Lindfield is a
suburb on the
Upper North Shore
The North Shore is a region within Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, generally referring to suburbs located on the northern side of Sydney Harbour up to Wahroonga, and suburbs between Middle Harbour and the Lane Co ...
of
Sydney in the state of
New South Wales,
Australia. It is 13 kilometres north-west of the
Sydney Central Business District and is in the
local government area of
Ku-ring-gai Council.
East Lindfield
East Lindfield is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. East Lindfield is located 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Counc ...
is a separate suburb to the east, sharing the postcode of 2070.
This suburb of 5.17 square kilometres contains residential housing of
California bungalow and
federation style, in double brick and tile construction. Australian native bushland in
Garigal National Park
The Garigal National Park is a protected national park that is located within the North Shore and Forest District regions of Sydney, New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The national park is situated approximately north of the Sydney ce ...
and
Lane Cove National Park
The Lane Cove National Park is a protected national park that is located within metropolitan Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. The national park is situated about north-west of the Sydney central business district and features various ...
borders the suburb.
History
Lindfield was originally the home of the
Kuringgai indigenous people.
Europeans first became active in the area in around 1810, when the colonial government set up a timber gathering camp staffed by convicts.
By the 1840s, fruit growing and farming became the suburb's primary industries.
Settlement began to increase in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The
Lindfield railway station opened in 1890, and Lindfield Post Office opened on 5 January 1895.
Land values increased in the area around the railway and more professionals moved into the area.
The name "Lindfield" means a clearing in the lime forest, and derives from the name given by an early landowner, Francis List, to a cottage he built in the area in 1884.
List likely named his cottage after
Lindfield,
Sussex,
England.
When a railway line came through the area in 1890s, the name of the property was used to identify the station and neighbourhood.
[''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia , page 154]
During the years after World War II the suburb experienced significant growth.
Heritage listings
Lindfield has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
* 33 Tryon Road:
Tryon Road Uniting Church
Infrastructure and development
Lindfield railway station is on the
North Shore & Western Line
The North Shore & Western Line (numbered T1, coloured orange) is a commuter rail line operated by Sydney Trains in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It serves the North Shore, parts of the Inner West and Western Suburbs.
It was previo ...
of the
Sydney Trains network and is about 30 minutes by train from the
Sydney central business district. The
Pacific Highway is the main arterial road through Lindfield. Lindfield has a small commercial area on both sides of Lindfield railway station on the Pacific Highway and Lindfield Avenue. The former
Commonwealth Bank
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), or CommBank, is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom. It provides a variety of financial services including retail, busines ...
is an
art deco
Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
style building on the Pacific Highway.
Lindfield Library is a branch of the Ku-ring-gai Municipal Library Network. There are two community halls: East Lindfield Community Hall at Crana Avenue and West Lindfield Community Hall at Moore Avenue. There are two tennis courts at Lindfield Community Centre (behind the library) and a further two courts at Lindfield Park in Tryon Road.
Places of worship
Lindfield has five places of worship: St Albans Anglican Church, Holy Family Catholic Church, Lindfield Uniting Church (with church buildings on Tryon Road and the Pacific Highway) and the
North Shore Synagogue.
Schools
Schools in the suburb comprise
Lindfield Public School Lindfield East Public School
Lindfield East Public School, (abbreviation LEPS) is a school located in East Lindfield Sydney, Australia. It is a co-educational Public school (government funded), public school operated by the New South Wales Department of Education with studen ...
,
Newington College Preparatory School, Holy Family Catholic Primary School, and
Masada College (K-6).
Killara High School
Killara High School is a co-educational, coeducational public secondary school, located on Koola Avenue in East Killara, Sydney. Established in 1968, Killara High School is one of the highest performing comprehensive non-selective public schools i ...
is also close by, in
Killara
Killara is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia north-west of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. East Killara is a separate suburb and ...
.
The
University of Technology Sydney, Kuring-gai Campus, (formerly The William Balmain Teachers College and then The Kuring-gai College Of Advanced Education,) operated at a campus on Eton Road from 1971 to 2015. It offered courses in business, nursing and midwifery, education and travel. The site was then closed in 2015 while an extensive interior fitout was undertaken. It was reopened ahead of the 2019 school year as The Lindfield Learning Village, an unconventional K-12 public school.
