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Orphan School Creek is a tributary of Prospect Creek and is located entirely within the City of Fairfield . As the name suggests, Orphan School Creek was named after an orphan school in the area. ^[1]

Geography [ edit ]

It starts in Allambie Road Reserve, Bossley Park , on the border with Edensor Park , and flows in a generally eastern direction before emptying into Prospect Creek. The creek is a mostly natural waterway that is surrounded by Coastal Swamp Oak Forest , with only the middle reach flowing through a concrete channel and piped system (around Wakeley ). ^[2] It is approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in length, and has two tributaries, Clear Paddock Creek and Green Valley Creek .

Crossings [ edit ]

The following roads and railways form crossings over Orphan School Creek. From west to east, following the course of the creek, they are:

Belfield Road
Sweethaven Road
Mimosa Road
L P T Way
Moonlight Road
Hamilton Road
King Road
Cumberland Highway
Sackville Street
Railway Parade
Main Southern Railway

See also [ edit ]

v t e Waterways of the Sydney Metropolitan catchment, New South Wales , Australia
Major inlets and harbours	Botany Bay Broken Bay Middle Harbour Port Jackson Port Hacking
Minor bays and coves	Akuna Balls Head Bantry Berrys Blackwattle Burraneer Canada Careening Cove Cockle Dolans Double Elizabeth Gwawley Gymea Hen & Chicken Homebush Iron Cove Lavender Mosman Neutral Oatley Rose Rozelle Rushcutters Towlers Watsons Weeney White Woolooware
Lagoons	Dee Why Curl Curl Manly Narrabeen
Rivers	Cooks Duck Georges Hacking Hawkesbury Lane Cove Lennox (proposed) Nepean Parramatta Pittwater Woronora
Creeks	A'Becketts Angus Archer Badgerys Bardwell Bare Bedford Bellamy Farm Bellbird Bells Berowra Bidjigal Bilgola Blacktown Blaxland Blue Gum Boggywell Bonds Breakfast Brennans Brickmakers Bunbury Curran Bungarribee Burdekin Byrnes Cabramatta Caddies Cahill Camp Careel Carroll Charity Claremont Clear Paddock Creek Coal and Candle Coopers Cosgrove Cowan Coxs (Belfield) Cup and Saucer Darling Mills Deadmans Devlin Duck Eastern Erskine Eskdale Excelsior Finlaysons First Ponds Forbes Green Valley Frenchs Glenbrook Gore Grantham Greystanes Haslams Hunts Iron Cove Johnstons Kemps Knapsack Lalor Little Lowes Marsden McCarrs McKenzies McMahon's Maxwells Middle Harbour Mill Minchinbury O'Hares Orphan School Orphan School (Fairfield) Pendle Hill Powells Prospect Punchbowl Quakers Reedy Rileys Ropes Saleyards Salt Pan Sawmill Scout Second Ponds Smalls Smiths South Still Stoney Subiaco Tarban Terrys Thompsons Toongabbie Two Vineyard Werrington Whites Williams Wolli
Canals and streams	Alexandra Canal Busby's Bore Guildford West pipehead and water supply canal Hawthorne Canal Tank Stream Upper Canal System
Reservoirs	Balmain (disused) Botany Swamps Centennial Park Lake Burragorang Manly Dam Reserve Paddington (disused) Penshurst Petersham Lake Parramatta Prospect Upper Nepean Scheme Waverley
Adjoining rivers and bays	Akuna Brisbane Water Burke Cataract Colo Cordeaux Coxs Grose Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kedumba Kowmung Macdonald Mooney Mooney Mulwaree Nattai Tarlo Warragamba Wollondilly

References [ edit ]

^ New South Wales Government (2011). "Land next to male orphan school: Statement of Significance" . Retrieved 7 August 2013 .
^ Fairfield City Council (7 August 2013). "Creeks Rivers and Wetlands" . Retrieved 7 August 2013 . ^{[
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