Wilberforce

Wilberforce is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury. It is just beyond the outer suburbs of north-west Sydney and lies on the western bank of the Hawkesbury River.

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Type: Suburb with 1,820 residents
Description: town in New South Wales, Australia
Also known as: “Wilberforce, New South Wales” and “Wilberforce, New South Wales, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wilberforce Park and Wilberforce Cemetery.

Wilberforce Park

Park

Wilberforce Park is a heritage-listed public parkland at 47 George Road, Wilberforce, City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia. It was first established in 1810 by Governor Lachlan Macquarie and surveyed by James Meehan in 1811.

Wilberforce Cemetery

Cemetery

Wilberforce Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at Clergy Road, Wilberforce, City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia. It was laid out by surveyor James Meehan and established in 1811.

Australiana Pioneer Village

Theme park

Photo: Gemma Stiles, CC BY 2.0.

Australiana Pioneer Village is a heritage-listed open-air museum at Rose Street, Wilberforce, New South Wales, an outer suburb of Sydney, Australia. It was built from 1969 to 1970. The property is owned by the Hawkesbury City Council.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cornwallis and Cattai National Park.

Cornwallis

Hamlet

Cornwallis is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the City of Hawkesbury north-west of Windsor. Cornwallis is bounded in the north and the east by the Hawkesbury River. Cornwallis is situated 5 km southwest of Wilberforce.

Cattai National Park

Photo: Somphol, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Cattai National Park is a protected national park in the Hawkesbury region of Sydney, New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 424-hectare national park is situated approximately 55 kilometres northwest of the Sydney central business district and approximately 13 km from Windsor.

Wilberforce

Categories: town and locality
Location: City of Hawkesbury, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-33.55628° or 33° 33′ 23″ south

Longitude

150.84326° or 150° 50′ 36″ east

Population

1,820

Elevation

18 metres (59 feet)

Open location code

4RRGCRVV+F8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 117051767

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

2143685

Wikidata ID

Q8000081

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Wilberforce” goes by many names.

Asturian: “Wilberforce”
Dutch: “Wilberforce, New South Wales”
French: “Wilberforce”
Hebrew: “ווילברפורס, ניו סאות‘ ויילס”
Hebrew: “ווילברפורס”
Hebrew: “וילברפורס, ניו סאות‘ ויילס”
Polish: “Wilberforce (Australia)”
Polish: “Wilberforce”
Romanian: “Wilberforce, Australia”
Romanian: “Wilberforce, New South Wales”
Urdu: “ولبر فورس، نیو ساؤتھ ویلز”

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