Commercial
Commercial developments in Lindfield are situated along the Pacific Highway, Lindfield Shopping Village and nearby Tryon Road.
Lindfield Arcade was demolished in 2016 in order to facilitate the construction of residential apartments.
Residential
Residents
Demographics
At the
2016 census, Lindfield recorded a population of 9,791. Of these:
; Age distribution : Lindfield residents' median age was 39 years, higher than the national median of 38. Children aged under 15 years made up 20.3% of the population (national average is 18.7%) and people aged 65 years and over made up 16.0% of the population (national average is 15.8%).
; Ethnic diversity : 56.6% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China 7.8%, England 4.5%, Hong Kong 3.9%, South Korea 2.5% and India 1.7%. 64.2% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 9.7%, Cantonese 7.9%, Korean 2.9% and Japanese 1.3%.
; Income : The median weekly household income was $2,513, higher than the national median of $1,438.
; Housing : Stand-alone houses accounted 59.7% of occupied private dwellings, while 37.4% were flats, units or apartments. The average household size was 2.8 people.
; Religion : The most common responses for religion in Lindfield were No Religion 32.8%, Catholic 20.6% and Anglican 16.8%.
Notable residents
*
Gordon Bray
Gordon Timothy Bray AM (born 23 June 1949) is an Australian sports commentator and sports journalist. He is colloquially known as "The Voice of Rugby".
Early life
Brought up in the Sydney suburb of Canada Bay and educated at Homebush Boys High ...
, a sports commentator
*
Iva Davies
Ivor Arthur Davies, AM (born 22 May 1955), known professionally as Iva Davies, is an Australian singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
Davies' music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in t ...
, a singer from the band
Flowers/Icehouse, lived in Lindfield during the 1970s to early-1980s whilst he was part of the
ABC Sinfonia (orchestra) and started the band there.
The song "
Icehouse" was written about the house Iva lived in at 18 Tryon Road and also a dishevelled old house across the street, which Davies later learned was a half-way house for psychiatric and drug rehab patients.
*
Nick Farr-Jones
Nicholas Campbell Farr-Jones AM (born 18 April 1962) is a former Australian rugby union footballer. His position was scrum-half. He is probably best remembered for winning the 1991 Rugby World Cup with his team against England. He now works a ...
, captain of the Wallabies (Australian rugby union team)
*
Peter Garrett, former
Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboard) and Martin Rotsey (guitar). The group was formed in Sydney in 1972 by H ...
singer and later
Australian Labor Party
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(ALP)
politician, lived in Lindfield during his teenage years.
*
Billy Hughes
William Morris Hughes (25 September 1862 – 28 October 1952) was an Australian politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Australia, in office from 1915 to 1923. He is best known for leading the country Military history of Austra ...
, former prime minister, lived in Nelson Rd, Lindfield, from 1924 until his death in 1952
*
Stirling Mortlock
Stirling Austin Mortlock AM (born 20 May, 1977) is a former Australian professional rugby union player. He has scored more than 1,000 points in Super Rugby, and nearly 500 test points for the Wallabies. Mortlock is a former Wallaby, Melbourne R ...
, captain of the Wallabies (Australian rugby union team)
*
Clive Shakespeare
Clive Richard Shakespeare (3 June 194715 February 2012) was an English-born Australian pop guitarist, songwriter and producer. He was a co-founder of pop rock group Sherbet, which had commercial success in the 1970s including their number-one ...
, a former
Sherbet guitarist, operated the Silverwood recording studio in Hobart Avenue.
*
Karl Stefanovic
Karl Stefanovic ( sr-Cyrl, Карл Стефановић; born 12 August 1974), also spelt Karl Stefanović, is an Australian television presenter and journalist for the Nine Network.
Stefanovic is currently a co-host of the Nine Network's ...
, co-host of the ''
Today'' show and ''
60 Minutes
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'' presenter lives in Lindfield.
See also
*
Seven Little Australians
''Seven Little Australians'' is a classic Australian children's literature novel by Ethel Turner, published in 1894. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father ...
Park named after a book by
Ethel Turner.
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