Clermont Avenue
Named after the 1861 home of Henry David Bray, third Mayor of Concord Municipality.
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Churchill Crescent
Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister during WW2
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Church Street
Name changed to Coles Street approximately 1915.
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Castlereagh Street
To honour Robert Stewart Castlereagh (1769-1822) of high repute as a British Foreign Minister.
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Cabarita Road
Cabarita is an aboriginal word (pronounced “Caba-reeta”), that probably means “by the water”. It was the name given to the point of land at the north-west corner of Hen and Chicken Bay. Exactly when the name “Cabarita” was given to the locality is not known, but by 1871 William Cox and John Dowswell had properties…
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Burwood Road
Previously known as Coomer’s Lane, Neich’s Lane, and Wharf Road before being re-named Burwood Road. The latter name comes from “Burwood Farm”, the name given to a grant made to Captain Thomas Rowley, Adjutant of the New South Wales Corps in 1799, and named after his home in Cornwall.
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Burton Street
(In 1870 it was called “Corner Street”.) Named after a “Mr. Burton, who lived on the corner of the street”, according to an anonymous note in the archives of the Concord Historical Society. I prefer to consider that it might refer to Sir William Westbrook Burton (Puisine Judge of the Supreme Court of New South…
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Broughton Street
William Broughton (1768-1821) was a “First Fleeter”. He was appointed the Storekeeper at Parramatta, and was granted thirty acres at Concord in 1793.
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Brewer Street
Named after Henry Brewer (1739-1796), who became Provost-Marshall of the Colony in 1788. In 1793 he was granted fifty acres at Concord, east of the present Majors Bay Road. Brewer Street marks the approximate southern boundary of his grant.
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Brays Road
To commemorate the Bray Family of Rhodes, of whom much is told in “Concord – a Centenary History”.
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Braddon Street
To honour Sir Henry Braddon, politician and businessman, prominent in various community organisations in N.S.W.
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Bertram Street
not known