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West Lindfield Locality
West Pennant Hills Suburb
West Pymble Suburb
West Ryde Suburb
West Ward Kogarah Locality
Western Sydney Region
Westgate Locality
Westleigh Suburb
Westmead Suburb
Westmead Speedway Sporting venue
Wetherill Park Suburb
Whalan Suburb
Whale Beach Suburb
Wheeler Heights Suburb
White Bay Power Station Industrial site
White City Sporting venue
Whitley Park Park or open space
Wilberforce Suburb
Wiley Park Suburb
William Howe Reserve Park or open space
William Street Dairy Farm
Willmot Suburb
Willoughby Suburb
Willoughby Bay Locality
Willoughby East Suburb
Willoughby local government area Region
Wills Ground Sporting venue
Wilson Park Wentworth Falls Park or open space
Wincanton estate Estate
Windsor Suburb
Windsor Downs Suburb
Windsor Downs Nature Reserve Reserve
Wingala Locality
Winmalee Suburb
Winston Hills Suburb
Wisemans Ferry Suburb
Wisemans Ferry Cemetery Cemetery or crematorium
Wivenhoe estate Estate
WM Ford's boatyard Industrial site
Wolli Creek Suburb
Wollstonecraft Suburb
Woodbine Suburb
Woodbine Estate Estate
Woodcroft Suburb
Woodford Suburb
Woodley's boatyard Industrial site
Woodpark Suburb
Woollahra Suburb
Woollahra local government area Region
Woollahra Park Park or open space

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West Lindfield

Neighbourhood about one kilometre south west of Killara.

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Locality

West Pennant Hills

North-western residential suburb. Timber-getting began in the area in the 1820s, with orchards and dairy farms later being established.

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Suburb

West Pymble

Northern residential suburb bordering on Lane Cove River bushland. About 200 war service homes were built there after the Second World War.

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West Ryde

North-western residential suburb which began to be subdivided after the building of the railway line from Homebush to Hornsby in 1886. It is the site of Ryde Pumping Station, the largest water pumping station in Australia.

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West Ward Kogarah

Alternative name for Oatley before the area became a suburb in its own right. The Oatley area occupies the south-west portion of the Kogarah Municipality.

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Western Sydney

Large region in Sydney's west comprising eleven local government areas and home to more than 1.5m Sydneysiders.

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Region

Westgate

Locality along Parramatta Road adjacent to Annandale and Stanmore.

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Westleigh

North-western residential suburb surrounded on three sides by bushland. Opened for residential development in the 1960s, it is named for its location west of Thornleigh.

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Westmead

Suburb on the Parramatta River, formerly the western part of the domain of Government House at Parramatta. It is now the site of major public hospitals for adults and children.

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Westmead Speedway

Racing car circuit at Cumberland Oval Parramatta. It is now the site of Westmead Hospital.

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Sporting venue

Wetherill Park

Western residential and industrial suburb, named after a businessman who offered land to the New South Wales government for a park in the 1880's. It lies on the southern border of Prospect Reservoir.

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Whalan

Western residential suburb, part of the Mount Druitt housing development of the 1960s and 1970s. It was named for James Whalan, who was granted land in the area in 1831.

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Whale Beach

Small far north-eastern beachside suburb. Residential subdivision began there in 1919.

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Wheeler Heights

North-eastern residential suburb. After being declared a suburb in 1977 and downgraded to a locality in 1984, it regained suburb status in 2011.

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White Bay Power Station

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Heritage listed former coal-fired power station at White Bay, Rozelle, which operated from 1917 to 1983.

Industrial site

White City

Paddington amusement park designed as a white city with mountains of snow. It had Australia's biggest scenic railway and merry-go-round and closed in 1916. The White City Stadium, located at the White City Tennis Club, was built on the site in 1922. Once an iconic part of Sydney's sporting life, the property fell into disrepair and was sold by Tennis NSW in 2005.

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Whitley Park

Reserve on the Great Western Highway between Blackheath and Katoomba.

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Park or open space

Wilberforce

North-western residential and rural suburb on northern bank of Hawkesbury River, named after the British leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. It was one of the five towns named in 1810 by Governor Macquarie. In 1829 the name for the area used by the local Aboriginal people was recorded as being Wangie.

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Wiley Park

South-western residential suburb between Punchbowl and Lakemba. It was named for a reserve bequeathed to local residents by J.V. Wiley in 1906.

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William Howe Reserve

Bushland reserve in the Camden area.

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William Street Dairy

Dairy, with 8 stalls for cows, in Darlinghurst until the 1880s.

