TypeBeachDetailsEleanor Beach is on the western shore of the Hawkesbury near its mouth and immediately upstream from Eleanor Bluffs. The name first appears on an Admirality chart of 1866. It may be associated with the Aboriginal world elanora meaning camp by the sea.
Source: Powell, John P.1994, Placenames of the Greater Hawkesbury Region, Hawkesbury River Enterprises, Berowra, p.41.