Kingsford - named in honour of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935), a pioneer Australian aviator who was first to fly the Pacific and made a record breaking solo flight between England and Australia in 1933. The area was originally known as South Kensington. The search for a new name began in 1935 due partly to postal confusion between South Kensington and Kensington. The chamber of commerce launched an essay competition and four finalists were chosen, Kingsford, Wembley, Chelsea and St Kilda. Kingsford was chosen in recognition of Charles Kingsford Smith the famous aviator.
Brief history: remained largely undeveloped with poultry and pig farms and stables servicing nearby Randwick Racecourse. Between the world wars, it was occupied by squatters who lived in rough camps. After World War II, a number of Greek migrants settled here, particularly from the small island of Castellorizo, near the Turkish coast. It was their arrival which led to the development of Kingsford as a residential area.

Kingsgrove - The name Kingsgrove comes from the name given to land granted to Mrs. Hannah Laycock (1758-1831) in 1804 - King's Grove Farm. As the grant was given by Governor King, it was probably named in his honour. The grant of 500 acres was dated 11 August 1804. The area was bounded by Kingsgrove Road, William Street, Bexley Road and Stoney Creek Road. In time, the two words became the one word we know today.
Hannah Laycock was the wife of Thomas Laycock, Quartermaster of the NSW Corps. It is not known whether the grant was a way of rewarding Thomas (who already had many grants) for his part in putting down the Castle Hill Rebellion or a sympathy grant to support Hannah because of the improper behaviour of her husband. Hannah's farmhouse was located near the corner of Homer Street and Rosemeath Avenue.
Brief history: first used as the name of the first land grant in the Kingsgrove area as we know it today developed after the opening of the Tempe to East Hills railway in 1931. A rail line as far as Salt Pan Creek was recommended in 1923, then it was proposed as far as East Hills. The principal reason for the line was to relieve congestion on the Bankstown and Illawarra lines.

Kings Langley - named after the place of that name near London, England (right).
The earliest land grantees were Matthew Pearce and his wife, who arrived as free settlers aboard the Surprise in 1794. They named their home King's Langley after a village 30 km south of London of that name. Matthew is believed to have been born in the manor house there. Pearce's grant was much larger than the suburb of today an included parts of Seven Hills, Bella Vista and Winston Hills. Their grant became known as Seven Hills as they claimed they could see seven hills from the highest point of their property. The family cemetery still stands on the site of their homestead.

Kingswood / Kingswood Park - named after Phillip Parker King, the son of Governor Philip Gidley King. He named his property Cambridge Park after a family friend, the Duke of Cambridge. In the early 1880s, King's property was later subdivided and sold for development as orchards and vineyards after the arrival of the railway in 1862. Subdivision continued until the beginning of World War I but residential development was still some 50 years away. Kingswood Park was named as an extension to the suburb of Kingswood, being the northern section of the original grant to King.

Kirkham - recalls the name of the property of pioneer settler, Naval Officer, Surveyor-General and Explorer John Oxley who called his grant of 1815 "Kirkham" after his birthplace in Yorkshire, being a town near Preston. The stables are all that remain of Oxley's original country estate. The date 1816 is inscribed on the wall of the stables and this is commonly thought to be the year of completion. The stables are made from rendered brick and have two storeys. It has been consistently used as stables through the years. The grounds contain a memorial to John Oxley in the form of an anchor and nearby is the grave of Chester, the prize-winning horse owned by James White of Camelot. When John Oxley died in 1828 his family retained the estate and both of his sons went on to represent Camden in the NSW Parliament. Kirkham Lane was the name of the railway platform here on the Campbelltown to Camden line.

Kirrawee - from an Aboriginal word meaning 'lengthy'. The name was adopted in 1939 with the opening of the railway line. A postal receiving office in the locality was known as Bladeville. It was operated from the home of Mrs. Louisa Blade, was opened in 1909 and closed in 1915 when a letter delivery commenced from the Sutherland Post Office.

