Woolwich is a Sydney suburb located on the Lower North Shore and Northern Suburbs in the Australian state of New South Wales. Woolwich is located 11 kilometres north-northwest of Sydney’s central business district, within the Municipality of Hunter’s Hill. Hunters Hill protrudes from Woolwich, which is located on a peninsula between the Lane Cove River and the Parramatta River.
The suburb’s name is taken from Woolwich, a London neighbourhood on the banks of the Thames. The Parramatta River was formerly referred to as the “Thames of the Antipodes,” and other neighbouring suburbs were named after Thames communities such as Greenwich, Putney, and Henley.
The indigenous name for this region is “Mookaboola” or “Moocooboola,” which means “waterway confluence.” Clarke’s Point is named after John Clarke, who purchased land here in 1834 and is credited with naming the area was an early settler. In 1835, Samuel Onion, an early landowner with an ironmongery business, gave the neighbourhood its first name, “Onion Point.”
The world’s first green ban, led by a labour union, was put in the area. Jack Mundey and his followers in the Builder’s Labourers Federation opposed the devastation of the local ecosystem. They ultimately prevailed, and “Kelly’s Bush” still exists today.
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