Badgerys Creek (New South Wales)

This article is about the watercourse. For the suburb, see Badgerys Creek, New South Wales. For the airport, see Western Sydney Airport.

River in New South Wales, Australia

Badgerys Creek

Etymology	In honour of James Badgery (1769-1827)
Location
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
Region	Sydney basin (IBRA), Greater Western Sydney
Local government areas	Camden, Liverpool, Penrith, Blacktown, Hawkesbury
Physical characteristics

Source
• location	near Bringelly

Mouth	confluence with South Creek
• location	Badgerys Creek
Length	16 km (9.9 mi)
Basin features
River system	Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment

Badgerys Creek, a watercourse that is part of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment, is located in Greater Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Course and features

Badgerys Creek rises in Sydney's south western suburbs about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Bringelly and flows generally north then north-east before reaching its confluence with South Creek, in the suburb of Badgerys Creek. The creek descends 94 metres (308 ft) over its 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) course.

Etymology

Badgerys Creek is named after James Badgery who received a grant of 640 acres (260 ha) in 1812. Badgery (1769-1827) had arrived in the colony in November 1799 as an emigrant in the employ of William Paterson of the New South Wales Corps. In 1803, Badgery obtained a grant of 100 acres (40 ha) at Agnes Banks in the area of Yarramundi Lagoon and an additional 39 acres (16 ha) was granted the following year. However it was this large grant of 640 acres (260 ha) that Badgery used to establish a farming enterprise which included property in the Sutton Forest region and evolved over the nineteenth century into the agricultural company Pitt Son & Badgery. Badgery named the grant Exeter Farm after his English birthplace. By 1828 the Badgery family had 1,900 acres (770 ha) of land in the colony. Essentially rural and sparsely populated throughout the nineteenth century, local government representation was forced on the area by the New South Wales Government in 1906 through the establishment of Nepean Shire. In the early 1920s, Badgery’s old grant was divided under the provisions of the Soldier Settlement Act, while in 1936 a large area with frontage to South Creek was acquired by the Commonwealth of Australia for a CSIRO research station for animal health (McMaster’s Field Station) and also for a short time was a field station for research into radio astronomy. The site was sold by the CSIRO in 1996.

References

^ Paul Davies Pty. Ltd. (November 2007). "Badgerys Creek". Penrith Heritage Study 2007, Badgerys Creek (PDF). Penrith City Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
"Badgerys Creek". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 December 2013.

Hawkesbury River region, New South Wales, Australia

Islands

National parks and nature reserves

European explorers of the region

Bridges and ferries

Bridges	Brooklyn Bridge Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge Hawkesbury River railway station Mooney Mooney Bridge Peats Ferry Bridge Windsor Bridge
Ferries	Berowra Waters Hawkesbury River Ferries Lower Portland Sackville Webbs Creek Wisemans

Adjoining rivers, bays,
reservoirs, and creeks

Rivers	Colo Grose Macdonald Nepean Warragamba Wolgan Wollangambe
Bays	Brisbane Water Broken Bay Pittwater
Reservoirs	Mangrove Creek Dam Warragamba Dam
Creeks	Badgerys Bells Berowra Blaxland Breakfast Coal and Candle Cowan Eastern Mangrove Mooney Mooney Reedy Ropes South Webbs Wollemi

Local government areas

Education

Major attractions

Category

v t e Waterways of the Sydney Metropolitan catchment, New South Wales, Australia
Major inlets and harbours	Botany Bay Broken Bay Middle Harbour Port Jackson Port Hacking
Minor bays and coves	Akuna Balls Head Bantry Berrys Blackwattle Burraneer Canada Careening Cove Cockle Dolans Double Elizabeth Gwawley Gymea Hen & Chicken Homebush Iron Cove Lavender Mosman Neutral Oatley Rose Rozelle Rushcutters Towlers Watsons Weeney White Woolooware
Lagoons	Dee Why Curl Curl Manly Narrabeen
Rivers	Cooks Duck Georges Hacking Hawkesbury Lane Cove Lennox (proposed) Nepean Parramatta Pittwater Woronora
Creeks	A'Becketts Angus Archer Badgerys Bardwell Bare Bedford Bellamy Farm Bellbird Bells Berowra Bidjigal Bilgola Blacktown Blaxland Blue Gum Boggywell Bonds Breakfast Brennans Brickmakers Bunbury Curran Bungarribee Burdekin Byrnes Cabramatta Caddies Cahill Camp Careel Carroll Charity Claremont Clear Paddock Creek Coal and Candle Coopers Cosgrove Cowan Coxs (Belfield) Cup and Saucer Darling Mills Deadmans Devlin Duck Eastern Erskine Eskdale Excelsior Finlaysons First Ponds Forbes Green Valley Frenchs Glenbrook Gore Grantham Greystanes Haslams Hunts Iron Cove Johnstons Kemps Knapsack Lalor Little Lowes Marsden McCarrs McKenzies McMahon's Maxwells Middle Harbour Mill Minchinbury O'Hares Orphan School Orphan School (Fairfield) Pendle Hill Powells Prospect Punchbowl Quakers Reedy Rileys Ropes Saleyards Salt Pan Sawmill Scout Second Ponds Smalls Smiths South Still Stoney Subiaco Tarban Terrys Thompsons Toongabbie Two Vineyard Werrington Whites Williams Wolli
Canals and streams	Alexandra Canal Busby's Bore Guildford West pipehead and water supply canal Hawthorne Canal Tank Stream Upper Canal System
Reservoirs	Balmain (disused) Botany Swamps Centennial Park Lake Burragorang Manly Dam Reserve Paddington (disused) Penshurst Petersham Lake Parramatta Prospect Prospect Hill Reservoir Upper Nepean Scheme Waverley
Adjoining rivers and bays	Akuna Brisbane Water Burke Cataract Colo Cordeaux Coxs Grose Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kedumba Kowmung Macdonald Mooney Mooney Mulwaree Nattai Tarlo Warragamba Wollondilly

v t e River systems and rivers of Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia
Central Coast	Avoca Lake Budgewoi Lake Lake Macquarie Lake Munmorah Ourimbah Terrigal Lagoon Tuggerah Lake Wamberal Lagoon Wyong Dora
Hawkesbury-Nepean	Avon Bargo Bedford Burke Capertee Cataract Colo Coorongooba Cordeaux Coxs Du Faur Erskine Grose Hawkesbury Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kanangra Kedumba Kowmung Little (Oberon) Little (Wingecarribee) Little (Wollondilly) Macdonald Mangrove Mogo Mooney Mooney Mulwaree Nattai Nepean Paddys Pittwater River Lett Rush Tarlo Tonalli Tuglow Warragamba Webbs Wingecarribee Wolgan Wollangambe Wollemi Wollondilly Berowra South
Sydney Metropolitan	Cooks Duck Georges Hacking Lane Cove Parramatta Woronora A'Becketts Archer Badgerys Bardwell Bare Bells Berowra Bilgola Blaxland Boggywell Breakfast Cabramatta Charity Clear Paddock Creek Coal and Candle Cowan Coxs (Belfield) Cup and Saucer Darling Mills Devlin Duck Eastern Erskine Glenbrook Gore Haslams Iron Cove Johnstons Kemps Middle Harbour Orphan School Orphan School (Fairfield) Powells Prospect Reedy Ropes Saleyards Salt Pan Scout Smalls Smiths South Still Subiaco Tarban Terrys Toongabbie Vineyard Whites Wolli
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33°51′S 150°45′E / 33.850°S 150.750°E / -33.850; 150.750

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