I am brand new in Sydney. How is Dundas Valley connected via public transport? Not great for Nightlife. Who lives here? Families with kids. The opinions expressed within this review are those of the individual and not those of Homely. Great for Easy access to sydney harbour through local boat ramps near by ,or by ferry Quick easy access to anywhere around Sydney-buses and trains to all major centres such as the city, Parramatta, Macquarie UNI , high schools, hospitals etc.
Great for Quick easy access to anywhere around Sydney-buses and trains to all major centres such as the city, Parramatta, Macquarie UNI , high schools, hospitals etc.
Not great for Busy with traffic like most central locations around Sydney. Professionals Retirees. Best rated streets in Dundas Valley. Cox Crs 4. Bain Pl 4. Unranked streets in Dundas Valley. The district now called Dundas continued to be known as the Field of Mars until 10 April , when its present name was substituted. In it was finally called Dundas Post Office. In it was determined a volcanic plug of columnar basalt found in the valley was suitable for road building and the Dundas Quarry known as the Pennant Hills Quarry was established.
The local government quarry operated until , when it was abandoned. In later years, it was filled and Sir Thomas Mitchell Reserve playing fields established. Kissing Point Road, which opened in , serviced the area. It was once a track made serviceable by William Cox who owned the Brush Farm Estate that encompassed much of the valley. The first Dundas council comprised of nine Aldermen elected on 18 May Their first official council meeting was held at Rydalmere Hall, Rydalmere, N.
It was located at Marsden Road, Dundas, N. About people attended the opening. In time, significant modifications to the building were made including an addition in the s and another addition on Marsden Road in In , the building was converted into townhouses.
The separation also led to the reconstitution of Dundas, which was proclaimed as East Ward and West Ward with a total of six aldermen on the same day. On 6 June , the Dundas council wards were rearranged into three wards with the addition of the Central Ward adding three aldermen to the number from February Dundas railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the T6 Carlingford line.
It was named Dundas when opened by the State Railway on 1 August It was reconstructed to the same design in The company established a seed testing trial ground in covering 47 acres of the valley.
For a time, Nanbarry was employed to shoot small game for Surgeon White, with whom he lived. In Nanbarry was injured in ritual combat and died 13 days later. The Ponds Creek, originally a series of swamps and ponds, is a network of creeks flowing through the valley joining Subiaco Creek and flowing into the Parramatta River to the south. In July Arthur Phillip settled 14 former convicts and marines on 30 to 50 acre crown grants along these creeks with the grants confirmed in early Grants of 25 to acres were made slightly later to settlers, one of whom was the Reverend James Bain, a chaplain of the New South Wales Corps.
Some of the grantees who were unsuited to farming, gave up their grants or sold them. With the amalgamation of the smaller grants the landscape changed from isolated subsistence farmlets into large estates growing wheat and corn and grazing sheep and cattle. The Ponds Walk Brochure and Map. Source: City of Parramatta.
Reverend Samuel Marsden selected an area of acres in the Field of Mars in The name Dundas, as applied to the district now, did not come into use until almost a century later. The Australian Almanac for states that Dundas was the name of one of the hundreds into which the county of Cumberland was divided, and that it included the parishes of Marramarra, Berowra, Cowan and North and South Colah.
This area lies considerably to the north of the present day Dundas. The district now called Dundas continued to be known as the Field of Mars until 10 April , when its present name was substituted.
In it was finally called Dundas Post Office. In it was determined a volcanic plug of columnar basalt found in the valley was suitable for road building and the Dundas Quarry known as the Pennant Hills Quarry was established. The local government quarry operated until , when it was abandoned. In later years, it was filled and Sir Thomas Mitchell Reserve playing fields established. Kissing Point Road, which opened in , serviced the area.
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