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Boundary stone - Moore Park South 2007

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Boundary stone - Moore Park South 2007

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Rickwood, Peter

Peter Rickwood is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at UNSW and President of the Blue Mountains Historical Society Inc.

Sydney's Boundary Markers

When Sydney was declared a town, Governor Bourke had eight stones erected to mark the boundaries. Less than a decade later, Governor Gipps declared Sydney to be a city, marking out the boundaries of the 1842 wards with a series of cast iron posts. Where are those early markers now?

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Moore Park

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Large area of parklands in inner south-east, also the location of the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney Football Stadium, and the former showgrounds, now an entertainment precinct.