page_title: Cumberland Highway
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Cumberland Highway / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Cumberland Hwy, Carlingford
context_page_description: The Cumberland Highway is a 34-kilometre long urban highway located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The highway links the Pacific Highway and Pacific Motorway at Pearces Corner, Wahroonga in the northeast with the Hume Highway at Liverpool in the southwest.
  The entire length of Cumberland Highway is designated route A28.
  The name of the highway is derived from the Cumberland Plain and Cumberland County. The name Cumberland was conferred on the County by Governor Phillip in honour of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.
context_section_description: The original western Sydney Bypass was Ring Road 5, which ran  from the Pacific Highway and the Hume Highway with Parramatta in between. In 1974, Ring Road 5 was superseded by State Route 55. The growth of Sydney's west had instead turned it into a primary arterial with huge increase in freight traffic.
caption: The Cumberland Highway and Pennant Hills Road overhead road sign north-eastbound at Carlingford.
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