Bungarribee estate was established in 1822 by Colonel John Campbell (1770–1827) for the purpose of breeding horses for the East India Company.

The archeological site around Campbell's Bungarribee Homestead was listed in 2000 on the NSW Heritage Register,[2] though the building was demolished in the 1950s.

[3] One of his sons was Charles James Fox Campbell, a pioneer pastoralist in South Australia, after whom the Adelaide suburb of Campbelltown is named.

A subsequent owner, Charles Smith, established Bungarribee stud shortly after 1830, which only had pure-bred English horses.

[1] Approximately 500 metres from the northern end of the suburb is Doonside railway station, which is on the Western Line of the Sydney Trains network.