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Mount Pritchard

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Fairfield City Council NSW, PO Box 21, Mount Pritchard, NSW 2170
02 9725 0222

Description

Mount Pritchard is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 34 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the City of Fairfield and the City of Liverpool, and is part of the South-western Sydney region.

Mount Pritchard is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 34 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the City of Fairfield and the City of Liverpool, and is part of the South-western Sydney region.

History

Mount Pritchard was originally home to the Cabrogal people who occupied much of the greater Fairfield area. In the early 19th century, the land was granted to a number of ex-convicts for farming. Later it was made part of the Male Orphan School Estate. In 1913, land west of Cabramatta Creek and Orange Grove Road previously owned by the Bull family was subdivided into smaller residential lots by a real estate property salesman named Hugh Pritchard, who named it the Cabramatta Park Estate. From 1919, to honour Mr Pritchard's releasing from debt of a number of landowners whom he'd financed, the estate was renamed Mount Pritchard. The local electoral polling place followed suit in 1924. From the early settler days the general area had been known unofficially as Mount Misery, originally because of a story of one of the early settlers and his family camping there whilst travelling, losing their bullocks, and for three weeks remaining in misery until starvation compelled them to beat a retreat, minus bullocks and dray.

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Type: Suburbs

Population: 1001-10000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 3.094 km2

Elevation: 11-50 metres

Town elevation: 34 m

Population number: 9,955

Local Government Area: Fairfield City Council

Location

Fairfield City Council NSW, PO Box 21, Mount Pritchard, NSW 2170

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Mount Pritchard, New South Wales

Mount Pritchard - Localista

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