Liverpool, New South Wales
suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Liverpool is a suburb in South Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located 31 kilometres (19 mi) south-west of the Sydney central business district on the western bank of the Georges River. Liverpool is the administrative centre for the City of Liverpool local government area.
History
Indigenous
Before British colonisation, Liverpool was the country of the Cabrogal people of the Dharug nation. The term "cabro" (also pronounced "cobra" or "cabra") refers to the edible insect larvae found in timber around the region. The country of the Cabrogal clan extended from the areas of what is now Cabramatta and Liverpool, east to the mouth of the Georges River.
The Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council, established under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983, is based in Liverpool and covers much of south-western Sydney.
British colonisation
Liverpool is one of the oldest urban settlements in Australia, founded on 7 November 1810 as an agricultural centre by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, who was then the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the English city of Liverpool, upon which some of the area's architecture is based.
The post office opened at Liverpool on 1 March 1825 – one of the first post offices to be opened in New South Wales.
“Liverpool, New South Wales” enters the record as suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Liverpool, South and Wales can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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