Bringelly () is a

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, in the state of

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. 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

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. 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-Australian surgeon and 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 ...

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

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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

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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 Shire of Nepean, covering the area from Hoxton Park west to the

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and south as far as

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

, site of the future

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. The

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planned 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

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. In March 2021,

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announced that the new centre would be in honour of

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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". In March 2023, the portion of Bringelly east of The Northern Road and north of Bringelly Road became part of the newly-gazetted suburb of Bradfield.

Population

In the 2021 Census, there were 2,433 people in Bringelly. 71.0% of people were born in Australia. 65.4% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 6.3% and Italian 4.7%. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 44.8%, No Religion 15.3% and Anglican 10.1%.

Heritage listings

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

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Notable residents

(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 Camden via The Northern Road and to

and the

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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

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