Balmain Parks and Reserves
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Balmain
, a suburb of Sydney
, Australia
, is home to an array of delightful parks and reserves. Many are located by the water with magnificent views of Sydney harbour. Many residents of the suburb realise the importance of green open space in the inner-city neighbourhood.
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Balmain, New South Wales
Balmain is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Balmain is located slightly west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Leichhardt....
, a suburb of Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, is home to an array of delightful parks and reserves. Many are located by the water with magnificent views of Sydney harbour. Many residents of the suburb realise the importance of green open space in the inner-city neighbourhood.
List of Parks and Reserves in Balmain
- Illoura Reserve (Peacock Point)
- Thornton Park (at Darling Street Wharf)
- The Zig Zag
- Cameron Cove (Home to Ewenton House)
- Yurulbin ParkYurulbin Park, New South WalesYurulbin Park is a 1.5 acre public open space located at the end of Yurulbin Point on the Balmain Peninsula in the suburb of Birchgrove in the Municipality of Leichhardt in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.-Description:...
on Yurulbin Point (formerly Long Nose Point) - Gladstone Park
- Elkington Park (Dawn Fraser Pool)
- White Bay Park
- Ann Cashman Reserve (Beattie St)
- Issy Wyner Reserve
- Nick OriglassNick OriglassNick Origlass was an Australian Trotskyist notable for his electoral success in becoming mayor of Balmain, an unusual feat for a revolutionary in Australia, and an unusual electoral success within Trotskyism's international history. Origlass became mayor on a Balmain Labour Party ticket...
Park - Callan Park (Home of the Callan Park Lunatic Asylum for the Mentally and Criminally InsaneCallan Park Lunatic Asylum for the Mentally and Criminally InsaneThe Callan Park Hospital for the Insane was an insane asylum located in the grounds of Callan Park, an area on the shores of Iron Cove in the Sydney suburb of Lilyfield in Australia. In 1915 the facility was renamed Callan Park Mental Hospital, and again in 1976 to Callan Park Hospital. Since...
, NSW Writers Centre and Sydney College of the ArtsSydney College of the ArtsThe Sydney College of the Arts in Rozelle, Sydney, Australia is the visual arts faculty of the University of Sydney. It is housed in the Kirkbride complex, a cluster of sandstone buildings designed by James Barnet, the government architect in the late 19th century...
) - Simmons Point Reserve
- Birchgrove ParkBirchgrove ParkBirchgrove Park is a park and sports ground located in Birchgrove, New South Wales on the waterfront of Sydney Harbour. It is the location of Birchgrove Oval, a historic rugby league football ground which served as the original home of the Balmain Tigers club...
- Mort Bay Park
- Peacock Point Park (East Balmain)
- Punch Park (Wortley Street)
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