Bayswater, New Zealand

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Bayswater
Local Authority	North Shore City
Characteristics:
Established	1850s (Approx.)
Population	2,310 ^{(data: 2001)}
Surrounded by:
North	(Waitemata Harbour)
North-east	Belmont
East	Narrow Neck
South-east	(Waitemata Harbour)
South	(Waitemata Harbour)
South-west	(Waitemata Harbour)
West	(Waitemata Harbour)
North-west	(Waitemata Harbour)

Bayswater is a suburb of North Shore City in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It lies on a peninsula which juts into the Waitemata Harbour. According to the 2001 census, Bayswater has a population of 2,310.

Bayswater was originally named O'Neill's Point after the first European settlers in the area, brothers Allan and James O'Neill^[1]. Originally settling at the point (which still bears their name) at the end of the peninsula in the 1840s, by the 1850s^[2] the O'Neills owned the entire peninsula. Some time later the area was renamed Bayswater after one of the more expensive new inner suburbs of London. The London Bayswater is located north of Hyde Park and was developed during the middle of the 19th century. The name was chosen for the Auckland suburb to evoke a sense of style as well as being a straight description of its physical location as a seaside development.