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Toongabbie
Toongabbie is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. One of the oldest suburbs in Sydney, Toongabbie is located approximately 30 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Toongabbie is split between the local government areas of the City of Parramatta, the City of Blacktown and Cumberland Council. The suburb is often locally referred to as "Toonie". Geography To the north across Old Windsor Road the next suburb is Winston Hills; to the east is Old Toongabbie; to the south-east, the next suburb (and railway station) is Pendle Hill; to the south is Girraween; to the south-west is Prospect; and to the west the next suburb (and railway station) is Seven Hills. History The traditional custodians of the land are the Dharug peoples. These peoples usually lived along the waterways. Plant and animals life was abundant in streams and bushland in the area now known as Toongabbie. Toongabbie is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Toongabbie
Old Toongabbie is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 29 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Parramatta. Old Toongabbie is noted for being the third post colonisation settlement, chosen for its location on a main waterway. Origin of the Suburb Name Toongabbie is derived from an Aboriginal word, reported as meaning ''place by the water'' or ''meeting by the water''. It was named in June 1792 after Governor Arthur Phillip asked the local Aboriginal people what they called the place. It is the oldest official use of an Aboriginal place-name – Parramatta (the Aboriginal place name) was founded earlier was first called ''Rose Hill''. “Old Toongabbie” became the name of the location of the original town (located next to Toongabbie Creek) as opposed to “Toongabbie” which was near to the Western Railway station. Part of the suburb later became known as Constitution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pendle Hill, New South Wales
Pendle Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Pendle Hill is located 29 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Cumberland Council and City of Parramatta and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. History Imagine a long time ago, back to when the whole of Sydney was trees and no large apartment buildings, shops or large homes, no trains. This was home to the Indigenous or Dharug peoples. Going forward in time, you can imagine Governor Arthur Phillip and his party in the pitch black (no streetlights or city lights), camping overnight on the banks of a creek (now Pendle Creek) on 25 April, 1788. The Colony was facing a food crisis in 1790 and things were deteriorating in 1793 with public farming crop failures. In August 1819, D’Arcy Wentworth was granted land to assist with food production to the Colony. European settlers commenced clearing of the land for farming purposes, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Hills, New South Wales
Winston Hills is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Winston Hills is located 28 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government areas of the City of Parramatta and The Hills Shire. Winston Hills is part of the Hills District region of Greater Western Sydney. History Winston Hills was originally part of the “Toongabbie” area. The traditional inhabitants of the land are thought to be originally the Dharug peoples, specifically the Toongagal clan. As the colony spread out, the Toongabbie area grew and was later divided up into separate suburbs. Winston Hills was named after Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874–1965) during World War II. With the name being preferred to ''Churchill Hills''. In the early days, this area was named Model Farms (a name retained in a locality of the suburb and local high school) as this was the area where a model farm was developed to show settlers the types of crops tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girraween, New South Wales
Girraween is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Girraween is located 30 km west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Cumberland Council and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. History Girraween is an Aboriginal word meaning ''place of flowers''. It was first inhabited by the Darug people. This area was part of the estate of D'Arcy Wentworth, who was honoured in the naming of the nearby suburb of Wentworthville.''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia , page 108 Demographics At the in Girraween, there were 6,256 people. Just over a third (34.2%) of people were born in Australia, with the top other countries of birth being India 34.9%, Sri Lanka 9.9%, Malta 2.0%, China 1.9% and New Zealand 1.1%. In Girraween, 75.9% of people spoke a language other than English at home. The other most common languages spoken were Tamil 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Hills, New South Wales
Seven Hills is a suburb in the Greater Western Sydney region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located North West of the Sydney central business district. Seven Hills is within the local government areas of the City of Parramatta and Blacktown City councils. Name The name 'Seven Hills' is thought to be affiliated with Matthew Pearce, a settler in Sydney who was granted 160 acres (65 ha.) of land in 1795. Pearce named his allotment Kings Langley Farm and in that lot, he could observe seven nearby hills. The "seven hills" observed by Pearce could possibly have been the surrounding areas, which are hilly and today have "hill" in their name, such as Castle Hill, Baulkham Hills, Rooty Hill, Prospect Hill, Beaumont Hills, Rouse Hill and Constitution Hill.Jack Brook ''The Seven Hills – A village divided, a suburb united'' 2004 Though the origin of the name of the suburb still remains undocumented. Furthermore, the name was frequently used by 1803 when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Western Sydney
Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is a large region of the metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia that generally embraces the north-west, south-west, central-west, far western and the Blue Mountains sub-regions within Sydney's metropolitan area and encompasses 11 local government areas: Blacktown, Blue Mountains, Camden, Campbelltown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Hawkesbury, Liverpool, Parramatta, Penrith and Wollondilly. It includes Western Sydney, which has a number of different definitions, although the one consistently used is the region composed of ten local government authorities, most of which are members of the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC). The NSW Government's Office of Western Sydney calls the region "Greater Western Sydney". Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity occurred in the Sydney metropolitan area from around 30,000 years ago. The Darug people lived in the area that was greater western Sydney b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospect, New South Wales
Prospect is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Prospect is located west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and a small part of Cumberland City Council, is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. One of the oldest suburbs in Sydney, Prospect takes its name from the prominent nearby landmark of Prospect Hill - from the top of which people could ''get a prospect of'' (see a great distance) the surrounding countryside. Initially a settlement for emancipated convicts, it later became a village. Since colonisation, settlers cleared larger areas of land to raise livestock, and to build churches, inns, schools, shops and a large reservoir. Naturalist Charles Darwin visited Prospect in January 1836, to observe the geology. History Prior to the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Prospect was inhabited by different groups of the Darug people including the Warmuli. The Aboriginals there were of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Parramatta
The Division of Parramatta is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. It was created in 1900 and was one of the List of Australian electorates contested at every election, original 65 divisions contested at the 1901 Australian federal election, first federal election. It is based in the western suburbs of Sydney. The current member, since the 2022 Australian federal election, 2022 federal election, is Andrew Charlton (politician), Andrew Charlton, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Parramatta is a diverse electorate with large Immigration to Australia, immigrant communities from Indian Australians, India and Chinese Australians, China, and has a higher than average university education rate according to the 2016 Australian census, 2016 census. At the time of the 2022 Australian federal election, 12% of Parramatta's population possessed Chinese ancestry. Geography Parramatta is based in the wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Winston Hills
Winston Hills is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Mark Taylor of the Liberal Party. It is an urban electorate in Western Sydney. History Winston Hills was created in a redistribution ahead of the 2023 election, largely replacing the abolished electorate of Seven Hills. Prior to its abolition, Seven Hills was represented by Mark Taylor of the Liberal Party. Taylor successfully transferred to Winston Hills at the 2023 election. Geography On its current boundaries, Winston Hills takes in the suburbs of Constitution Hill, Glenwood, Kings Langley, Lalor Park, Northmead, Old Toongabbie, Winston Hills and parts of Baulkham Hills, Blacktown, Parklea, Pendle Hill Pendle Hill is in the east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Brierfield, Clitheroe and Padiham. Its summit is above mean sea level. It gives its name to the Borough of Pendle. It is an isolated h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Parramatta
The City of Parramatta, also known as Parramatta Council, is a Local government in Australia, local government area located to the west and north-west of Sydney CBD in the Greater Western Sydney region. Parramatta Council is situated between the City of Ryde and Cumberland City Council, Cumberland, where the Cumberland Plain meets the Hornsby Plateau, approximately west of the Sydney central business district, in New South Wales, Australia. The city occupies an area of spanning across suburbs in Greater Western Sydney including the Hills District, New South Wales, Hills District, and a small section of Northern Sydney to the far north east of its area. According to the , City of Parramatta had an estimated population of . The city houses the Parramatta central business district which is one of the key suburban employment destinations for the region of Greater Western Sydney. History First incorporated on 27 November 1861 as the "Municipality of Parramatta", the first mayor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
