Bakewell, Northern Territory
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Bakewell is an inner-city suburb
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 of Palmerston
Palmerston, Northern Territory
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, Australia
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. It is 24.9 km SE of the Darwin
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...

 CBD
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. Its Local Government Area
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 is the City of Palmerston
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. Bakewell is bounded to the north by Buscall Avenue, to the west is Chung Wah Terrace, and to the south and east is Lambrick Avenue. Development of the area dates from the 1990s. Bakewell is named after Edward Howard Bakewell, an original land owner.

Recreation

Bakewell has a number of well looked after public parks with public toilets which are cleaned daily. The largest park is on the boarder of the suburb Gunn and Bakewell itself. It includes 3 extremely large ponds and a children's playground which should soon be in the process of rehabilitation. The ponds are man made but they do very slowly run out into the wilderness and new water is pumped back in. At certain times of the year many children come to put remote controlled boats into the water.

External links

  • http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#b
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