a swampy area at Fairy Bower, now a residential precinct.

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Collingridge Point

On the western shore of Berowra Creek. Named for local artist George Collingridge (1848-1931).

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Colyton

Western residential suburb on eastern edge of St Marys. William Cox Jr, son of the road builder, took the name of his wife's home town in Devon, England for his estate in 1819.

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Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation factory

Aircraft manufacturing factory established at Lidcombe during World War II.

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Como

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Residential suburb on the southern shore of the Georges River, east of the Woronora River. Named after the lake in Italy, it grew from the camp set up for the building of the Illawarra rail line in the 1880s.

Como West

Locality between Bonnet Bay and Como.

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Concord

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Inner-western residential suburb characterised by a large number of public parks. It was named after the town in Massachusetts by Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose, who had served there during the American War of Independence.

Concord Oval

Oval seating 20,000 built in 1987 for the Rugby Union World Cup match.

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Concord West

Inner-western residential suburb. Funds left by the philanthropist Thomas Walker and his daughter Eadith led to the establishment of hospitals along the Parramatta River, including Concord Repatriation General Hospital.

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Condell Park

Western residential suburb. It was granted to Ouseley Condell in 1830.

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Connells Point

Southern residential suburb projecting into the Georges River. It was named after merchant and local landowner John Connell.

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Coogee

Eastern beachside suburb which has long been a destination for seaside recreation for Sydneysiders and tourists. Its name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning 'stinking place', probably from the smell of rotting seaweed washed up on the beach.

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Cook + Phillip Park

Two parks designated as Crown Land for recreation in 1878 which were combined into one water world in 1998. The park comprises swimming pools, the Yurong Water Garden and the pools of reflection on College Street, which act as major structural elements to balance the weight of the roof of the pools below.

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Cooper Estate Bellevue Hill

Leasehold estate of 1130 acres acquired in 1827 by Cooper & Levy when Captain John Piper got into financial difficulty. It was eventually controlled by Daniel Cooper and then his nephew of the same name before being converted to freehold in the 1880s and the estate broken up.

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Cooper Park

Gully previously owned by Sir William Cooper which became public land in 1885.

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Cornwallis

North-western rural locality on southern bank of Hawkesbury River near Windsor.

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Coronation Bay

Bay on the Georges River between Green Point and Caravan Head.

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