  thumb|heritage-listed sacred heart presbytery thumb|walter burley griffin home coppins thumb|heritage-listed home grandview thumb|merrivale thumb|macquarie cottage pymble is a suburb on the upper north shore of sydney in the state of new south wales, australia. pymble is  north-west of the sydney central business district in the local government area of ku-ring-gai council.gregory's sydney street directory (gregory's publishing company) 2007 west pymble is a separate suburb, surrounded by lane cove national park. ==history== based on settlers' accounts the land that came to be known as pymble was traversed by, and at least periodically inhabited by, what was by that time the "remains" of the cammeraigal clan or tribe of the kuringai (also known as guringai) aborigines. the cammeraigal had occupied the land between the lane cove river, hawkesbury and east to the coast. they would travel from grounds at cowan creek to the parramatta river via pymble - passing west through the land where pymble ladies' college now stands, through the lane cove valley and north ryde.north shore sydney, les thorne, pg 39 en route they would reportedly hold corroborees at the current site of the pymble reservoir on telegraph rd and "camped on the hill...at the junction of merrivale rd and selwyn st." ku-ring-gai oral histories, reprinted in "focus on ku-ring-gai", pg 13 "the ku-ring-gai tribe" by dr j kohen according to robert pymble ii "the aborigines had faded out by about 1856, mainly because of smallpox." pymble is named after robert pymble (1776â1861), an influential early settler whose 1823 land grant comprised
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