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Suburb on lower north shore. It is divided between a leafy residential area on its eastern side and an increasingly high rise, commercial and industrial area to the west.

Remnant of original 57 hectare reserve including bushland with distinctive flora.

Racecourse where punters watched unregistered proprietary horse racing. The site is now part of Sydney airport.

Inner-western residential suburb named because of its location between Ashfield and Canterbury. It was previously known as Goodlet's Bush after early settler John Hay Goodlet.

South-western residential suburb. Part of the NSW Housing Commission's Green Valley development, it was named after the Ashcroft family, one of the pioneers of the district who gave land for the site.

Densely populated and highly multicultural inner western residential suburb. Early landholder Robert Campbell's father William was the laird of Ashfield in Scotland.

Northern suburb which combines remnant woodland with residential and industrial development. It was named in 1915 for British prime minister H.H. Asquith.

Oil terminal at White Bay, Balmain.

Industrial suburb in Western Sydney which grew around the railway from the 1870s onwards. Now one of Sydney's most multicultural suburbs due to postwar immigration, it is one of the main Arabic/Middle Eastern centres in Sydney.

Suburban botanic gardens, opened in 1977.

Home built in Bangalla Street Warrawee in a mix of Georgian Revival and Mediterranean styles which was popular before World War II, as home for Preston L. Gowing of Gowings department stores.

South-western semi-rural suburb. Its name came from the Austral Banking and Land Proprietary which donated land for a second school in the Hoxton Park area. The school was named for the company and the name came to be used for the area.

Locality to the west of Liverpool

North-eastern suburb, built on land granted in 1833 to Father Joseph Therry, Catholic chaplain. In 1921 the developer Arthur J. Small chose the name 'Avalon', the final resting place of the legendary King Arthur. Its name was changed to Avalon Beach in 2012.

Residential locality 35 kilometres north of Sydney within Pittwater local government area.

Communication centre which used a 20 kilowatt transmitter for overseas broadcasting and the wireless telephone service to Great Britain and Europe.

South-western rural suburb, named for free settler James Badgery who was granted land there by Governor Macquarie. It has been proposed as the site for a second Sydney airport since 1986.

North-eastern harbourside residential suburb, which remained semi-rural into the 1920s. It became more developed after the opening of the Spit Bridge and improvements to the tram service.