Colebee is a

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separate ...

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, in the state of

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. Colebee is located 47 kilometres west of the

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, in the

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of the

City of Blacktown Blacktown City Council is a local government area in Western Sydney, situated on the Cumberland Plain, approximately west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1906 as the Blacktow ...

and is part of the

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region.

History

Colebee was named after C. Colebee who is believed to have been the first

indigenous Australian Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...

to have been granted land in the Blacktown area, at Plumpton Ridge. He was the son of

Yarramundi Yarramundi (ca. 1760 – after 1818) was an Indigenous Australian called by Europeans "the chief of the Richmond Tribe" or "Tribes". He was a member of the Boorooberongal clan of the Darug people, and was a ''garadyi'' or "doctor". Yarramundi ...

Heritage listings

Colebee has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Richmond Road:

Colebee and Nurragingy Land Grant Colebee and Nurragingy Land Grant is a heritage-listed former farm at Richmond Road, Colebee, City of Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Colebee and Nurragingy's Land Grant, Colebee Release Area, 773, 777 and 783 ...

References

Suburbs of Sydney City of Blacktown {{Sydney-geo-stub