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Brickworks occupies a large area immediately north of Bedfordale Hill Road, and on the opposite side of Bedfordale Hill Road is a reserve named Tredale Park. The section immediately south of this, the arteries of which are Talus Drive and Rise Court, contain larger suburban lots (semi-rural) with housing stock mostly dating to the 1990s and the Schoenstatt Chapel. Immediately south of this is a caravan park, known as Hillside Garden Village. The southernmost area is that which was formerly the vineyard, bounded on the north by Deadman's Gully and on the south by Ley's Road. This area comprises suburban lots, those on the more elevated ground being larger and of a semi-rural character.
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McCarthy's bald patch - A historical name for the large bare patch that until c.2005 was a landmark on the hillside above the South
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An unnamed, seasonal stream originating from springs on the escarpment forms a steep-sided ravine which passes under the South
Western Highway between the caravan park and former vineyards. The ravine is known as 'Dead Man's Gully'. The lower course of the stream is indistinct, but passes under the
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Much of the eastern boundary of Mount Richon adjoins parkland of regenerated bush, and some the more elevated parts of the suburb retain remnant native trees and understorey. Kangaroos, individual or in groups of up to twenty, are regular visitors to many of the properties in the suburb - attracted
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Bungendore Park near the south-eastern corner of the suburb, and takes the name Cooliabbera Creek from the property on which the southern watershed is located. This creek flows out of a steep sided valley in the escarpment. It runs parallel to Leys Rise,
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Schoenstatt Shrine and under the highway into the Armadale Brickworks site. This stream discharges into the Wungong Brook half a kilometre west of the intersection of Rowley and Eleventh Roads.
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Bedfordale Hill Road, contains suburban housing mostly of the 1960s through to the 1980s. Older housing, some as early as the 1930s, fronts onto the South-Western Highway. The disused shale quarry of the old
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Neerigen Brook flows northwards alongside the Albany Highway from Bedfordale Hill Road to near the intersection of Carradine Road. It joins the Wungong Brook at the northern end of Twelfth Road in Westfield, the two brooks forming what is from that point named the Southern River - a major
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Chateau Court and was filled in where the Richon Vineyard cellars were constructed (flows having been diverted around the southern side of the cellar building). The stream is not discernible west of the South Western Highway.
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Marian's Vineyard - Not a current name in this locality, this was the original name given to the vineyard after which the suburb is named. In its early years, the vineyard was also referred to as the 'Slavonian vineyards'.
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Cooliabberra - A street name, based on the Aboriginal name given to the farming property in the valley immediately south-east of the suburb. A number of variants of this name exist, including 'Cooliabbera' and 'Cooliabra'.
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Dead Man's Gully - The name of a steep ravine which is crossed by the South Western Highway, referencing an incident in which a horse rider was killed in the 19th century. The same gully is also named 'Breakneck Gully'.
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Breakneck Gully - The name of a steep ravine which is crossed by the South Western Highway, referencing an incident in which a horse rider was killed in the 19th century. The same gully is also named Dead Man's Gully.
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South Western Railway just south of the crossing to Wungong Road, and from this point the stream joined its northern counterpart near Ninth Road and one kilometre south-east of this discharges into the Wungong Brook.
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Highways south to Leys Rise, is bounded on the west by South-Western Highway and is bounded on the east by Albany Highway and Bungendore Park. Mount Richon is named after a vineyard that formerly existed in the area.
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Tredale - A street name that corresponded with the rail stop south of Armadale used by students of Armadale High School. For a time (1950s-70s), the south-eastern part of the Armadale township was known as Tredale.
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Sapphire - A street name in the northern part of the suburb, being one of eight street names referencing precious or semi-precious stones. These names have no historical or geological significance to the location.
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Amethyst - A street name in the northern part of the suburb, being one of eight street names referencing precious or semi-precious stones. These names have no historical or geological significance to the location.
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Emerald - A street name in the northern part of the suburb, being one of eight street names referencing precious or semi-precious stones. These names have no historical or geological significance to the location.
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Crystal - A street name in the northern part of the suburb, being one of eight street names referencing precious or semi-precious stones. These names have no historical or geological significance to the location.
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Garnet - A street name in the northern part of the suburb, being one of eight street names referencing precious or semi-precious stones. These names have no historical or geological significance to the location.
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Opal - A street name in the northern part of the suburb, being one of eight street names referencing precious or semi-precious stones. These names have no historical or geological significance to the location.
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Onyx - A street name in the northern part of the suburb, being one of eight street names referencing precious or semi-precious stones. These names have no historical or geological significance to the location.
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Jade - A street name in the northern part of the suburb, being one of eight street names referencing precious or semi-precious stones. These names have no historical or geological significance to the location.
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Hillside - A street name, based on the name of the small farm developed by Congregational lay-preacher Joseph Serls and his wife Mary on Albany Highway just south of the Bedfordale Hill Road intersection.
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just outside the southern boundary of the suburb, and joins the stream from Dead Man's Gully just north of the intersection of Eleventh and Rowley Roads, after which it discharges into the Wungong Brook.
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