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Suburb History

 

Granville

Postcode : 2142

In 1855 Granville was known as Parramatta Junction because it was then the end of the railway line from Sydney to Parramatta. It retained that name until 1880 when 2 public meetings voted that the name be changed.  The name of Granville, in honour of the Earl of Granville, a former colonial secretary was selected.

The present suburb stands on grants once issued to John Harris, Garnham Blaxcell, William Lawson and W.C. Wentworth. The largest was Blaxcell's grant of 1,125 acres which he received in 1806.

The tenth Governor of New South Wales, Charles FitzRoy, set up a hunt club in Granville in the late 1840s to pursue the wild dogs that infested the area. The main road in the area was called Dog Trap Road until 1879 when it became Woodville Road.

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

See also: Holroyd