Kirribilli

Kirribilli - believed to be an Anglicised version of an aboriginal word of unknown meaning, though at times historians have wondered if it had its origins in the name of the early settler James Milson's family cottage, which was Carabella. Kirribilli Point was for a while known as Russian Cape as it was here in the 1820s that a Russian team of scientists on a scientific voyage set up an observatory.

Kogarah / Kogarah Bay - derived from the Aboriginal word "coggera" or "cogerah" meaning "rushes". The name was originally applied to what is now known as Rushcutters Bay.
Brief history - during the 1850s a small farming community sprung up in the Kogarah area after timber getters had gone through. The Kogarah Public School was completed in 1876. Residential development was slow until the arrival of the railway in 1885, when major subdivision took place and land sales boomed. Electricity arrived in 1923.

Ku-Ring-Gai - the name of the district encompassing Sydney's upper north shore. It is of Aboriginal origin, and was used by the local clan to describe themselves and their territory and is not the name of the area as is often thought. 'Koori' is aboriginal for people or themselves, 'gai' in the local Aboriginal dialect means place or territory. Thus when the whites first asked the question of the local Aborigines 'what is this place?', when they replied 'koori-gai' they were not saying 'it is called Koori-gai', rather, they were saying 'our land'.

Kurrajong / Kurrajong Heights / Kurrajong Hills - originally spelt Curry Jung Hill, the name recalls the Aboriginal name of the beautiful tree, Brachychiton populnous, which once grew in abundance in the area. The area was originally named Knights Hill by explorer Watkin Tench "in honour of the trusty sergeant who had been the faithful and indefatigable companion of all our travels."
Brief history: the area was first settled around 1790, after Governor Phillip had travelled down the Hawkesbury River in search of suitable farming land for the struggling colony. As early as 1795 an attempt to find a route through the mountains had been made. By 1841 the convict built road through Kurrajong, named Bell's Line of Road, was opened. In the 1820s and 30s, the notorious bushranger Jack Donahoe and his gang terrorised the settlers and travellers of Kurrajong and Richmond.

Kurnell - a number of possibilities as to the origin of the name exist;
1. It is derived from the Aboriginal name for Kurnell peninsula: Kurdul
2. It is the English pronunciation of an Aboriginal word 'Collonel'
3. it came from the name of an early settler, John Connell, who acquired land here in 1821 for timber getting.
Brief history: Kurnell is the location on Botany Bay where James Cook came ashore and camped in April 1770 during his voyage of discovery into the Pacific. It was at the recommendation of Joseph Banks, head botanist of the expedition, that led to Botany Bay being chosen as the site for a new convict settlement in New South Wales in 1788.

Kyeemagh - said to originate from an Aboriginal word meaning "beautiful dawn". Manly Cove on North Harbour was known to the Aborigines as Kay-Yee-My, which may also account for the name though no explanation exists as to why the name was transferred to this location. It has also been suggested that Kyeemagh is a corruption of the name of the local Aboriginal tribe, the Kameygal.
It was the lush reeds on the shores of Botany Bay here that Captain Cook described as 'Water Meadows', believing them to be lush fields. It was on the strength of this false premise that Botany Bay was chosen as the site for Britain's New South Wales convict settlement in the 1780s. Those reeds, named kogara by the local Aborigines, gave rise to the area on the shores of Botany Bay being first named Kogarah.

Kyle Bay: original land grants in the area were to Kyle and Williams. Robert Kyle, who lived in the bay, was a local shipbuilder in the 1870s. The area was subdivided for residential development in the late 1950s.

Lakemba - this suburb was named after the property of an early settler, Benjamin Taylor, whose home stood in what is now Haldon Street. The name recalls a mission station at Lakemba (right) in Fiji, which he once visited.
Brief history - like its neighbouring suburbs, Lakemba was subdivided and developed in the post-gold rush 1860s after the railway arrived in the area. Much development took place in the 1930's and today, land which in the 1920's could have been bought for 50 pounds per block. Quite a number of streets or roads in the district are named after Alderman who served on the Council for varying terms. Amongst these are Sproule Street, Quigg Street, Dennis Street and Taylor Street.

