Location
Menai is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 29 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire. (wikipedia)
History
Menai is named after Menai Bridge, a town on the Menai Strait in Wales, Great Britain.
The area now known as Menai was originally called Bangor in 1895 by the land’s owner, a farmer named Owen Jones, after his birthplace Bangor in Wales. To avoid confusion with Bangor in Tasmania, the Postmaster General’s Office changed the suburb name to Menai in 1910. Menai Bridge in Wales lies opposite Bangor on the Menai Strait. When Menai expanded, the eastern section became Bangor again. (wikipedia)
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