Potts Point
'Potts Point is a small, densely-populated suburb located 3
kilometres east of the CBD. It sits on a ridge immediately east of Woolloomooloo, west of Elizabeth Bay and Rushcutters Bay and north of
Darlinghurst. The suburb has a
roughly trapezoidal shape, and at its greatest extent is no more than 1
kilometre long by 200 metres wide. Potts Point's eastern boundary is Macleay
Street. The suburb's other boundaries include Darlinghurst Road to the
southeast, William Street to the south, Brougham Street and part of Cowper Road
to the west.'
Macleay Street, Potts Point
'Potts Point is named for Joseph Hyde Potts, who was employed by the Bank of New South Wales. He purchased
six-and-a-half acres of harbourside land in an area then known as Woolloomooloo
Hill - which he renamed Potts Point.
Much of the area that today comprises Potts Point and the adjacent suburb of
Elizabeth Bay, originally constituted part of a land grant to Alexander Macleay,
who was the New South
Wales Colonial Secretary from 1826 to 1837, and for whom Macleay Street is
named. NSW Judge Advocate, John
Wylde (for whom Wylde Street is named) was another 19th-century public
servant who owned land in the area.'
[Source WikipediA.]
