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Toongabbie, New South Wales
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
Toongabbie is a suburb in Sydney, Australia, and is noted for being the third settlement set up after the British occupation of Australia in 1788. Toongabbie is situated approximately 26km (16 miles) west of the central business district of Sydney. The name is derived from an aboriginal word. Toongabbie is roughly divided by the main western railway line over two Local Government Areas - City of Parramatta and City of Holroyd and the area is also criss-crossed by Toongabbie Creek, a tributary of the Parramatta River, and several smaller creeks. Although the area is relatively densely settled, in recent years programs of bushland regeneration, pollution control and remedial works to local waterways have seen a surprising return by several rare wildlife species, and in the 1990s platypus were reported to have returned to sections of Toongabbie Creek. Toongabbie's shopping precinct is located to the south of the railway line next to the station. To the south east, the next suburb (and railway station) is Pendle Hill; to the south is Girraween and to the west is Seven Hills. Old Toongabbie To the east of Toongabbie station is the area known as Old Toongabbie, which includes the sites of the original colonial settlement. In the 1990s this area was reduced, with the part immediately north of Wentworthville, which is also known unofficially as the locality of Constitution Hill, being reclassified as Wentworthville. Winston Hills The more northerly parts, north of Toongabbie Creek, became known as Winston Hills in the late 1960s; originally this was simply the name of a large housing development in the area, but a large section of what was once Old Toongabbie was officially renamed in the 1970s, a trend that has been echoed in many other areas of the western suburbs.

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