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Menai (SUBURB), NSW Details
Description
A suburb about 3.5 km W by N of Woronoracontaining the neighbourhoods of MenaiAlfords pointIllawongBangor and Lucas Heights the boundaries of which have been determined in GNB 1285.
Origin
MENAI - first called Bangor by Owen Jones a settler after his birthplace in Wales. Changed in 1910 Menai was a township opposite Bangor on the Menai Straits in Wales P 67. Infor. from Two Hundred Years in Retrospect Kurnell-Sutherland 1770-1970 Walker)
Menai (SUBURB), NSW
title | Menai (SUBURB) |
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state | NSW |
reference | 37140 |
placename | Menai |
designation | SUBURB |
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lga | SUTHERLAND SHIRE |
description | A suburb about 3.5 km W by N of Woronoracontaining the neighbourhoods of MenaiAlfords pointIllawongBangor and Lucas Heights the boundaries of which have been determined in GNB 1285. |
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origin | MENAI - first called Bangor by Owen Jones a settler after his birthplace in Wales. Changed in 1910 Menai was a township opposite Bangor on the Menai Straits in Wales P 67. Infor. from Two Hundred Years in Retrospect Kurnell-Sutherland 1770-1970 Walker) |
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