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Albion
Governor Phillip's intended name for Sydney. In fact he did not use it.
He headed his earliest despatches from "Sydney Cove" and after
17 June 1790 he wrote "Sydney".
Chisholm, Alec H.(ed), John White: Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, Sydney, 1962, pp.140, 257.
Wells, William Henry, A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies, Sydney, 1848, p.383.
Bedlam
Now called Callan Park, the Sydney suburb.
Raymond, James, New South Wales Calender and General Post Office Directory 1832, Sydney, 1832, p.75-6.
Blackwattle Swamp
Now called Wentworth Park in the Sydney suburb of Glebe.
Solling, Max and Reynolds, Peter, Leichhardt:On The Margins of the City, St. Leonards, 1997, pp.28, 64.
Bunker's Hill
An alternative name for Sydney's Flagstaff Hill after the Battle of Bunker's
Hill which began the American War of Independence.
Stephensen, P.R., The History and Description of Sydney Harbour, Adelaide, 1966, p.159.
Cattle Point
So called because Sydney's first cattle were landed here in 1788. Now called
Bennelong Point, the site of the Opera House.
Turnbull, Lucy Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.276.
Church Hill
Near the junction of York and Margaret Streets in Sydney; so named for the Scots Curch and St Philips Anglican Church established there.
Maclehose, J., Maclehose's picture of Sydney and strangers' guide in New South Wales for 1839, Sydney, 1839, map.
Cockle Bay Point
This was where the first of Sydney's windmills were built in the late 1790s
so it became Millers Point.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.237.
Cookle Bay
This name now designates the southern extremity of Darling Harbour but,
till Governor Darling, it was used for the whole of Darling Harbour.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.312.
Devine's Farm
Now the Sydney suburb of New town.
Anderson, Ken, Sydney's Suburbs How and why they were named, Kenthurst, 1989, p.59.
Epping Racecourse
Now called Harold Park, the Sydney suburb.
Solling, Max and Reynolds, Peter, Leichhardt:On The Margins of the City, St. Leonards, 1997, p.205.
Fort Phillip
This fort was constructed on Observatory Hill by Governor King after the Vinegar Hill rebellion. It was dismantled by Macquarie.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.237.
Gallows Hill
The first man was hanged here in Sydney near the corner of present-day
Harrington and Essex streets , in February 1788.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.60.
Garden Cove
Renamed Woolloomooloo by the first European landowner there, Commissary
General John Palmer; also known as Palmer's Cove.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.349.
Martin, A. E., One thousand and more place names in New South Wales, Sydney, 1943.
Go-down
A 19th century expression for a warehouse, it was a name for Campbell's Cove in Sydney, named after the merchant Robert Campbell.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.233.
Grose Farm
Now the site of the University of Sydney.
Townsend, R.D., Rambles in New South Wales : the XYZ letters, Sydney, 1996, pp.53, 116.
Henrietta Town
So named after Governor Macquarie's wife, now known as the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst.
Reed, A.W., Place-names of New South Wales : Their Origins and Meanings, Sydney, 1969, p.49.
Hungry Mile
An area of Sydney's wharves, on Hickson Road on the eastern side of Darling
Harbour, so called because of the number of unemployed men seeking jobs
there.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.163.
Hungry Point
Now called Shell Cove in Sydney Harbour.
Reed, A..W., Place-names of New South Wales : Their Origins and Meanings, Sydney, 1969, p.73.
Jack the Miller's Point
Now called simply Millers Point. Jack Leighton had a mill there.
Martin, A. E., One thousand and more place names in New South Wales, Sydney, 1943.
Kangaroo Grounds
The name given by the New South Wales Corps to what became Sydney's Glebe.
Australian Council of National Trusts, Historic Places of Australia, 2vols, Sydney and Melbourne, 1978, vol.1 p.214.
