A'Becketts Creek is a

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and a northern

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of the Duck River and part of the

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catchment, in

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Geography

A'Becketts Creek is about long. Starting from its source, near the shopping centre at

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, its upper reaches have been

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and piped underground. It flows generally east northeast, then east, joining with Duck Creek at Clyde. to flow into the Duck River at Rosehill. In its lower reaches it is a

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. A'Becketts Creek forms part of the boundary of the suburbs of

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to the north, and the suburbs of Granville and Clyde to the south.

History

From ''circa'' 1860,

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commenced along A'Becketts Creek, adjacent to Harris Park. The site of the former Goodlet & Smith brickworks and pit at Holroyd is now a park and residential area. In 1943 A'Becketts Creek was the site of a famous murder, where a soldier murdered and dumped the body of a boy in the creek.

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