Abstract
Camden is situated on the floodplain of the Nepean River, on the traditional land of the Dharawal people in an area known as the Cowpastures. The town is bordered in the east and north by the Nepean River, in the south by Burragorang road and Camden Bypass and in the west by Matahill Creek. The town area had a population of 3,063 in 2001 and until the 1950s was the hub of a district which took in the rural villages to the west of Camden, including Yerranderie, Burragorang Valley, The Oaks and Oakdale, and to the north, Elderslie and Narellan. Today Camden is being engulfed by the rural-urban fringe of Sydney’s metropolitan area.
Highlights
The Camden area’s distinctive landscape has moulded the community’s identity and sense of place
The central town area is enclosed on three sides by a sweeping bend in the Nepean River, which regularly floods the surrounding farmland and lower parts of the town
The first land sales in the village were held in 1841, which stifled the growth of the existing European settlements in the area at Cawdor (1822), Narellan (1827), Cobbitty (1828) and Elderslie (1828)
Summary
The Camden area’s distinctive landscape has moulded the community’s identity and sense of place. Many immigrant families came to the area under Governor Bourke’s 1835 plan and settled on the gentry’s estates as tenant farmers, some eventually establishing businesses in the new privately developed village of Camden.
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