Until the mid-19th century, the South Wales valleys were sparsely inhabited. The industrialisation of the Valleys occurred in two phases. First, in the second half of the 18th century, the iron industry was established on the northern edge of the Valleys, mainly by English entrepreneurs. This made South Wales the most important part of Britain for ironmaking until the middle of the …

Leeton is a town located in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.Leeton is situated in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, approximately 550 km west of Sydney and 450 km north of Melbourne. It is the administrative centre of the Leeton Shire Council local government area, which includes neighbouring suburbs, towns and localities such as Yanco, Wamoon, Whitton, …

Glen Davis is a village in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia.The village is located in the local government area of the City of Lithgow.It is located 250 km north-west of Sydney and approximately 80 kilometres north of Lithgow. In the 2006 census, Glen Davis had a population of 354 but this fell to 115 in the 2016 census.

Wentworth Falls (postcode: 2782) is a town in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, situated approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of the Sydney central business district, and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of Katoomba, Australia on the Great Western Highway, with a Wentworth Falls railway station on the Main Western line.The town is at an elevation of 867 …

The City of Canterbury was a local government area in the south–west region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.The city was primarily residential and light industrial in character, and was home to over 130 nationalities. With a majority of its residents being born overseas, the council marketed itself as the "City of Cultural Diversity."

Oxley is a community on the lower Lachlan River in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia near the junction of the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers.The township which developed in the mid-1860s was named after the noted Australian explorer, John Oxley.At the 2006 census, Oxley had a population of 159 people.

Lapstone is a township on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia.Elevation 160 m (525 ft). Lapstone is located 62 kilometres west of the Sydney CBD in the local government area of the City of Blue Mountains and is part of the federal electorate of Macquarie. Lapstone consists mostly of stand-alone housing and has a few public facilities.

Double Bay is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district.It is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra.. Double Bay takes its name from the bay of Sydney Harbour and refers to the two geographical formations between Point Piper and …

South Hams is a local government district on the south coast of Devon, England.Services divide between those provided by its own Council headquartered in Totnes, and those provided by Devon County Council headquartered in the city of Exeter.. Beside Totnes are its towns of Dartmouth, Kingsbridge, Salcombe, and Ivybridge — the most populous with 11,851 residents, …

Camden Council is a local government area in the Macarthur region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.The area is located south west of the Sydney central business district and comprises 201 square kilometres (78 sq mi) with an estimated population at the 2021 census of 119,325. The Mayor of Camden is Cr. Therese Fedeli, a member of the Liberal Party