Blaxlands Corner is a locality on the North Shore of

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in the state of

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, Australia. Blaxlands Corner is at the intersection of Longueville Road, Northwood Road, and River Road West, in the southern part of

Lane Cove Lane Cove is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lane Cove is nine kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local governmen ...

adjacent to Longueville. It contains the Longueville Sporting Club, a BP service station, a

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, a travel and cruise agency.

Longueville Motor Bus Company Longueville Motor Bus Company was an Australian bus company operating route bus services on Sydney's Lower North Shore. History On 23 October 1922, George Newman commenced operating a service from Longueville wharf to the corner of the Pacif ...

built a depot at 16 Northwood Road in 1939 that was closed by successor

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in the mid-1970s. It was named after Francis Blaxland who owned three acres of land in the area from the 1880s and was a grandson of

Gregory Blaxland Gregory Blaxland (17 June 1778 – 1 January 1853) was an English pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia, noted especially for initiating and co-leading the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains by European settlers. Early life ...

. It was recognised by the

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as a locality in 1995.Blaxland’s Corner
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