Area: North Parramatta

Riding North you will find the Male Ward, Norma Parker Centre, and Parramatta Gaol.

Male Ward No. 1

From 1804 female convicts were housed in the original Female Factory, atop the first gaol on the site of Prince Alfred Park. By 1817 this had become overrun, and in 1818 Gov Macquarie instructed Francis Greenway to design an institution for 300 femal...

Norma Parker Centre

This was the Roman Catholic Orphanage from 1844 till 1882. It later became the notorious Parramatta Girls Home. It has been a correctional facility since the 1980s. ...

Parramatta Gaol

The gaol was built by James Houison and Nathaniel Payten between 1837 and 1853. ...