Bringelly is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of

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, Australia. It is located on the Northern Road between Penrith and Camden. It has a public school. Bringelly is also the name of a local hill.

History

Bringelly was a name given to a district of Sydney in the early 19th century and later a parish of the County of Cumberland. The Parish of Bringelly also included the neighbouring suburbs of Greendale, Wallacia and Badgerys Creek. Robert Lowe was granted in the parish of Bringelly in 1812 and is believed to be the first British settler in the area. By 1818, most of the land had been granted and was being cleared for farms. The principal surgeon of New South Wales,

D'Arcy Wentworth D'Arcy Wentworth (14 February 1762 – 7 July 1827) was an Irish surgeon, the first paying passenger to arrive in the new colony of New South Wales. He served under the first seven governors of the Colony, and from 1810 to 1821, he was ''great ...

, received a grant in the area. Legend has it that

The Wild Colonial Boy "The Wild Colonial Boy" is a traditional anonymously penned Irish-Australian folk ballad which tells the story of a bushranger in early colonial Australia who dies during a gunfight with local police. Versions of the ballad give different names fo ...

Bold

Jack Donahue John Donahue (c. 1806 – 1 September 1830), also spelled Donohoe, and known as Jack Donahue and Bold Jack Donahue, was an Irish-born bushranger in Australia between 1825 and 1830. He became part of the notorious "Wild Colonial Boys". Early l ...

also used the suburb as a hideout and was eventually killed on Wentworth's property. Another property of note is Kelvin, also known as The Retreat, which was built in 1820 by

Thomas Laycock Thomas Laycock (1786 – 7 November 1823) was an English soldier, explorer, and later businessman, who served in North America during the War of 1812, but is most famous for being the first European to travel overland through the interior of ...

Jnr. A Georgian farmhouse, Kelvin is surrounded by a garden and is listed on the

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and the (now defunct)

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. ''Luddenham'' Post Office opened on 1 January 1857 and was renamed ''Bringelly'' in December 1863. Bringelly Public School opened in 1878. Local government came to the area in 1906 with the creation of the

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, covering the area from Hoxton Park west to the

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and south as far as

Narellan Narellan is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. Narellan is located 60 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Camden Council and is part of the Macarthur region. Narellan is known fo ...

. The Shire never thrived and when the

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amalgamated a number of local councils in 1948, it was divided amongst Penrith,

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, Campbelltown and

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. In the process, the suburb of Bringelly was split between Liverpool and Camden Councils and remains so to this day.

Aerotropolis

Bringelly is adjacent to Badgerys Creek, site of the future Western Sydney Airport. The NSW Government plans to build a new commercial centre in Bringelly's north, which is intended to emerge as the city's third commercial centre behind Sydney and

Parramatta Parramatta () is a suburb and major Central business district, commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district on the ban ...

. In March 2021, Premier

Gladys Berejiklian Gladys Berejiklian (born 22 September 1970) is an Australian former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021. Berejiklian became a member ...

announced that the new centre would be in honour of

Sydney Harbour Bridge The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge in Sydney, spanning Sydney Harbour from the central business district (CBD) to the North Shore. The view of the bridge, the harbour, and the nearby Sydney Opera House is widely regarded ...

engineer Dr John Bradfield. The name was chosen by a committee following a call for public submissions in 2020. Berejiklian said that "The name Bradfield is synonymous with delivering game-changing infrastructure". Bradfield was also the name of a suburb in Sydney's North Shore district between 1924 and 1977.

Population

In the 2016 Census, there were 2,507 people in Bringelly. 73.0% of people were born in Australia. 68.8% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Italian 4.9% and Arabic 4.7%. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 46.9%, Anglican 13.4% and No Religion 11.4%.

Heritage listings

Bringelly has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * 30 The Retreat:

Kelvin The kelvin, symbol K, is the primary unit of temperature in the International System of Units (SI), used alongside its prefixed forms and the degree Celsius. It is named after the Belfast-born and University of Glasgow-based engineer and ph ...

Notable residents

* Bold

(1806–1830), Australian bushranger *

(1786 –1823), English soldier, explorer, and later businessman *

(1762–1827), NSW Surgeon-general

Transport

Bringelly has reasonably easy road access to Penrith and

via The Northern Road and to

via Bringelly Road. The only public transport in the area consists of bus routes 855 and 856 operated by

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, connecting Bringelly to Liverpool via Rossmore, Austral, Hoxton Park and Cartwright.

References

{{Sydney Camden suburbs Suburbs of Sydney Populated places established in 1812 1812 establishments in Australia City of Liverpool (New South Wales)