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Pitt Town, c1835

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Pitt Town, c1835

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[M Z/M2 811.1114/1835/2]

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Pitt Town

North-western semi-rural and residential suburb, north-east of Windsor. One of the five towns named by Governor Macquarie in 1810, it has many heritage buildings.

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Hawkesbury district

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river called it Dyarubbin.