Historic buildings

• Located in the Lower Prospect Canal
• The Aqueduct was completed in the 1880s for the opening of the Upper Nepean Scheme in 1888.
• It is constructed of brick, is 225 metres long and has 22 arches, each with a 9.1 metre span.
• Today the Aqueduct is maintained for stand-by use.
• Large concrete plugs have been installed to prevent water from the canal entering the Aqueduct.

• Located at 222 Dunmore Street, Pendle Hill.
• Dunmore House was constructed in the 1880s.
• Its verandas are majestic with large amounts of delicate iron lace and white marble tiles creating an opulent effect.
• The house overlooked the surrounding land of Wentworthville, which later became Pendle Hill.
• The property and house are now owned and operated as part of the Church of Christ home and school.

• Located off Walpole Street in Holroyd Gardens
• John Hay Goodlet founded the brickworks in 1884.
• It is one of the oldest cement, brick and tile works in the district.
• Its remains demonstrate the original and new technologies used at the site. 

• 25 Byron Road, Guildford
• The Linnwood homestead was built by George McCredie in 1891 and is set on 5 hectares of land.
• McCredie was a prominent businessman, Mayor of Prospect & Sherwood, and Independent member for the state seat of Central Cumberland, an independent free trader and an advocate of female suffrage.
• Presbyterian Church services were held on the property and continued until after George McCredie’s death in 1903.
• The George McCredie Memorial Church was built and opened in 1905.
• The property was sold to the State Government in 1921 and became known as the Guildford Truant School for Boys.
• In later years it became Lynwood Hall, a Domestic Training School for Girls.
• Linnwood was listed on the State Heritage Register in 2003.

For more information, see The Friends of Linnwood website

• Corner of Steele Street and the Great Western High
• Mays Hill Cemetery was active from 1848, and is an historic record of the people of Holroyd.
• The headstones provide outstanding examples of monumental craftsmanship.
• It has many traditional and rare plant species within the site.
• The cemetery overlooks Mays Hill Park.
• The last burial in the cemetery was in 1991.

For more details, and information about the pioneers buried at the cemetery, see the Friends of Mays Hill Cemetery website.

• 7 McKern Street, Wentworthville
• St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church was originally built in 1840 in Church Street, Parramatta and was completed in 1849.
• The first Presbyterian service in Parramatta was held on 19 June, 1823 in ‘Mr Elder’s New Room’ in George Street, Parramatta. Services were irregular as ministers travelled from Sydney.
• By 1835 arrangements were made for regular services to be held in the Old Court House on the corner of George and Church Street.
• In 1835 land was granted and money was raised to build a church on 217 Church Street – the former Commonwealth Bank site.
• The church was designed by David Lennox and construction ran from 1840 to 1849.
• This church was later moved to 7 McKern Street, Wentworthville and reconstructed brick by brick.

Source: Parramatta Heritage Centre website, 2019’