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Farm

Willmot

Western residential suburb established in 1971 as part of the Mount Druitt housing development. It is named after the first President of Blacktown Shire Council

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Willoughby

Lower north shore residential suburb, possibly named by Surveyor-General Sir Thomas Mitchell after Sir James Wiloughby Gordon, under whom he had served in the Peninsular War. It is the site of the Channel Nine studio and transmission tower, and of an incinerator designed by Walter Burley Griffin.

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Willoughby Bay

Locality at the south-western end of Long Bay, Middle Harbour

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Willoughby East

Lower north shore residential suburb, possibly named by Surveyor-General Sir Thomas Mitchell after Sir James Wiloughby Gordon, under whom he had served in the Peninsular War.

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Willoughby local government area

Small and affluent area of 23 square kilometres on the mid north shore, part of the tradtional lands of the Cammeraygal people, governed by Willoughby Council. Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of NSW from 1828 to 1855, named the area after his former superior officer, Sir James Willoughby Gordon.

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Wills Ground

Sportsground by the Cooks River on Wardell Road in Earlwood. It was developed in 1921 by Anthony Hordern & Sons for the use of employees and known as the Hordernian Sports Ground.

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Wilson Park Wentworth Falls

A reserve situated in Wentworth Falls and bounded by Falls Road and Jamison Creek.

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Wincanton estate

Estate and grand house with frontage on Wolli Creek and the Cooks River which was first subdivided into 71 small farms and villa sites in 1860.

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Estate

Windsor

North-western town on the Hawkesbury River, named after Windsor in England. It was one of the five towns named in 1810 by Governor Macquarie and contains many heritage-listed buildings. In 1829 Rev John McGarvie recorded the local Aboriginal people's name for the area was Bulyayorang.

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Windsor Downs

North-western residential suburb on southern edge of Windsor, designated as a suburb in 1991. As well as a residential subdivision, it is the site of a nature reserve on land donated by the Angliss Meat Company.

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Windsor Downs Nature Reserve

Nature reserve near Rickards Road, Agnes Banks, to protect the unusual sand deposits in the district so as to facilitate research on ecological change and threatened species.

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Reserve

Wingala

Locality between Dee Why and North Curl Curl

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Winmalee

Lower Blue Mountains residential suburb. Its present name dates from 1972 and is said to mean "in a northerly direction". It was badly affected by the 2013 bushfires.

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Winston Hills

Residential suburb north-west of Parramatta, between Toongabbie Creek and the M2 motorway. Developed largely during the 1960s, it was named after British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

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Wisemans Ferry

Far northern village on the Hawkesbury River. The ex-convict ferryman Solomon Wiseman (1778-1838) was known as the 'King of the Hawkesbury' and two ferries still operate there. The local Aboriginal name for this spot, recorded in 1829 by the Reverend John McGarvie, was 'Woolloomoorang'.

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Wisemans Ferry Cemetery

Also known as Laughtondale Cemetery, the burial ground includes the grave of Peter Hibbs, a First Fleeter, his wife Mary who came to Sydney in the Second Fleet, as well as some of the area's other pioneering families.

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Cemetery or crematorium

Wivenhoe estate

Large land grant at Narellan made to Reverend William Cowper in 1812 and subsequently developed by the family into a farm, and parkland estate.

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WM Ford's boatyard

Early shipbuilding yard at Berrys Bay.

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Wolli Creek

Southern suburb with an industrial heritage now being redeveloped as a residential and commercial centre. It was separated from Arncliffe in 2002.

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Wollstonecraft

Harbourside north shore residential suburb. It is named for Edward Wollstonecraft, nephew of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and cousin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

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Woodbine

South-western residential suburb, named after an early homestead in the area belonging to the Payten family. Its streets are named after Sydney beaches.

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Woodbine Estate

Estate at Concord established on a land grant made to Isaac Nichols in 1797.

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Woodcroft

Western residential suburb built on the site of the former State Brickworks. It was formally recognized as a suburb in 1996.

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Woodford

Blue Mountains village between Springwood and Wentworth Falls. It was named after the residence of jeweller Alfred Fairfax.

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Woodley's boatyard

Early shipbuilding yard at Berrys Bay.

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Woodpark

Small western residential suburb. It was assigned suburb status in 1994.

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Woollahra

Inner-eastern suburb characterised by its tree-lined streets of heritage buildings and village-style commercial centre, relatively untouched by major development.

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Woollahra local government area

Wealthy and densely populated area of 12 square kilometres in the eastern suburbs, part of the traditional lands of the Cadigal people, stretching along the south-eastern shore of the harbour. Its name, believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning 'lookout', comes from the 1856 Point Piper mansion of Daniel Cooper.

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Woollahra Park

Park and sporting facilities fronting O'Sullivan Road, Rose Bay

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