Never before has there beenan attempt to succinctly record the location, history, industries, buildings, calamities, and the populationand their resting places, of over 9,700 cities, towns, villages, hamlets andlocalities (outside Sydney), whether extant or defunct. Neither has a record ever beenmade of the numerous surveyors who laid out our towns and the architects, engineers andbuilders who designed and built their most important structures. The small size ofmost of these places has never justified their inclusion in any standardreference book and, until now, theirlocation and history have been a mystery to most. This book does not merelygive a snapshot of a place at a particular time,but attempts to collate the significantdetails of each place from 1788 to 2018. More specifically, the guide indicateswhen a place was settled, surveyed, gazettedand established; thelocal produce of the district: the public servicesavailable and when they were provided; the natural disasters,accidents,epidemics and infestations that affected theinhabitants: thechurches where they were baptised and married;the factories,mills and mines in which they worked; and the graveyardsand cemeteries where they were buried. In addition, itgives details of many thousands of churches,industrial structures, public buildings, public works andutilities etc. and, in many cases, who designed them, when they were builtand by whom. Italso often shows when they were extended, altered, renovated, repairedor replaced, andwho undertook the work.