Lindfield is a
suburb
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on the
Upper North Shore
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of
Sydney
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in the state of
New South Wales
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,
Australia
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. It is 13 kilometres north-west of the
Sydney Central Business District
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and is in the
local government area
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of
Ku-ring-gai Council
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Major transport routes through the area include th ...
.
East Lindfield 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
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and
federation style
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, in double brick and tile construction. Australian native bushland in
Garigal National Park
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and
Lane Cove National Park borders the suburb.
History
Lindfield was originally the home of the
Kuringgai
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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
Lindfield railway station is a suburban railway station located on the North Shore line, serving the Ku-ring-gai suburb of Lindfield. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 North Shore line and T9 Northern line services.
History
Lindfield stati ...
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
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,
England
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.
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
Lindfield railway station is a suburban railway station located on the North Shore line, serving the Ku-ring-gai suburb of Lindfield. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 North Shore line and T9 Northern line services.
History
Lindfield stati ...
is on the
North Shore railway line
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of the
Sydney Trains
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network and is about 30 minutes by train from the
Sydney central business district
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. 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
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is an
art deco
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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
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 Coun ...
,
Newington College Preparatory School, Holy Family Catholic Primary School, and
Masada College
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(K-6).
Killara High School is also close by, in
Killara.
The
University of Technology Sydney
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, 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 , Lindfield recorded a population of 10,943. Of these:
; Age distribution : Lindfield residents' median age was 40 years, higher than the national median of 38. Children aged under 15 years made up 20.0% of the population (national average is 18.2%) and people aged 65 years and over made up 17.1% of the population (national average is 17.2%).
; Ethnic diversity : 53.9% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China 12.2%, Hong Kong 4.4%, England 3.9%, South Korea 2.6% and Malaysia 1.6%. 59.0% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 15.4%, Cantonese 7.9%, Korean 3.2%, Japanese 1.6% and Hindi 0.7%.
; Income : The median weekly household income was $2,833, higher than the national median of $1,746.
; Housing : Stand-alone houses accounted 52.1% of occupied private dwellings, while 44.3% 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 44.6%, Catholic 16.8% and Anglican 13.2%.
Notable residents
*
Gordon Bray, a sports commentator
*
Iva Davies, 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
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, captain of the Wallabies (Australian rugby union team)
*
Peter Garrett
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, former
Midnight Oil
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singer and later
Australian Labor Party
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(ALP)
politician
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, lived in Lindfield during his teenage years.
*
Billy Hughes
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, 7th
Prime Minister of Australia
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, lived in Nelson Rd, Lindfield, from 1924 until his death in 1952
*
Stirling Mortlock
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, captain of the Wallabies (Australian rugby union team)
*
Greg Rowell, Australian cricketer, born in Lindfield.
*
Clive Shakespeare, a former
Sherbet guitarist, operated the Silverwood recording studio in Hobart Avenue.
*
Karl Stefanovic
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Stefanovic is currently a co-host of the Nine Network's br ...
, co-host of the ''
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'' presenter lives in Lindfield.
See also
*
Seven Little Australians Park named after a book by
Ethel Turner
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Life
She was born Ethel Mary Burwell in Doncaster in England. Her father died when she was two, leaving her mother Sarah ...
.
References
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