* Location
Badgerys Creek, also known as Badgery’s Creek, is a suburb of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia, located approximately 51 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the City of Liverpool & Penrith. It is part of the Greater Western Sydney region and is adjacent to the suburbs of Kemps Creek and Austral.
* History
James Badgery was a British-born farmer and miller who, in 1806, was granted 840 acres in the suburb that bears his name today. His original land grant was on the north side of Elizabeth Drive; land which today is used for farming research by the CSIRO and University of Sydney. Badgery named his property Exeter Farm but the creek running through the property became known as Badgery’s Creek and that name was eventually applied to the local area.
Badgery bought other land to the south of his grant and after he died, the area was subdivided in the 1880s, vastly increasing the local population. Badgerys Creek Post Office opened on 10 July 1894 and closed in 1989. A school was established in 1895 and the area gradually developed as a rural suburb which by 1981 had a population of 1,560.
In 1986, the Federal Government announced that the Second Sydney Airport would be sited at Badgerys Creek. The government bought several properties for that purpose.
Western Sydney Airport Research
* Aboriginal Cultural Heritage
* European & Other Heritage
Places of Interest