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Bardwell Park Suburb
Bardwell Valley Suburb
Bareena Park Park or open space
Barra Brui Locality
Barracluff's Ostrich Farm Commercial organisation
Barrenjoey Locality
Bartlett Park Ermington Park or open space
Bass Hill Suburb
Bassett-Darley Estate Estate
Bates Drive Street or lane
Baulkham Hills Suburb
Bayside local government area Region
Bayview Suburb
Bayview Heights Suburb
Beacon Hill Suburb
Beaconsfield Suburb
Beaman Park Park or open space
Beaumont Hills Suburb
Beauty Point (Hornsby) Locality
Beauty Point (Mosman) Locality
Beecroft Suburb
Belfield Suburb
Bell Suburb
Bella Vista Suburb
Bellevue Estate Estate
Bellevue Hill Suburb
Belmore Suburb
Belmore Park Park or open space
Belmore Sportsground Park or open space
Belrose Suburb
Ben Buckler Locality
Benkennie Locality
Bennelong Park Putney Park or open space
Bennett's boot factory Industrial site
Berala Suburb
Berambing Suburb
Berkshire Park Suburb
Bernefield Estate Estate
Berowra Suburb
Berowra Heights Suburb
Berowra Market Place Market
Berowra Valley Bushland Park Park or open space
Berowra Valley Regional Park Park or open space
Berowra Waters Suburb
Berrilee Suburb
Beverley Park Suburb
Beverly Hills Suburb
Bexley Suburb
Bexley North Suburb
Bicentennial Park Park or open space

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Bardwell Park

Southern residential suburb, named after settler Thomas Bardwell whose grant was bounded by Wolli Creek. Building of the East Hills railway line in 1931 opened up the area for home sites.

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Suburb

Bardwell Valley

Southern residential suburb, named after settler Thomas Bardwell. It was formed in 1996 from parts of Arncliffe.

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Bareena Park

Recreational park containing a tennis club and bowling green in Balgowlah Heights.

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Park or open space

Barra Brui

Park and sports oval at St Ives.

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Locality

Barracluff's Ostrich Farm

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Farm in Dover Heights where ostriches were reared to provide feathers for the fashion industry.

Commercial organisation

Barrenjoey

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Isthmus and headland on the northern end of Sydney's northern beaches peninsula, which is the site of the Barrenjoey lighthouse.

Bartlett Park Ermington

Recreation reserve on Victoria Road which incorporates a putt-putt golf course.

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Bass Hill

Suburb within Bankstown local government area that became known as Bass Hill in October 1924. Prior to this it had been known as Upper Bankstown and before that Irish Town, due to the large number of Irish settlers in the area.

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Bassett-Darley Estate

Nine portions of land around Sydney inherited under entail by Katherine Wentworth from her father D'Arcy Wentworth, which became the subject of litigation and an Act of Parliament to remove the legal impediments to their sale.

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Estate

Bates Drive

Road off the Princes Highway at Sylvania that provides access to Jannali, Kareela, Como and Oyster Bay. It opened in 1962.

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Street or lane

Baulkham Hills

North-western residential suburb in the Hills District, originally home to the Bidjigal people. The name is believed to come from Buckholm Hills in the Scottish county of Roxburgh, home of early settler Andrew McDougall.

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Bayside local government area

Area around Botany Bay, part of the traditional lands of the Cadigal, Gweagal and Bidjigal peoples, governed by Bayside Council. It was formed in 2016 by the merger of the Botany Bay and Rockdale local government areas. 

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Region

Bayview

Northern residential suburb on the southern shore of Pittwater. The name dates from 1882 when a post office was opened.

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Bayview Heights

Bayview is a northern suburb on the southern shore of Pittwater. The inland portion, on a plateau, is known as Bayview Heights.
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Beacon Hill

North-eastern residential suburb standing on high ground. The New South Wales Department of Lands built a trigonometric beacon here in 1881.

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Beaconsfield

Industrial and medium density residential suburb 5 kilometres south of Sydney, officially named in 1977 after British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, later Lord Beaconsfield. It is part of the Green Square district which is currently undergoing gentrification.

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Beaman Park

Reserve bounded by Wardell Rd, Vera Ave, Flinders Rd and Cooks River, Undercliffe.

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Beaumont Hills

A western suburb, formerly part of Kellyville, which was created as a separate suburb in 2001.

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Beauty Point (Hornsby)

Point on the western shore of Berowra Creek.

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Beauty Point (Mosman)

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Area of Mosman on Middle Harbour west of the Spit Bridge.

Beecroft

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Northern residential suburb in the Hornsby local government area, which developed on part of the former Field of Mars common. It grew from the 1880s with the building of the railway line from Strathfield to Hornsby.

Belfield

South-western residential, light industrial and commercial suburb subdivided and sold as home sites after the First World War, some for war service homes. Three streets in the area are named after troop ships of the period.

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Bell

Small far north-western rural village. Its railway station is the highest on the New South Wales TrainLink network.

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Bella Vista

North-western residential suburb, with a ribbon of light industrial, commercial and retail development in the Norwest Business Park along the Old Windsor Road. It is named after the homestead and farm of the Pearce family.

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Bellevue Estate

Real estate subdivision along Bellevue Road Bellevue Hill which was released between 1905 and 1913.

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Bellevue Hill

Affluent suburb overlooking the harbour five kilometres east of central Sydney. In the nineteenth century it was home to villas built by the colony's emerging plutocracy. Mass suburban development was helped by the extension of the tram line to Bondi Beach in 1914.

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Belmore

South-western suburb containing a mixture of residential, commercial and industrial developments. After the First World War, many returned servicemen settled there.

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Belmore Park

Park near Central Railway Station.

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Belmore Sportsground

Reserve in Tobruk Avenue Belmore.

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Belrose

North-eastern residential suburb. Its name is derived from two flowers, the Christmas Bell and the native rose.

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Ben Buckler

Locality on the peninsula at North Bondi. The name, a distortion of Benbecula, was given by Governor Macquarie who came from Benbecula in North Uist in the Hebrides, Scotland.

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Benkennie

A locality within the Camden local government area.

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Bennelong Park Putney

Park along the Putney foreshore of the Parramatta River, west of Kissing Point Bay

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Bennett's boot factory

Boot factory operating near Sydney Meat Preserving Works in Lidcombe in 1890.

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Industrial site

Berala

Closely settled suburb in Auburn local government area on what was once swampy land with abundant birdlife - the name is Aboriginal for 'duck'. Residential settlement grew with the opening of a new rail line in 1924.

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Berambing

Rural locality on Bells Line of Road.

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Berkshire Park

North-western semi-rural locality, named after a grant made to Richard Rouse in 1838. It contains a correctional facility, a nature reserve, a waste management centre and a racehorse education centre.

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Bernefield Estate

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Large estate on Cooks River Road (Princes Highway) at St Peters which was subdivided in 1895. Only a small part of Berne Street now remains as the estate was subsumed by a massive container terminal.

Berowra

Far northern suburb, much of which forms the Berowra Valley Regional Park. It grew quickly after the first major subdivisions of land in the 1950s.

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Berowra Heights

Far northern residential suburb, separated from Berowra in 1973.

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Berowra Market Place

Local shopping centre in Berowra.

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Market

Berowra Valley Bushland Park

Bushland park in northern Sydney absorbed by Berowra Valley Regional Park in 1997.

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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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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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