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Subdivision

Type - Subdivision
Balmain Shores
Bankstown Soldier Settlement Milperra
Campsie Park estate
Crown Estate
Denistone Estate
Fairview Estate
Glenelg Crescent estate
Greendale Park Estate
Greenway Estate
Harcourt Model Suburb
Heights of Manly
Highlands Estate
Hill Top Estate
Hilltop Estate
Kemp's Estate
Kent Farms
Kingsgrove Estate
Lockesley Mews
Malvern Hill Estate
Manly Estate
Manly Golf Links Estate
Marne Park Estate
Matraville Garden Village
Meriam Hill Estate
Narellan Gardens Estate
Narrabeen Heights Estate
Needham Estate
Nelsons Ridge
Neutral Heights
Outlook Estate
Park View Estate
Rosyth Estate
Ryde Heights
Ryde New Township Estate
Seldon Estate
Sherwood Hills
Silver Park estate
Somerset Park Estate
South Botany Estate
Tallwood Estate
Tramvale estate
Undercliffe Heights
Urara Estate
Vanceville Estate
Virginia Waters estate
Vivian's Subdivision

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Subdivision

Balmain Shores

Waterfront apartment development on site of former Balmain Power Station.

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Bankstown Soldier Settlement Milperra

Land bought by the New South Wales government and set aside for soldier settlement in April 1917.

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Campsie Park estate

Subdivision of wide streets and large blocks of land in 1885 at Campsie which had been named by Robert and Hugh Scott when they purchased the land in 1846.

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Crown Estate

Residential subdivision in Denistone East in 1928.

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Denistone Estate

Estate formed by the amalgamation of Brush Farm Estate and Porteous Mount which was subdivided in 1913.

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Fairview Estate

Residential subdivision of 1886 at Fairlight.

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Glenelg Crescent estate

Subdivision of Ballast Point, Balmain, which was a victim of the 1842 financial crash.

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Greendale Park Estate

Greenwich estate bounded by Gore Cove, Greenwich Road and a block beyond both Greendale and Glenview streets which was sold in 1885.

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Greenway Estate

Housing subdivision in Cherrybrook named for colonial architect Francis Greenway.

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Harcourt Model Suburb

Subdivision in 1890 for the suburb of Campsie in Sydney bounded by Railway Station, Beamish Road, and Cook's River which was to have had wide avenues and large blocks of land.

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Heights of Manly

Subdivision in Manly in 1880 on the upper part of Darley Road towards the Cardinal's Palace.

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Highlands Estate

Land subdivision in the Ryde area in 1905.

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Hill Top Estate

Subdivision in East Ryde which failed in 1929 when a projected railway was cancelled.

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Hilltop Estate

Housing subdivision in Roseville

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Kemp's Estate

Housing subdivision at Balgowlah Heights in 1922.

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Kent Farms

A subdivision of the former Campbelltown Common in the 1920s for small farms and orchards. The area became known as the Kent Farms, later Kent Lyn, and today's suburb of Kentlyn.

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Kingsgrove Estate

Land holding of the Blake family, in present-day Blakehurst, subdivided after Edward Blake's death in 1924.

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Lockesley Mews

Subdivision at Bradbury on land once occupied by dairy farms.

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Malvern Hill Estate

Residential estate which was formed early in the twentieth century when two large estates were subdivided. Designed to be a model garden suburb of broad streets, a covenant restricted construction to brick and tile single dwellings.

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Manly Estate

Subdivision in 1904 of land in the Fairlight area owned by Edwin Daintrey.

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Manly Golf Links Estate

Subdivision in 1922 of land adjacent to Manly Golf Club.

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Marne Park Estate

Subdivision in North Lidcombe which, in the 1920s, became a Soldier Settlement of almost 100 homes for the War Service Homes Commission.

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Matraville Garden Village

Garden village planned by the State Government in 1917 under the Returned Soldiers' Holdings Act with tenancy restricted to war-injured returned soldiers, sailors and war widows. Voluntary donations of both labour and building materials helped erect 93 homes and provided for a memorial reserve, parkland and sites for public buildings and churches but the scheme suffered mismanagement and corruption and by the 1970s most had been demolished.

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Meriam Hill Estate

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Residential and commercial subdivision made in 1888 on the eastern side of West Ryde railway station. The land had been part of the estate of John Blaxland. Often also referred to as Miriam Hill, even in the original advertisements for the subdivision.

Narellan Gardens Estate

The first subdivision, in 1990, in what is now the suburb of Narellan Vale, near Morshead Road.

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Narrabeen Heights Estate

Area of land at Cromer owned by David Moores which was subdivided and sold in 1910.

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Needham Estate

Subdivision in St Peters.

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Nelsons Ridge

Housing development 7 kilometres west of Parramatta along Greystanes Road.

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Neutral Heights

Large estate at Neutral Bay which was subdivided in the early twentieth century.

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Outlook Estate

Land subdivision in present-day Denistone of a portion of Chatham Farm, the original grant to William Broughton and others in 1795 in the Ryde area.

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Park View Estate

Real estate subdivision in east Roseville, advertised between 1910 and 1915, occupying the area of Moore Street and Addison and Duntroon Avenues.

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Rosyth Estate

Housing subdivision at Balgowlah Heights in 1918.

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Ryde Heights

Subdivision of part of the Ryedale Estate on the southern side of Blaxland Road between Benson Lane and Melville Street in 1909.

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Ryde New Township Estate

Subdivision of part of the Ryedale Estate in 1906 in the Falconer and Hermitage road area.

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Seldon Estate

Property subdivision of 60 acres on the western side of Greenwich Road which was divided into 80 allotments and sold between 1882 and the 1890s. The land had originally been granted to John Ford.

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Sherwood Hills

Subdivision at Bradbury designed as a model estate with no overhead power lines and covenants controlled the quality of buildings.

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Silver Park estate

Subdivision of land at Canterbury in the 1880s.

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Somerset Park Estate

Housing subdivision in the Narellan area.

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South Botany Estate

Estate created by Thomas Holt from a series of original grants between the Georges and Woronora rivers.

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Tallwood Estate

Estate on the border of Eastwood and Denistone subdivided in the late 1920s.

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Tramvale estate

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Short-lived subdivision at Marrickville adjacent to Sydenham Road between the Illawarra Railway and Victoria Road. Also known as Tram Vale Flats, it was named after the tramway that ran just to its west. The estate was established in 1881 on land reclaimed from Gumbramorra swamp, but after years of disastrous flooding because of the poor drainage, by the turn of the century the properties were resumed by the government, the land drained and the area designated as suitable for industrial development.

Undercliffe Heights

Estate at Neutral Bay which was subdivided inn the early twentieth century.

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Urara Estate

Estate at Neutral Bay subdivided in the early twentieth century.

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Vanceville Estate

Subdivision of land at Warrawee in 1877 into orchard and farm lots.

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Virginia Waters estate

Subdivision of part of the Lewisham Estate in the late nineteenth century.

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Vivian's Subdivision

Real estate subdivision in Manly in 1904 along Darley Road near Vivian Street in the area near the St Patrick's Estate. It was considered too far from the wharf and business area and was not initially successful.

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