Wilberforce, New South Wales

Wilberforce is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury.

Wilberforce is one of the original settlements established as a township by Lachlan Macquarie, colonial governor of New South Wales 1810–21.

It was named after William Wilberforce (1759–1833), who was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

Wilberforce has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: The historic St John's Anglican Church was designed by Edmund Thomas Blacket[10] and built by J. Atkinson of Windsor.

Relocated to a position in front of the schoolhouse, the grave marks the death of a child bitten by a snake on a nearby property.

Wilberforce un marked is on north side of River opposite Pitt Town