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Pymble

Suburb

Northern residential suburb named after free settler Robert Pymble (1788–1861) who acquired a land grant in 1823. Subdivision began in the early 1880s in anticipation of the building of the north shore railway line in 1890.

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Name
Commemorates
Pymble, Robert
Property
Administered by
Ku-ring-gai Council
Part of
Ku-ring-gai local government area
Type
Suburb

Pymble

CC BY-SA 2.0
by
Zeny Edwards
,
2010

Granted to Robert Pymble, a free settler from Hertfordshire, the area which was to become Pymble was farmland and orchards for most of the nineteenth century. Development followed the railway line, and Pymble became a desirable leafy suburb.

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