Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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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Bickley Vale

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Tharawal and Gundungurra country, the area that became Bickley Vale was granted to John Macarthur in 1823, and subdivided into small farms in the 1880s. Much of it remains forest, with few houses.