Lalor Park - the name either recalls a local family or Peter Lalor, the rebel miner leader of the Eureka Stockade near Ballarat in November 1854. The former seems the most likely as Peter Lalor had no known connection with the area. A creek which rises in Lalor Park and flows through Seven Hills into Toongabbie Creek is also named Lalor and it is from this that the suburb name was selected.
Brief history: part of the original Seven Hills Farm, the suburb was developed in 1959 by the Housing Commission in what was once known as Seven Hills West. The suburb of Lalor Park is actually north of the present day Seven Hills, but it was in the western section of the original Seven Hills Farm which covered a wider area than today's suburb.

Lane Cove / Lane Cove West - the cove and Lane Cove River were named by Gov. Phillip in 1788. They were named thus either in honour of a personal friend, John Lane, Lord Mayor of London or because the heavily wooded shores of the waterway, when first viewed from the Parramatta River, gave the impression of a lane shaped cove. At that stage the river had not been discovered.
Brief history: the Lane Cove district was heavily wooded when the First Fleet arrived, and due to the rugged terrain, remained relatively untouched until the arrival of loggers in the 1820s. It was they who cut out the tracks for timber haulage which became the district's major thoroughfares. Orchards were planted in the pockets of cleared bush and these remained for a greater part of the 19th century.

Lansdowne - named by Governor Bourke after Henry Petti-Fitzmaurice, third Marquis of Lansdowne (right). The name was first given to the bridge over Prospect Creek designed and built by Scottish stonemason David Lennox in 1835. It replaced Bowler's Bridge, thus named because it led to Bowler's Inn. Governor Bourke chose the name of the bridge. It was many years later that the name was adopted for the surrounding area.

Lansvale - developed in the 1950s, this suburb appears to have received its name as a result of a common practice of the day; to take the first part of a place name on one side and the last part of a place name on the other and come up with a new name for the suburb in between. Hence, in creating the name Lansvale, the 'Lans' from Lansdowne was added to the 'vale' from Canley Vale. A subdivision here was sold as River Heights but there is no evidence to suggest it was ever considered as the name for this suburb.

La Perouse - Commemorates French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Perouse (right), whose two ships entered Botany Bay and anchored on the northern side of the Bay shortly after the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788. A week after the expedition landed, Peré Receveur, a Franciscan monk who was travelling as a scientist aboard L'Astrolabe, died from spear wounds received in Samoa two months earlier when a landing party was attacked by natives. La Perouse's ships left the area on 11 March 1788, never to be seen or heard of again. Receveur's grave, and the name of nearby Frenchmans Bay, recall the visit of this ill-fated expedition. The aboriginal name for the locality was Bunnerong.
Brief history - apart from the presence of an aboriginal community and a number of whaleboat operators, the area remained relatively untouched until after World War II. In 1821, Gov. Macquarie built the stone watchtower for the use of soldiers posted in the area to sight enemy ships. It was Macquarie's last construction project before his departure in that year. In 1885 the Bare Island Fort was erected as part of Sydney's maritime defence system.

Lapstone - derived from Lapstone Hill, the name of the railway platform on the original line across the Blue Mountains (right). The platform was thus named as the hillside was covered with loose water-worn stones of varying size, resembling the lapstone of a shoemaker.

Lavender Bay - George Lavender, an early resident of the lower north shore who, like his father-in-law, Billy Blue, became a boatman, and operated a ferry service across the harbour in the 1830s and 40s. Lavender arrived in Sydney as bosun on the prison hulk Phoenix which was moored in the bay for some years. Known to the aborigines as Quibaree, it was first called Hulk Bay and then Phoenix Bay by the colonists as it was here that derelict prison ships housing convicts destined for the penal colonies of Port Macquarie and Norfolk Island were moored. For many decades, Lavender Bay was the site of shipbuilding activity.

Leichhardt - name recalls German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt (1813 - 1848) who disappeared without trace during an exploratory journey across Australia.
Brief history - Hugh and John Piper had a number of large grants here between them. Hugh established the Piperston estate which was bought in 1846 by Walter Beames, a friend of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. Beames assisted Leichhardt with provisions for his explorations. He changed the name of "Piperston" to Leichhardt after his friend.
Leichhardt was one of the first growth areas of Sydney resulting from the gold rush of the 1850s. As the miners drifted back to Sydney, they sought land upon which to build their homes in what were then the outskirts of Sydney. Due to the influx of people, tram services were commenced, which in turn encouraged further development. The southern part of Leichhardt around Parramatta Road was once part of Petersham. The Municipality of Leichhardt was established in 1871.

