Positioned in the heart of Brisbane Water, on a peninsula around which Cockle Creek runs, is the seaside village of Davistown. Located in the popular Central Coast region, there are plenty of recreational activities in the region include fishing, boating, sailing and bushwalking.

Davistown was named for the concentration of Davis family members living in this part of Cockle Creek. In 1851 the shipwright Benjamin Davis purchased the former James Marks property Burramun. Ben (for whom Bensville was later named) subsequently sold portions of his land to his shipwright brothers Thomas, Rock and Edward. The area came to be populated with the Davis’s and their families, hence the name Davistown.

Source: Davistown - a brief history
(Compiled by the Local Studies Librarian, Gosford City Library, May 2006)

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