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Petersham Nurseries Cafe
Petersham may refer to: Places Australia * Petersham, New South Wales, Australia **Petersham railway station, a station serving Petersham, Australia **Petersham RUFC, a Rugby Club in Sydney, Australia **Petersham Girls High School, a school in Petersham, New South Wales, Australia * Electoral district of Petersham, an electoral district in New South Wales, Australia * Petersham Parish, Cumberland, a parish in New South Wales, Australia * Municipality of Petersham, a former government district in New South Wales *Randwick Petersham Cricket Club, a cricket club in Sydney, Australia *All Saints Anglican Church, Petersham, a church in Petersham, New South Wales, Australia United Kingdom * Petersham, London, United Kingdom **Petersham Parish Church, a church in Petersham, United Kingdom **Petersham Common, London, a park near Petersham, United Kingdom **Petersham Hole, a disaster in Petersham, United Kingdom **Petersham Ait, another name for Glovers Island, an island on the River Thame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petersham, New South Wales
Petersham is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Petersham is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Inner West Council. Petersham is known for its extensive Portuguese businesses, with many Portuguese shops and restaurants, despite only 156 (1.9%) of the population being born in Portugal. Petersham is bordered by the suburbs of Leichhardt to the north, Stanmore to the east, Marrickville to the south and Lewisham to the west. Taverner's Hill, named after Fred Taverner, is a locality in the western part of the suburb. History Early Before European settlement, the area now constituting Petersham was within the territory of the Indigenous Gadigal people. The area now occupying Petersham was first worked by Europeans in 1793. During a period of food shortage for the new colony, the Lieutenant-Governor Major Francis Grose dispatched convicts to the suburb's south-west to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |