Seven Hills - Origin of Street Names

Name

Origin & Meaning

Source

Blacktown Creek

Blacktown Creek flows from Prospect Reservoir in the south to join Toongabbie Creek at International Park north of the railway line. Several large parks, William Lawson and Orana Park, form part of the creek corridor. This creek corridor is one of the most altered in the Upper Parramatta River Catchment with large sections of the creek in concrete channels and the adjacent open space. The name is taken from land in the area that Governor Macquarie reserved for the exclusive use of the Aborigines of the Sydney area. On it a Native Institute, known as 'Black Town', was built at Plumpton to assimilate the Aborigines into European ways. It failed and was closed in 1833. Blacktown Creek passes through several parks or reserves including William Lawson Wetlands, Orana Park, Wall Street Reserve and Mitchell Reserve.

Pocket guide to Sydney. (n.d.). Blacktown Creek

Burra Creek

Derived from the Aboriginal word for eel.

Parramatta Park Trust. (n.d.). Burramatta Aboriginal Landscape Trail

Grirraween Creek

Takes its name from the Aboriginal name of the locality, said to mean a place where flowers grow. Also known as Greystanes Creek; this latter name has been officially discontinued however it still appears in street directories.

Pocket guide to Sydney. (n.d.). Girraween Creek

Northwest Transitway

The North-West T-way is a continuous series of bus-only lanes and bus roadways between Parramatta, Blacktown and Rouse Hill in Western Sydney. Opened in stages between March and November 2007, the 24 km (14.9 mi) T-way was the second bus rapid transit route to be built in Sydney after the Liverpool–Parramatta T-way.

Wikipedia. (2021). North-West T-way

Old Windsor Road

(c1791, c1820s, c1860). This inter-regional road system was developed in two parts, first as a connecting route between the Parramatta township and the convict stockade and compound at Toongabbie Farm in 1791, and secondly as a connecting route from the Toongabbie Farm to the Hawkesbury Settlements terminating at Green Hills (now Windsor) in 1794. The route was known as the Toongabee Road and then, until 1802, as the Hawkesbury Road. Between 1802 and 1810 a new route springing from Church Street Parramatta to Green Hills was set out and constructed and when Green Hills was re-named Windsor in 1810, that new route took the name Windsor New Road. The former route became referred to as the Toongabee Old Road and the Hawkesbury Old Road. After the closure of the Toongabbie Government Farm in 1811, quarry and cargo carts took an easier grade around the Hill forming the nucleus of a road which was formalised in the subdivision of the Parramatta Domain in 1860 and which became locally known as Old Windsor Road. The name itself was formalised by Blacktown Shire Council after 1906.

NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. (2012). Windsor and Old Windsor Roads.

Reynolds Park

Sue Savage and Reynolds Parks together form a significant area of Council owned community land of approximately 17 hectares in size and are important public recreation facilities for the Toongabbie locality. The open space is bounded by Old Windsor Road to the east, industrial properties to the north, McCoy Park to the west and a residential area along Chanel Street to the south. Toongabbie Creek runs west to east through the park and a large portion of the adjacent open space is subject to flooding. The small tributary Burra Creek flows south, joining Toongabbie Creek in the middle of the park. Canalised Girraween Creek joins Toongabbie Creek at the western end of the park. The origin is unknown. The area was originally an orchard subdivided after World War 11. The Park was named by Blacktown Council. It was transferred to Parramatta Council in 1972. This name is shown in the 1980 UBD street directory and on the signpost.

City of Parramatta. (2017). Sue Savage and Reynolds Parks Master Plan Report

GNB. (2021). Reynolds Park

Settlers Walk

Settlers Walk starts near Toongabbie Railway Station and continues to Oakes Road Winston Hills where it joins the Pemulwuy Loop. It forms the most western section of the greater Toongabbie Creek Walk which links Toongabbie Railway Station to Parramatta Railway Station. The traditional lands of the Darug Tooga tribe, The First Australians would have harvested the abundant resources of the large wet lands, now converted to McCoys Basin. Settlers Walk passes through the land used from 1791 to 1803 as Tongabby Government Farm: the Third Settlement of Australia. It began as a military and convict barracks consisting of mud and slab wood huts for the military down to hollow tree trunks for some of the convicts.

The Hawkesbury Road opened in 1794 linking Parramatta to the Hawkesbury (now Old Windsor Road) passing through the town of Toongabbie. However the Toongabbie railway siding build in 1860 attracted a new settlement to the current location and Old Toongabbie ceased to expand.

City of Parramatta. (2021). Settlers Walk

Seven Hills Park

Named after the suburb of Seven Hills.

Sue Savage Park

Sue Savage Park is a reserve that comprises Lot 4 DP 589814, Lot 49 DP 245140, Lot 155 DP 259861 and Lot 13 DP 246608 and adjoins McCoy Park in the west and Reynolds Park in the east. The western section of the reserve extends across Toongabbie Creek and is bounded by Tucks Road and the rear of properties fronting Anvil Road and Prince William Drive. It is also in a flood prone natural area between Toongabbie Creek and Chanel Street, Toongabbie.

The reserve is named after Sue Savage (26 February 1944 - 23 February 1994), who served on many committees in the community including two park committees, the Toongabbie Public School Committee and the Toongabbie and Parramatta Bi Centennial committees. She was also active in a range of charities. The reserve was formerly part of a larger McCoy Park and it was the Toongabbie Historical Society that suggested that the reserve be named after Sue Savage. The name was officially gazetted on the 2 August 1996.

City of Parramatta. (2017). Sue Savage and Reynolds Parks Master Plan Report

GNB. (2021). Sue Savage Park

Toongabbie Creek

The original inhabitants of the area were the Toongagal clan, part of the Dharuk indigenous people. Toongabbie is of Aboriginal origin, said to mean “meeting of the waters”.

Parramatta History and Heritage. (2020). Winston Hills - A Brief History

Tucks Road

Named after the Tuck family property. Mr John Isaac Tuck (d. 24 February 1917, aged 68) who owned an orchard in the area known as The Retreat and Mr Tuck's property before it was subdivided and parts sold in 1905. In an Industrial map of Seven Hills, it appears that the Tuck's family retained a portion of the land east of Toongabbie Creek which was held by John and Agnes Sarah's children including eldest son Percy Roy Tuck  of Concord, 4 acres 2 roods, 20 perches and his daughters Mrs May H. Parsons held 2 acres, 3 roods, 12 perches; H.E. Roche (possibly Nellie nee Tuck, died 1982) and her husband J.J. Roche held 1 acre 15 3/4 perches and 1 acre, 3 rods, 24 1/3 perches; Daisy C. Waters held 2 acres, 3 rods, 37 3/4 perches; and Lily F. Higgin held 2 acres 3 rods 9 3/4 perches.

A part of McCoy Park is located on [54-56] Tucks Road, Seven Hills.

Orchard at Seven Hills. (1905, February 4). The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate

Blacktown Memories. (2020). Seven Hills Industrial Area.