Leightonfield - the name of a railway station at Villawood on the Regents Park to Cabramatta branch line. The origin of the name is not known. A light industrial area, Leightonfield is the location of National Rail's Sydney marshalling yards.

Lemongrove - named after the home of early settlers John and Sarah McHenry's house, which they named Lemongrove because it was built next to their lemon orchard.
Brief history: the McHenry's moved into the area in 1827 and were among its first white settlers. The house was demolished and the land subdivided and sold in January 1885 in consequence to a court ruling in a dispute over ownership of the property after the McHentry's death. The streets of Lemongrove are named after the principal people involved in the court case.

Leonay homestead

Leonay - named after the Emu Plains home and vineyard of Leo Buring (1876-1961), the well known Australian wine grower. The name was a combination of Buring's Christian name "Leo" and his wife's nickname, "Nay". Hermann Paul Leopold Buring (Leo Buring) was born in 1876 in South Australia to German parents. In 1902 he joined Minchinbury Cellars near Mt. Druitt. Sometime after this date Buring and his wife built a house on this land in 1916. In 1931 Buring went into business for himself, and with Reginald Mowat of Great Western he formed Leo Buring & Co. Buring's first wine was made from grapes grown at his Emu Plains property in the early 1930's. He later moved the major part of his wine operations to the Barossa Valley in South Australia in 1945. After Buring's death at Leonay in 1961, his wife sold the former vineyard to developers but continued to live in their house until her death. The house then passed to the Emu Plains Sporting & Recreation Club. Leonay is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Emu Plains. Leonay Golf Course is established on what was the original Leonay vineyard.

Leppington - name comes from the property granted to William Cordeaux in 1821, which he named Leppington Park. Cordeaux arrived in the colony in 1817 on the convict transport Friendship to be in charge of the provision section of the Commissariat in Sydney. William was married on 19 September 1818 to Ann Moore, the sister of Thomas Moore of Moorebank. In 1819 he was appointed to take charge of the commissariat and in 1820 he accompanied John Oxley and Commissioner Bigge on a tour from Bathurst to Lake Bathurst. In 1821 he was placed in charge of the commissariat at Liverpool.
Leppington Park was a huge two storey home with its own private ballroom. It was built by convict labour and convicts also worked in the fields. The home was destroyed by fire in the 1940s and the army used the site for target practice. The bricks at the base of the outdoor stage at Leppington School came from this building.
In 1914 an area of Leppington was subdivided as the Raby Estate, named after the property Raby which covered 3269 acres and was granted to Alexander Riley in 1810.

Lethbridge Park - named after the Lethbridge family, the first of whom (Robert) arrived in Sydney on 24 January, 1827. They bought land here which adjoined the Cambridge Park property of Capt. Phillip Parker King (right). Harriett Lethbridge married her neighbour, Capt. King, and King's sister, Mary, married Harriett's brother, Robert Copeland Lethbridge, in 1826. Capt. King was granted 1,500 acres west of Rope's Creek in 1806, and settled there with Harriett. Robert and Mary remained at Lethbridge Park. The Lethbridge family vault is the largest in the St Mary Magdalene Church's graveyard. Lethbridge Park was the first of many Housing Commission estates of the Mt. Druitt housing Estate project of the 1960s. Some local streets are named after Pacific Islands including Bougainville, Luzon, Pitcairn, Samoa and Tahiti.

