New unnamed road infrastructure for the new Central Sydney Industrial Estate at Rosehill

Council resolution

On Monday 20 November 2023 Council resolved:

(a) That Council endorses the proposed name of Longworth Road for the unnamed roadway which forms part of the development at the former Clyde Refinery terminal located at Durham Street, Rosehill.

(b) That the preferred name for the unnamed roadway be referred to the Geographical Names Board (GNB) of NSW for formal assignment and Gazettal under the Geographical Names Act 1996.

Proposed name

The proposed name for the new unnamed road is Longworth Road, in honour of Isabel Longworth nee Swann.

Isabel Longworth was a Peace Activist and female dentist. Born Isabel Frances Swann on 1 June 1881 in Temora, (1881–1961), she was an ardent peace activist, an anti-conscription campaigner, defender of free speech and secretary of the NSW branch of the Women’s Peace Army.

She was the sixth of 11 children born to Quaker-bred schoolmaster William Swann and his wife, Elizabeth Devlin, and was brought up in a household influenced by the commitment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to oppose participation in war. Throughout World War I, this household was centred on Elizabeth Farm at Parramatta, owned and occupied by the Swann family from 1904 until 1968.

Isabel was registered as a dentist on 20 June 1902 and began practising at Parramatta. Brought up in a pacifist family, her patients included Miles Franklin, Jennie Scott Griffiths, and others, and she joined the Australian Freedom League in 1912.