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Suburb History

 

Pendle Hill

Postcode : 2145

Pendle Hill began to come to life when the railway came through the area in the 1880's, although the station did not open until 12 April 1924.

All of the suburb was originally part of the acreage owned by D'Arcy Wentworth.  Mr George A. Bond purchased a large part of the farm, bounded by Pendle Way, Dunmore Street and Jones Street and lived in what is now Dunmore House.  He established a cotton spinning mill on his property in 1923 and persuaded the railway authorities to build a platform so his employees would have easy walking from the railway station.

Bond requested that the area be named Pendleton in Lancashire, the centre of England's cotton industry, and Pendle Hill was the result.

Source: Frances Pollon: The Book of Sydney Suburbs, 1988.