Military and Civil Cricket Ground
Earlier known as the Garrison Ground. It was officially named the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1894. The vocal support from soldiers in the nearby Victoria Barracks was so great that "barracking" entered the Australian language.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.395.
Nineteen Counties
Very roughly a semicircle of radius 250 km centred on Sydney. Maclehose
describes them on pp.137-49. There is a map in Roberts. They were classed
as the Settled Districts in Robertson's 1861 Land Acts.
Maclehose describes them on pp.137-49; There is a map in Roberts.
Maclehose, J, Maclehose's picture of Sydney and strangers' guide in New South Wales for 1839, Sydney, 1839 pp.137-49.
Roberts, Stephen H., The Squatting Age in Australia 1835-1847, Melbourne, 1964.
Officers' Racecourse
Now known as Hyde Park, Sydney.
MacAlister, Chas., Old Pioneering Days in the Sunny South, Goulburn, 1907, p.131.
Old Burial Ground
At the south west corner of the junction of Druitt and George streets in
Sydney.
Maclehose, J., Maclehose's picture of Sydney and strangers' guide in New South Wales for 1839, Sydney, 1839, map.
Palmer's Cove
The first European landowner there was Commissary General John Palmer who
renamed it Woolloomooloo; also known as Garden Cave.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.349
Martin, A. E., One thousand and more place names in New South Wales, Sydney, 1943.
Point Campbell
Named after Elizabeth Campbell, Governor Macquarie's wife. It became the
Sydney suburb of Potts Point named after an official of the Bank of New
South Wales.
Anderson, Ken, Sydney's Suburbs How and why they were named, Kenthurst, 1989, p.63.
Qeens Cross
Formally so named in 1897 but since 1905 it has been as Kings Cross.
Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia : in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol.5, p.194.
Rock Island
An alternative name for Pinchgut, now known as Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour.
Riviere, Marc Serge(ed.), Governor's Noble Quest : Hyacinthe de Bougainville's account of Port Jackson, 1825, Melbourne, 1999, p.260.
Ross's Farm
Now called Balmain, the Sydney suburb.
Australian Council of National Trusts, Historic Places of Australia, 2vols, Sydney and Melbourne, 1978, p.16.
Rozella Bay
So named from the many parrots there, now called White Bay near the Sydney suburb of Rozelle.
Australian Council of National Trusts, Historic Places of Australia, 2vols, Sydney and Melbourne, 1978, vol.2, p.22
Slaughterhouse Point
Now called Dawes Point in Sydney harbour, named after Lieutenanｔ William Dawes, 1762-1836.
Anderson, Ken, Sydney's Suburbs How and why they were named, Kenthurst, 1989, p.30.
Stink Bomb Bay
Now the Sydney suburb of Beverley Park.
Anderson, Ken, Sydney's Suburbs How and why they were named, Kenthurst, 1989, p.15.
Strawberry Hills
Now the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills.
Anderson, Ken, Sydney's Suburbs How and why they were named, Kenthurst, 1989, p.72.
Tank Stream
The Tank Stream rose in Swampy ground on the
western side of Hyde Park and drained most of
Sydney's Central Business Distruct; it ran into Sydney Cove and is now underground.
Aplin, Graeme, Difficult infant : Sydney before Macquarie, Sydney, 1988, p.22.
Topowilliamstreet
A colloquial name for the Sydney suburb of Kings Cross.
Anderson, Ken, Sydney's Suburbs How and why they were named, Kenthurst, 1989, p.47.
Tumbulong
An alternative name for Sydney's Darling Harbour.
Clancy, Robert, The Mapping of Terra Australis, Sydney, 1995, p.179.
Valley of Lacrozia
A common name in the early 19th century for the eastern valley of Darlinghurst
running down to Rushcutters Bay.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.368.
Windmill Hill
Later called Flagstaff Hill, it is now called Observatory Hill in Sydney.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.237.
Windmill Ridge
The name for the ridge on which Victoria Street, Woolloomooloo, rests.
Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.350.
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