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River in New South Wales, Australia

Ropes

Etymology	In honour of Anthony Rope
Location
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
Region	Sydney basin (IBRA), Greater Western Sydney
Local government areas	Liverpool, Fairfield, Penrith, Blacktown
Physical characteristics

Source
• location	near Cecil Park
• elevation	103 m (338 ft)

Mouth	confluence with South Creek
• location	Ropes Crossing
• elevation	35 m (115 ft)
Length	23 km (14 mi)
Basin features
River system	Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment
Nature reserve	Wianamatta Regional Park

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

Course and features

Ropes Creek rises in the south-western suburbs of Sydney, near Devils Back Tunnel, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north north-east of Cecil Park. The creek flows generally north before reaching its confluence with South Creek, in the suburb of Ropes Crossing, north of the Wianamatta Regional Park. The creek descends 68 metres (223 ft) over its 23 kilometres (14 mi) course.

Ropes Creek is transversed by the Westlink M7 at Cecil Park; the M4 Western Motorway between Erskine Park and Colyton; and the Great Western Highway and the Main Western railway line east of Oxley Park.

The creek in named in honour of Anthony Rope, a First Fleet convict who it is assumed was granted land fronting the creek.

Part of surrounding area to the north-west professionally assessed for its ecological values in 2015, documenting occurrences of threatened species.

References

^ "Ropes Creek". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
EcoLogical Australia. "Ropes Creek Precinct - Biodiversity and Riparian Assessment" (PDF).

External links

"Ropes Creek" (PDF). State of the waterways: Management plan. City of Blacktown. 2005.
- State of the waterways: Ropes Creek - Associated Map 1 (PDF) (Map). City of Blacktown. 2005.
- State of the waterways: Ropes Creek - Associated Map 2 (PDF) (Map). City of Blacktown. 2005.
"Friends of Ropes Creek". website

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

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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°50′S 150°48′E / 33.833°S 150.800°E / -33.833; 150.800

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