{"id":159,"date":"2010-06-19T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T05:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menangle.com.au\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:28:18","slug":"cowpasturesbaragal-place-names","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/?page_id=159","title":{"rendered":"Cowpastures\/Baragal &#8211; place names"},"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>Cowpastures<\/strong> (Camden, NSW)<br>Name first used by Governor John Hunter in 1795 to describe the Camden region, south-west of Sydney. The name reflected the place-name usage in England to describe the common grazing land near a village. To the northwards the &#8216;Cowpastures&#8217; was ill-defined (beyond Narellan) and to the south its limit was Stonequarry Creek. The Aborigines called the place &#8216;Baragil&#8217;, or &#8216;Baragal&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cowpastures Road<\/strong> (NSW)<br>Opened as a track from the settlement of Prospect Hill to the Cowpastures in 1806.<\/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\/ Cowpastures (Camden, NSW)Name first used by Governor John Hunter in 1795 to describe the Camden region, south-west of Sydney. The name reflected the place-name usage in England to describe the common grazing land near a village. To the northwards the &#8216;Cowpastures&#8217; was ill-defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":74,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/1191"}],"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=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}