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Gosford, city, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It is situated at the north end of the Brisbane Water branch of Broken Bay. Gosford was surveyed and founded in 1839 and named for Archibald Acheson, 2nd earl of Gosford. It was merged in 1886 with the privately owned village of East Gosford to form a municipality. Gosford became a shire in 1947 and a city in 1980. It is the principal city of the Broken Bay...

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