{"id":157,"date":"2010-06-19T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T05:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menangle.com.au\/?page_id=157"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:28:00","slug":"menangle-place-name","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/?page_id=157","title":{"rendered":"Menangle &#8211; place name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Journeys in Time 1809-1822<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Journals of Lachlan &amp; Elisabeth Macquarie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.mq.edu.au\/all\/journeys\/places\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.lib.mq.edu.au\/all\/journeys\/places\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Manangle<\/strong> (NSW)<br>A 2,000 acre farm on the banks of the Nepean granted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.mq.edu.au\/all\/journeys\/people\/peoplea_f.html#davidson_walter\">Walter Davidson<\/a> by Governor King on 18 December 1805. Originally called &#8216;Belmont&#8217; the land had a river frontage onto the Nepean River and was straddled on either side by two grants to John Macarthur known as Upper Camden, and Lower Camden (totalling 5000 acres).[Macarthur had been permitted to take his land grant in two parts to maximise his access to the river]. The combined effect was that the land grants to Davidson and Macarthur extended along the left bank (western side) of the Nepean for a distance of more than 8 miles (12 kilometres). When Davidson returned to England in March 1809, Macarthur had the free use of his friend&#8217;s grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Aboriginal name &#8216;Menangle&#8217; (or &#8216;Manangle&#8217;) came from the pond which stood on Davidson&#8217;s land. [Similarly &#8216;Carabeely&#8217; was the name of the pond on Macarthur&#8217;s Upper Camden grant, while &#8216;Belgenny&#8217; or &#8216;Belkennie&#8217; the pond on the Lower Camden grant].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journeys in Time 1809-1822 The Journals of Lachlan &amp; Elisabeth Macquarie http:\/\/www.lib.mq.edu.au\/all\/journeys\/places\/ Manangle (NSW)A 2,000 acre farm on the banks of the Nepean granted to Walter Davidson by Governor King on 18 December 1805. Originally called &#8216;Belmont&#8217; the land had a river frontage onto the Nepean River and was straddled on either side by two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":74,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-157","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions\/1190"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}