Colebee,_New_South_Wales

Colebee, New South Wales

Colebee, New South Wales

Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

This article is about the suburb of Sydney. For the department store, see Schofields (department store).

Colebee is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Colebee is located 47 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Western Sydney region.[2]

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History

Colebee was named after C. Colebee who is believed to have been the first indigenous Australian to have been granted land in the Blacktown area, at Plumpton Ridge.[3] He was the son of Yarramundi.

Heritage listings

Colebee has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

References

  1. [1]
    Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Colebee (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 15 January 2018. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. [2]
    WESTIR Ltd (2003). "The 2001 City of Blacktown Social Plan". City of Blacktown. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2006. Retrieved 26 August 2006.
  3. [3]
    "Colebee". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 May 2007. Edit this at Wikidata
  4. [4]
    "Colebee and Nurragingy Land Grant". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H01877. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence.


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