Leumeah - from an Aboriginal word meaning 'here I rest'. It was the name of the land grant of pioneer settler, John Warby. When the railway platform was being built in 1887, a local politician decided its name should be Holly Lea, which was the name of a property nearby that he had bought three years prior. Other farmers in the area were so infuriated, one defaced the platform sign the day it was erected. The farmers were united in the belief that the name should honour pioneer settler, John Warby, whose land grant of Leumeah stood to the south. By the 1880s, it was owned by the influential couple, Joseph and Eliza Rudd. Eager to please, he compromised and changed the name to Leumeah.
Brief history: John Warby was transported in 1792 and ten years later was appointed as a constable to protect the famous wild cattle of the Cow Pastures. In this role he had forged a close friendship with the local Aborigines, the Tharawal, so when he was granted 104 ha on Bow Bowing Creek in 1816, Warby named his estate Leumeah, which transplanted from Tharawal means 'here I rest'. Warby's house survived until 1963 when it was demolished, but his stable and barn still exist. The Barn Restaurant occupies the stable and the barn is part of the "Colonial Motor Inn". Other early land grantees included James Fletcher, William Kitson, William Ray and Jeremiah Smith. The first subdivision, creating plots for residences and small farms took place in April 1926 but few lots were sold. The biggest developments came after March 1959, when many of the area's rural back blocks were subdivided and sold as residential blocks. The first State Housing Commission subdivision was released in September 1961. In April 1975, attempts were made to rename the section of Leumeah bordering on Minto as Campbellfield in honour of the historic property founded by Dr. William Redfern. Public opposition forced the idea to be dropped. Many of the names of Leumeah's early streets recall early residents and land developers. A 1966 subdivision's streets honour famous inventors; those around Angle Road recall Australian rivers; a 1971 Housing Commission subdivision recalls writers and poets; the 1971 Leumeah Heights subdivision recalls Australian deserts, lakes and river caves; the July 1980 subdivision's streets are named after Antarctic explorers.

Lewisham - taken from the name of the home of an early landowner, Judge Joshua Josephson. It recalls a borough near London, England where Josephson came from.
Brief history - one of the earliest settlers in the area was John Gambling who took up a grant in 1810. His name was remembered in Gambling Creek, which these days is a covered drain which flows into Hawthorne Canal. Like neighbouring Enmore, it was partly cleared in the 1830s and was part of a much larger district known as Petersham. Lewisham village developed around the railway station in the 1870s.

Entrance to Liberty Grove estate

Liberty Grove - located to the east of Homebush Bay, Liberty Grove adjoins Bicentennial Park, which has been developed as a significant wetland area. Free settlers began farming the area in 1793 and knew it as Liberty Plains, a name which has been adapted for the modern residential development.

Lidcombe - a name created in 1913 by joining sections of the names of two mayors of the Municipality of Rookwood: Mr Lidbury, the current mayor, and Mr Larcombe, a former mayor.
Brief history: the area was first known as Haslam's Creek after Samuel Haslam who took up a grant here in 1804, the northern boundary of which was the creek which bares his name. His neighbours included Joseph Potts, an accountant of the Bank of New South Wales, after whom Potts Point is named. He called his 1,000 acre grant Hyde Park. Potts extended it several times to include what today are Berala, Rookwood, Auburn and Potts Hill, which recalls its former owner.
Haslam's Creek, located near the site of Lidcombe station, was one of the first stations on the Sydney to Parramatta railway in 1855. Three years on it was the site of the first major railway accident in New South Wales which resulted in two deaths. When Rookwood Cemetery was opened in 1867, it was named Haslam's Creek Cemetery but the name was changed in 1876 after residents complained that the name associated their suburb with the cemetery. Ironically, when the cemetery's name was changed, so was the railway station - it became Rookwood! To add insult to injury, the municipality of Rookwood was created in 1891 which led to more lobbying to change the name back. This led to the selection of a new name for the suburb and railway station - Lidcombe - which was gazetted in 1913.

Lilli Pilli - formerly described as Lilly Pilly Point, because of the native Myrtle (Lilly Pilly or Lilli Pilli - Acmena smithii) Tree (right) growing in rich black soil.
Early history: the first description of the area was recorded by Robert Cooper Walker, an employee of developer and businessman Thomas Holt who owned the Sutherland estate, of which Lilli Pilli was a part. The only other landowner in the area at the time was Francis Mitchell who, in 1840, gave his address as Great Turriell or Lilly Pilly Point. No more is known of Mitchell. Lilly Pilly remained virgin bush until after World War II when the current suburb was created.

