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This article is about the watercourse. For the settlement, see Berowra Creek, New South Wales.

River in New South Wales, Australia

Berowra Thornleigh Gully (Gn), Fish Pond Creek (R)
Berowra Creek at Berowra Waters

Etymology	Aboriginal: "place of many winds"
Location
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
Region	Sydney Basin (IBRA), Greater metropolitan Sydney
Local government areas	Hornsby
Physical characteristics

Source	Pennant Hills
• location	Hornsby Heights
• elevation	82 m (269 ft)

Mouth	confluence with Hawkesbury River
• location	west of Brooklyn
• elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Length	22 km (14 mi)
Basin features
River system	Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment
National park	Marramarra

The Berowra Creek, a watercourse that is part of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment, is located to the north of the Sydney central business district in the Hornsby Shire of New South Wales, Australia.

Course and features

The Berowra Creek rises near Pennant Hills and flows generally north northeast before reaching its confluence with the Hawkesbury River about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of Brooklyn, and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) from the Tasman Sea. The river descends 86 metres (282 ft) over its 22 kilometres (14 mi) course.

The creek is characterised by a drowned river valley estuary, consisting of steeply incised gorges with surrounding plateau areas. It is fed by a number of small tributaries that drain the steep catchments adjacent to the waterway. The tidal limit is at the Rocky Fall Rapids, some 23 kilometres (14 mi) from the creek's mouth.

The area around the creek is most developed near its source in the south, influenced by the development of Hornsby and its surrounding suburbs. As the creek flows to the north, it flows through a catchment area that is mostly bushland and includes parts of the Marramarra National Park, the Muogamarra Nature Reserve, and the Berowra Valley Regional Park. The steep sides of the creek have limited development directly adjacent to the Berowra Creek estuary, most of which is only accessible by boat. However the small settlements of Berowra Waters and Berowra Creek are both located on its banks. The creek is a popular destination for boating, fishing and other outdoor recreational activities.

There are only two crossings of Berowra Creek. Galston Road crosses the upper reaches via a bridge in the Galston Gorge, between Galston and Hornsby Heights. Further downstream, the Berowra Waters Ferry, a toll-free car ferry, crosses between Berowra Waters and Berowra Heights.

The name, Berowra, is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning "place of many winds".

Berowra Creek seen from the end of the Hawkesbury Track

References

^ "Berowra Creek". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
^ "Berowra Creek". Street & Place Names Index. Hornsby Shire Council. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
^ "Berowra Creek, NSW". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
"Lower Hawkesbury Estuary Management Plan" (PDF). BMT WBM Pty Ltd. Hornsby Shire Council. November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
^ "Berowra Creek Estuary Management Study and Management Plan" (PDF). BMT WBM Pty Ltd. Hornsby Shire Council. March 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

External links

"Berowra Creek Estuary Management Plan Review" (PDF). BMT WBM Pty Ltd. Hornsby Shire Council. July 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
Niall Clugston (2008). "Collingridge Point". Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 26 September 2015.

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
Category

33°32′18″S 151°08′39″E / 33.53845°S 151.1442417°E / -33.53845; 151.1442417

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