Bayswater, New Zealand

Infobox New Zealand suburbs
name = Bayswater


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city1 = North Shore City
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established = 1850s (Approx.)
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population = 2,310
popdate = 2001
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north = (Waitemata Harbour)
northeast = Belmont
east = Narrow Neck
southeast = (Waitemata Harbour)
south = (Waitemata Harbour)
southwest = (Waitemata Harbour)
west = (Waitemata Harbour)
northwest = (Waitemata Harbour)


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Bayswater is a suburb of North Shore City in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It lies on a peninsula which juts into the Waitemata Harbour. According to the 2001 census, Bayswater has a population of 2,310.

Bayswater was originally named O'Neill's Point after the first European settlers in the area, brothers Allan and James O'Neill [Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 316] . Originally settling at the point (which still bears their name) at the end of the peninsula in the 1840s, by the 1850s [Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 29] the O'Neills owned the entire peninsula. Some time later the area was renamed Bayswater after one of the more expensive new inner suburbs of London. The London Bayswater is located north of Hyde Park and was developed during the middle of the 19th century. The name was chosen for the Auckland suburb to evoke a sense of style as well as being a straight description of its physical location as a seaside development.

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