{"id":140,"date":"2010-06-18T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T06:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menangle.com.au\/?p=140"},"modified":"2010-06-18T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T06:07:52","slug":"cowpastures-place-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Cowpastures &#8211; place name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Journeys in Time 1809-1822<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Journals of Lachlan &amp; Elisabeth Macquarie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.mq.edu.au\/all\/journeys\/places\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.lib.mq.edu.au\/all\/journeys\/places\/<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cowpastures<\/strong> (Camden, NSW)<br \/>\nName 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<p><strong>Cowpastures Road<\/strong> (NSW)<br \/>\nOpened 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}