Longueville is a
suburb
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on the
Lower North Shore of
Sydney
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,
New South Wales
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, 8 kilometres north-west of the
Sydney central business district
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, in the
local government area
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of the
Municipality of Lane Cove
The Lane Cove Council is a local government area located on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The administrative seat of Lane Cove is located north-west of the Sydney central business district.
The Mayor of Lane ...
.
Longueville is a small residential suburb on the
peninsula
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between
Tambourine Bay and Woodford Bay, on the banks of the
Lane Cove River
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. Originally a home to
manufacturing
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industries, the suburb had its beginnings as a residential area in the 1870s. Longueville was officially proclaimed a suburb in the 1920s.
Before settlement, Longueville was the home of the
Cam-mer-ray-gal people of the
Ku-ring-gai Aboriginal Tribe.
Today the suburb is home to some of Australia's most expensive
real estate
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, with the ''
Sydney Morning Herald
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'' ranking it as Sydney's fourth most-expensive suburb.
[Macken, L; Sydney Morning Herald, 17 May 2014; http://smh.domain.com.au/real-estate-news/sydneys-prestige-market-springs-back-into-action-20140516-zrd7l.html]
History
![Longueville 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Longueville_1.JPG)
The area in which Longueville is was originally inhabited by the
Cam-mer-ray-gal Group of the
Ku-ring-gai Aboriginal Tribe. The group, which inhabited the north shore of
Port Jackson
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, was one of the largest in the Sydney area.
In 1831, the area that is now Longueville became home to one of the earliest manufacturing industries, with Rupert Kirk's soap and factory.
Longueville had its beginnings in the 1870s, and at the time encompassed the Lane Cove area, which in turn was then part of
Willoughby.
By 1884, there were just two houses in the area, owned by Joseph Palmer and Henry Lamb. Richard Hayes Harnett, a land speculator, later acquired some of the land and subdivided it into home sites. He later became the first mayor of Mosman.
![KingsfordSmithOvalLonguevilleAfternoon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/KingsfordSmithOvalLonguevilleAfternoon.JPG)
Longueville was officially proclaimed a suburb in the 1920s.
There is some conjecture about where the name Longueville originated,
however a commonly held belief is that the suburb was named after
French nobleman, the
Duc de Longueville. The main streets are said to have been named after his three daughters, Christina, Lucretia and Arabella. A related theory is that the name bears a connection to the
Château de Châteaudun which possesses both a ''Longueville'' wing and a ''Dunois'' wing, with ''Dunois'' being the name of one of the principal streets in Longueville.
Transport
Longueville
Wharf
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provides access to
ferry
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services on
Lane Cove River Cruises. Three Sydney Buses services run through Longueville, going to the
Sydney CBD
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,
Lane Cove
Lane Cove is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lane Cove is nine kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local governmen ...
and
Chatswood.
Houses
![Longueville 2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Longueville_2.JPG)
In 2011, the majority of dwellings were detached houses (99.1%) with some varied architectural styles, including stately
Victorian-style homes,
Federation styles,
Californian bungalows,
weatherboard
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''Clapboard'' in modern Americ ...
cottages, and contemporary waterfront houses.
According to the ''
Sydney Morning Herald
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'', Longueville was ranked Sydney’s fourth most expensive suburb in 2014
with a median property price of $2.7 million, having climbed from the fifth most expensive at $2.35 million in 2011, positioning it as one of Sydney's most prestigious suburbs. In the past few years, the suburb has seen many new homes being constructed and older houses undergoing extensive renovations.
Norfolk Road holds the record for the highest sale price achieved at auction in the suburb.
Population
Demographics
![Longueville Woodford Bay](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Longueville_Woodford_Bay.JPG)
In the 2011
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Census
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of Population and Housing, the population of Longueville stood at 2,099 people, 50.1% females and 49.9% males, with a median age of 42 years. 24.3% of the population was born overseas with
England
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(5.2%),
New Zealand
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(2.1%) and the
United States of America
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(1.0%) the most common. The five strongest religious affiliations in the area were in descending order:
Catholic
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(40.8%),
Anglican
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(20.9%), no religion (17.4%),
Uniting Church
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(3.7%) and
Eastern Orthodox
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Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") ...
(2.6%).
Longueville's population is typically indebted, with a median weekly household income of 3,040, compared with A$1,234 in Australia. The most common types of occupation for employed persons were Professionals (44.3%), Managers (22.2%), and Clerical and Administrative Workers (14.4%). 89.5% of the suburbs occupied private dwellings were family households, 10% were lone person households and 0.5% were group households.
Notable residents
Notable former and current residents of Longueville include:
*
Marjorie Barnard
Marjorie Faith Barnard (16 August 18978 May 1987) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian—and librarian. She went to school and university in Sydney, and then trained as a librarian. She was employed as a librari ...
- novelist
*
Pamela Clauss
Pamela Clauss (17 August 1925 – 5 August 2001) was an Australian pioneering nurse, philanthropist and supporter of historical preservation and the arts.
Born as Pamela Heavey in Longueville, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, to Alison Maud ...
- NYC-based pioneering surgical nurse and philanthropist
*
Louisa Dunkley
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- Union leader and feminist
*
Antonia Kidman
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Early life and family
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- journalist, television host
*
Nicole Kidman
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- actress
*
Rose Lindsay
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Early life
Rose Lindsay (née Soady) was born at Gosford, New South Wales on 5 July 1885 and named Rosa. Her parents were John and Rosa Soady. ...
- artist's model, printmaker, author and wife of
Norman Lindsay
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*
John Newcombe
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- tennis player
*
Patrick O'Farrell
Patrick James O'Farrell (17 September 1933 – 25 December 2003) was an historian known for his histories of Roman Catholicism in Australia, Irish history and Irish Australian history.
Early life and family
O'Farrell was born on 17 Septembe ...
- historian of Catholic Australia
*
Brett Whiteley
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- artist
*
Geoffrey Robertson
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Politics
Longueville is in the safe
Liberal
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federal
electoral division
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of
North Sydney. Former Federal Treasurer
Joe Hockey
Joseph Benedict Hockey (born 2 August 1965) is a former Australian politician and diplomat.
He was the Member of Parliament for North Sydney from 1996 until 2015. He was the Treasurer of Australia in the Abbott Government from 18 September 2 ...
represented the seat from 1996 and was replaced by
Trent Zimmerman
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at the
2015 North Sydney by-election. Zimmerman was the first openly gay man to be elected to the
House of Representatives
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and was re-elected at the
2016 federal election. North Sydney is one of only two original divisions in New South Wales, along with
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People
* Wentworth (surname)
* Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth (1873–1957), Lady Wentworth, notable Arabian horse breeder
* S. Wentworth Horton (1885–1960), New York state senator
* Wentworth Miller (born 1 ...
, which have never been held by the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
For
NSW state elections, Longueville is in the
Electoral district of Lane Cove
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. Since 2003, this seat has been held by Liberal
MP Anthony Roberts
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, a minister in the state government.
References
External links
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{{Sydney Lane Cove suburbs
Suburbs of Sydney
Lane Cove Council