Lilyfield - possibly from lilies growing in a field but the origin of the name remains obscure. The first recording of the name was in the 1893 Sands Directory, which identified the Lilyfield Post Office as being at 53 Lamb Street Leichhardt, though it was probably in common use well before then.

Lindfield / East Lindfield / West Lindfield - named after a property owned by a Mr List, who was born in Lindfield, a suburb of Hayward's Heath in Surrey, England. When the railway was built in 1890, the name of his property was used for the station nearby. Before that time, the Lindfield district was sparsely populated by orchardists. Lindfield saw its greatest period of growth after World War I.

Linley Point - One of the smallest suburbs of Sydney, the origin of its name is unknown but probably refers to an early settler or landowner.
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Little Bay

Little Bay - The bay's name is descriptive and serves to differentiate it from the only other bay on this stretch of coast, which is appropriately named Long Bay.
Brief history: a settlement here came into being as a camp to isolate smallpox sufferers during Sydney's smallpox epidemic of 1881-82. It was again used during the Bubonic plague of 1900 and to isolate soldiers who returned from World War I with an influenza virus which affected up to 50 percent of Sydney's population. Prince Henry Hospital grew out of what began as a makeshift camp on the beach.

Liverpool - named in honour of Robert Jenkinson, the Earl of Liverpool who, at the time of naming, was Secretary of State for the Colonies and later Prime Minister of England.
Brief history: Liverpool is one of a number of towns founded by Gov. Macquarie as a centre for the developing areas to the west of Sydney. At the time of Macquarie's visit, there were already numerous farms established in the area then known as Cow Pastures which is between Liverpool and Camden. Liverpool town centre contains a number of historic buildings dating from Macquarie's time. It remained a centre for a thriving dairy farming industry until well after 1856 when the railway arrived, however from that year it grew significantly as a residential area.

Llandilo - named after the Welsh town of Llandeilo Fawr in Wales, a town associated with St. Teilo, an important 6th-century Welsh saint, monk, and bishop, whose work and cult were centred on Llandeilo Fawr. "Llan" means church or village. Although there is some evidence to suggest that the name Llandilo was in limited use as early as the 1860's, it would seem that the area was better known as Terry Brook after Samuel Terry (1776?-1838), the ex-convict who became a wealthy merchant and landowner. Terry had been granted 950 acres in the area on 13 January, 1818. By 1888, however, the name Llandilo was applied to subdivisions in the area.

Loftus / Loftus Heights - named after a former governor of New South Wales, Lord Augustus William Spencer Loftus. He was Governor at the time the railway station was opened and his name was used for it. Subdivision for building lots began until 1923, however, development was slow until the 1950s.

Londonderry - named after "Londonderry", a property of 30 acres granted to a Thomas Kendall. It is not certain if this was the same Thomas Kendall who worked as a convict labourer on the building of the same road over the Blue Mountains in 1814. It is certain, however, that the Kendall family were early settlers in the Castlereagh area, probably squatting in the area in the early 1800's.

Longueville - possibly named after a French nobleman, the Duc de Longueville, although there is no documentation to support or refute this.
Brief history: the first recorded landowner was Robert Kirk who owned a 120 acre estate here. Development of Longueville was extremely slow - by 1884 there were still only two houses on the point. Subdivision and the sale of land for residential development took off after World War I and during the 1920s after a ferry service to the city was launched, it became one of Sydney's fastest growing suburbs.

Lovett Bay: The area commonly referred to as the Western foreshores comprises three bays on the south western side of Pittwater, one of which is Lovett Bay. It was named after John Lovett who lived on this bay in 1836. It was named Night Bay in the survey of 1869. Dorothea Mackellar, the poet, lived here at her house, Tarrangaua, built in 1924. Today it is a small village of holiday homes.
The northernmost bay of the Western foreshores is Towlers Bay, it was named after Bill Toler who used to camp there. Originally named Morning Bay in a survey of 1869, it was officially changed in 1984. The northern headland at Elvina Bay, is called Rocky Point. In 1842 William Oliver had his first farm here, cutting timber and later he established fruit trees.

