Tennyson Point, New South Wales
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Tennyson Point is a Lower North Shore waterfront suburb within the City of Ryde, in Sydney, Australia. Tennyson Point is on a peninsula positioned between Morrison Bay and Glades Bay. The suburb was called Tennyson before it was renamed Tennyson Point by the Geographical Names Board of NSW in 2001.
[edit] History
Captain William Raven [1] (1756-1814) sailed to New South Wales in 1792 as captain and part owner of the Britannia, and was granted 100 acres (40 ha) of land in the area in 1795, plus another 285 acres (115 ha) in 1799. These Eastern Farm properties were managed for him by the brewer James Squire[2] of Kissing Point until 1822. Raven is commemorated in the southernmost shore, called Raven's Point.
Tennyson Estate, named after the poet Alfred Tennyson, was subdivided in 1887.[3]
[edit] References
- Blaxell, Gregory. The River: Sydney Cove to Parramatta. Eastwood, N.S.W.: Brush Farm Historical Society, 2004. ISBN 0-9751419-1-0.
- ^ ADB on Raven
- ^ ADB on Squire
- ^ Blaxell, p. 145
[edit] External links
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
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