History
As first settler in the area, John Hole Duffield was granted the land in 1841 and named it after the village Bicton in South Devon, U.K. In 1917, the first subdivisions included land that had been the Bicton Race Course. In 1921, what was left of Duffield’s original land passed to Edward George and Wilfred Malsbury Higham and was developed from 1925 when the majority of the roads were named. Newer subdivisions have occurred at Castle Hill and on the site of what was the Quarantine Station.