Pendle Hill – Origins of Street Names

Name

Origin & Meaning

Source

Bago Street

Part of Aboriginal 'B' words theme used by Fitzwilliam Wentworth and James Hill. The word 'bagoo' means 'hill'

Sargeant, D. A. (1991). The Toongabbie story: a concise history of the third settlement from its establishment until 1991, 3rd ed. Toongabbie, N.S.W.: Parents and Citizens Association, Toongabbie Public School, p. 42

Ballandella Road

Part of Aboriginal 'B' words theme used by Fitzwilliam Wentworth and James Hill. Ballendella was the name an indigenous man who accompanied Mitchell, the explorer

Sargeant, D. A. (1991).The Toongabbie story, p. 42

Banksia Drive

Part of the 3.2 hectare Melrose Village owned by the United Protestant Association Trust Limited since the 1950s. Melrose Village is a retirement home and aged care facility at 123-157 Bungaree Road, Pendle Hill. Banksia Drive is one of their driveways into the premises and appears to be a reference to the native plants in the area.

Bijiji Street

Part of Aboriginal 'B' words theme used by Fitzwilliam Wentworth and James Hill. The name is possibly (1) a reference to Lake Bijijie which adjoins the Darling River; (2) the European enunciation of the Kamilaroi dialect of the Darling River district word 'biggi' meaning 'mouth'; (3) derived from a South African word which was introduced after a Natal man named his property in N.S.W. 'Bijiji'.

Sargeant, D. A. (1991).The Toongabbie story, p. 42

Binalong Road

Part of Aboriginal 'B' words theme used by Fitzwilliam Wentworth and James Hill. The word 'binalong' means 'toward the high place or sky world'

Sargeant, D. A. (1991).The Toongabbie story, p. 42

Binya Street

Part of Aboriginal 'B' words theme used by Fitzwilliam Wentworth and James Hill. The word 'Binya' means 'big mountain'.

Sargeant, D. A. (1991).The Toongabbie story, p. 42

Birtles Avenue

In 1958, while still part of Blacktown Shire Council, the water mains for Birtles Avenue was laid from the existing main in Bungaree Road easterly and southerly to existing main in Burrabogee Road.

Water mains (1958, April 3). Government Gazette NSW, p. 987.

Blue Gum Drive

Part of the 3.2 hectare Melrose Village owned by the United Protestant Association Trust Limited since the 1950s. Melrose Village is a retirement home and aged care facility at 123-157 Bungaree Road, Pendle Hill. Blue Gum Drive is one of their driveways into the premises and appears to be a reference to the native plants in the area.

Bourke Road

Bringelly Avenue

Origin unknown. Possible origins include: (1) a corruption of an Aboriginal word, possibly meaning “unobtainable”; (2) association with the suburb Bringelly, located on the Northern Road between Penrith and Camden which some historians believe early landholder Judge Ellis Bent named after a family estate in Wales

Community (2015, September 23). Our heritage: Exploring the history behind Macarthur's suburb names, Camden Narellan Advertiser.

Geographical Names Board NSW (1991). Bringelly (suburb), Geographical names register extract, reference 9277.

Wikipedia (2018). Bringelly, New South Wales.

Bungaree Road

Part of Aboriginal 'B' words theme used by Fitzwilliam Wentworth and James Hill. The word bungaree means 'hut or tent' and also "my country"

Sargeant, D. A. (1991). The Toongabbie story, p. 42

Burra Street

Part of Aboriginal 'B' words theme used by Fitzwilliam Wentworth and James Hill. The word burra means 'wait' or 'stop'

Sargeant, D. A. (1991). The Toongabbie story, p. 42

Burrabogee Road

Part of Aboriginal 'B' words theme used by Fitzwilliam Wentworth and James Hill. Possible a spelling variation of 'burrabogie' which means 'big bathing hole'.

Aboriginal house names and their meanings (1966, April 27). The Australian Women's Weekly, p. 33.

Calla Grove

Formerly part of Bringelly-Avenue, D.P. 27669. Shire of Blacktown Council altered the road name in 1958 to Calla Grove.

Shire of Blacktown. Naming and renaming of road. (1958, November 21). Government Gazette NSW, p. 3632.

Comber Crescent

(definition) A comber is a person or machine that prepares cotton or wool for manufacture by separating and straightening the fibres.

Darcy Road

Named after D'Arcy Wentworth, who settled in Parramatta in 1799 and was the original land grant owner of large areas of land in the Toongabbie-Wentworth district including Pendle Hill

Sargeant, D. A. (1991). The Toongabbie story, p. 43

Hallmark Street

Knox Street

Named after the Knox family who moved to Wentworthville, later Toongabbie, and still later Pendle Hill in the 1890s when Elizabeth Jane Knox purchased the land where their house now known as "Joseph Knox Cottage" (formerly "Montargis") at 54 Binalong Road, Old Toongabbie stands. The Knox family includes Elizabeth's husband Ulster Protestant grocer Joseph Knox who was notably active in the local debating society and had an orange orchard surrounding their house which was also turned into fruit wine. Their eigth child was Sir Errol Galbraith Knox (1889–1949), a newspaperman who was knighted in January 1949 and died later in Melbourne, Victoria on 17 October 1949 of coronary vascular disease.

1st Toongabbie Scout Group (no date) Knox family: a brief biography of Sir Errol Knox.

O'Neill, S. (1983). 'Knox, Sir Errol Galbraith (1889–1949)', Australian Dictionary of Biography.

NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (no date). Joseph Knox Cottage, State Heritage Inventory database no. 2245019.

Lennox Street

Nirvana Street

Oriental in origin. The word nirvana means Buddhist beatitude, the cessation of individual existence or the absorption into the supreme spirit

Sargeant, D. A. (1991). The Toongabbie story, p. 43

Pioneer Street

Sheehan Street

Spireton Place

Thane Street

In 1982, part of Thane Street Pendle Hill, north of Darcy Road, opposite Calla Grove was renamed Thane Street South from its junction with Binalong Road easterly to end.

The Parramatta City Council.—Alteration to name of road. (1982, November 19). Government Gazette NSW, p. 5336.

Thorne Avenue

Wentworth Avenue

Named after the Wentworth family, who settled in Parramatta in 1799 and held large areas of land in the Toongabbie-Wentworth district

Sargeant, D. A. (1991). The Toongabbie story, p. 43