Colonial architecture in Thompson, Square, Windsor. The third-oldest place of British settlement on the Australian continent. Settlement in Windsor was first established about 1791, near the head of navigation on the Hawkesbury River (known as Deerubbin in Dharuk) and taking advantage of the fertile river flats for agriculture. The area was originally called Green Hills, but renamed Windsor (after Windsor in England). The town was officially proclaimed in a Government and General Order issued from Government House, Sydney, dated 15 December 1810, Governor Lachlan Macquarie having marked out the district of Green Hills, which he ... called Windsor, after Windsor-on-the-Thames.
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