© Greystanes High School 2007

Our School History The locality in which our school is built takes the name Greystanes from the historic home on Prospect Hill. This homestead on a 75 acre parcel of land that was originally granted to William Cummings in 1799 and which came into the possession of William Lawson and his family. Possibly the name "Greystanes" given to the land in about 1860, was derived from the "greyish" appearance of surface material which eventually led to the discovery of the Prospect Blue Metal Quarries, and 'stane' being all old Scottish word meaning 'stone'. Our school stands in the south-west corner of a 2,750 acre grant made to the father of William Charles Wentworth, who was a surgeon in the First Fleet, later becoming the surgeon in charge of the Rum Hospital and a Chief Magistrate.The land granted to him included what is now Toongabbie, Pendle Hill and part of Wentworthville and extended as far as Old Prospect Road. The land was subdivided in 1915 into 2 acre farm sites, but the greater part of six of these was resumed in April, 1961 for the purpose of building a secondary school, which we now know as "Greystanes High School".