Wynyard Park

Park or Open space

Park in central Sydney, originally site of barracks parade ground.

Names
Alternate
Barracks Square
Alternate
Parade Ground

Wynyard Park

by Anne-Maree Whitaker, 2008

 

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Once a parade ground for the army barracks, Wynyard Park has been open space since before Europeans arrived. During the second half of the nineteenth century it was an elegant residential square with a park in the middle. From the 1880s, it has been a public transport hub.
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