Lower Portland - named after William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, and Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1783, and from 1807- 1809. He was Home Secretary from 1794 to 1801. The name was first used in 1805, and almost certainly seems associated with the story that a rock on the plateau above the headland resembled the Duke of Portland. Lower Portland was the area settled downstream from Portland Head.

Lowlands - a descriptive name, being part of the Hawkesbury River floodplains downstream from Richmond. It rarely floods these days due to the construction of the Warragamba dam upstream which regulates flood waters.

Lucas Heights - named after John Lucas Snr., a flour miller at Liverpool who was granted 150 acres at the 'head of unnamed stream sailing into Georges River', 1823. He built a water-driven mill for grinding corn from the Illawarra farms &emdash; small ships sailed up the coast into Botany Bay, Georges River and Woronora River.

Long Point - the only suburb of Campbelltown to be named after a geographical feature. The name first appeared on an old plan of the Campbellfield estate dated from 1844 which showed the north-west portion of the estate as 'the long point forest land'.
Brief history: the first settler was Thomas Wills, brother of Sarah Wills, who is better known as Sarah Redfern, the wife of Minto's Dr. William Redfern. Thomas held almost all of Long Point, the most far-flung section of Redfern's Campbellfield Estate. In the 1930's, it was used as the hideout of East Sydney underworld figures who would 'disappear' discreetly in small houses set up in the bush there when the law looked like catching up with them. The area was also home to many families during the 1930s depression who lived in bush shanties.

Luddenham - In November 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie granted John Blaxland (1769-1845), 6,710 acres of land between the Nepean River and South Creek, straddling what is now the township of Luddenham. John Blaxland was the elder brother of Gregory Blaxland of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth fame. The grant was named "Luddenham" after the Blaxland family estate in Kent, England.

Lugano, Switzerland

Lugarno - named after Lugano in the Ticino region of Switzerland. Originally the spelling of the two places was the same. Swiss Lugano is beside Lake Lugano, and a short distance from the town the Italian border passes through the lake. Believed to have been named by James Murphy, the principal assistant to Thomas Holt who worked at various times as the secretary, manager, or director of the Holt-Sutherland Estate Company. He held a large amount of land at Como, where he ran the Murphy's Pleasure Grounds from the 1880's to World War I. He built a Swiss style chalet at Como, overlooking the George's and Woronora Rivers. It is not known if Murphy travelled overseas, or if he was inspired by accounts of the travels of Thomas Holt, but he is believed to be responsible for many Swiss and Italian names in the district, including those of Lugano and Como. The earliest recorded use of the name Lugano is in the Government Gazette of the 10th June, 1887, announcing the re-establishment of the ferry at 'a point on the George's River known as the Old George's River crossing, now known as Lugano'. The name Lugano appears to have originally been applied to that stretch of the river, and to the land on both sides of the river where the ferry crossed.
Brief history: during the early years of the colony, the Lugarno peninsula was largely unoccupied and covered in dense bush. The tip of its point was selected by Surveyor-General Sir Thomas Mitchell and his assistant William Govett as the point at which a new road to the Illawarra would cross the Georges River. Forest Road follows the path they surveyed through the high forests which once covered the St George District. Down on the water's edge near Edith Bay, a punt would ferry travellers to a continuation of the road up and over the hillside on the Illawong bank of the river. Mitchell's Old Illawarra Road was built by convicts in 1941 along the surveyed route and remained the main road to the Illawarra until a punt service across the Georges River at Blakehurst in the 1870s opened up a shorter, less arduous route.
History of Lugarno

Lurnea - chosen to replace the name Hillview, it is said to be an Aboriginal name, either meaning 'a resting place' or describing the location as such.
This locality, to the south-west of Liverpool, was one of the earliest farming districts in Sydney. After World War I it was subdivided into small farmlets for returned soldiers to settle on and develop poultry farms and orchards. The development was named Hillview though there were no hills to view as the surrounding area is flat plain. The process of developing accommodation for retired servicemen continued until after World War II when the Green Valley Housing Scheme was launched to settle that war's returned soldiers and refugees from Europe in new suburban areas to the north of Lurnea.