Wahroonga is a suburb on the

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, in the state of

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, 18 kilometres north-west of the

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, in the

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and

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. North Wahroonga is an adjacent separate suburb of the same postcode.

History

Wahroonga is an Aboriginal word meaning ''our home'', likely originating from the

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language group. Early British colonists of

utilized the area for its tall trees. Wahroonga was first colonised by the British in 1822 by Thomas Hyndes, a convict who later became a wealthy landowner. Hyndes's land was later acquired by John Brown, a merchant and timber-getter. After Brown had cleared the land of timber, he planted orchards. Later, Ada, Lucinda and Roland Avenues were named after three of his children. His name is in Browns Road, Browns Field and Browns Waterhole on the

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. The last member of the Brown family was Gertrude Mary Appleton, who died in 2008 at the age of ninety-three. She is buried in the cemetery of St John the Baptist Church,

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. After the North Shore railway line was opened in 1890 it became a popular place for wealthy businessmen to build out-of-town residences with large gardens. Wahroonga Post Office opened on 15 October 1896. Much of this development occurred in the 1920s and 1930s. The

Sydney Adventist Hospital Sydney Adventist Hospital, commonly known as the San, is a large private hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Fox Valley Road in Wahroonga. Established on 1 January 1903, as a not-for-profit organisation, it was originally named the Sydn ...

was opened in Wahroonga by the

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on 1 January 1903.

Housing

Wahroonga is known for its tree-lined, shady streets and well maintained gardens. Notable streets include Water Street, Burns Road, Iloura Avenue and Billyard Avenue.

Heritage listings

Wahroonga has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * 9 Highlands Avenue: ''Highlands'' * 62 Boundary Road: ''Jack House'', Wahroonga * 69–71 Clissold Road: Rose Seidler House * 61–65 Coonanbarra Road: St John's Uniting Church, Wahroonga * 16 Fox Valley Road: ''Purulia'', Wahroonga * 69 Junction Road: Evatt House * North Shore railway: Wahroonga railway station * 1526 Pacific Highway: ''Mahratta'', Wahroonga * 1678 Pacific Highway and Woonona Avenue: Wahroonga Reservoir * 23 Roland Avenue: Simpson-Lee House I * 14 Woonona Avenue: ''The Briars'', Wahroonga ''Highlands'', in Highlands Avenue, is a timber house designed by

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and built in 1891 for Alfred Hordern. Hunt was a Canadian architect who used the Arts and Crafts style and the

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popular in North America. ''Highlands'' is listed on the

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and was listed on the (now defunct)

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. Architect William Hardy Wilson designed and built his own home, ''Purulia'', on Fox Valley Road. Built in 1913, the home is in the

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style and became, according to some observers, a prototype for North Shore homes. It is listed on the Register of the National Estate. Berith Park, in Billyard Avenue, was designed by F. Ernest Stowe for Alfred Smith, who bought the land in 1897. The house was finished circa 1909. ''Westholme'', in Water Street, was designed by Howard Joseland in the Arts and Crafts style for John Bennett, one of the pioneer developers of Wahroonga. Bennett came from England but migrated to Australia with his wife and acquired property at Wahroonga in 1893. Westholme was built in 1894. Another house was added at the other end of the block, but this was demolished in 1991 after changing hands several times. ''The Gatehouse'', in Water Street, was originally part of the John Williams Hospital. The hospital also includes the Federation mansion ''Rippon Grange'', designed by Howard Joseland. ''The Gatehouse'' is listed on the local government heritage register. ''Craignairn'', at the corner of Burns Road and Cleveland Street, was also designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Howard Joseland. The client was Walter Strang. Joseland also built his own home ''Malvern'' two doors away from the Strang home in Burns Road. An example of the Federation Bungalow style, it has been described as "unpretentious and solidly comfortable." Between ''Craignairn'' and ''Malvern'' in Burns Road, Joseland also built ''Coolabah'', another fine Federation Bungalow example. ''The Briars'', in Woonona Avenue, is built on land that was granted to John Hughes in 1842, and later divided into four estates. Jessie Edith Balcombe built ''The Briars'' on one of these estates in 1895. It is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register. 'The Briars' is connected to

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; the house having been built for a grandson of the

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Agent who hosted Napoleon at the start of his exile. The house possesses some architectural similarities, and shares its name, with the building on

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. The Rose Seidler House, in Clissold Road, built by

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between 1948 and 1950, was one of the first examples of modern residential architecture in Australia.

Commercial areas

The main shopping and commercial area is the Wahroonga Village located adjacent to the west side of the railway station. It has a variety of stores including several cafes, restaurants, health stores and boutiques as well as an IGA supermarket. The smaller commercial centres are the Hampden Avenue shopping strip in east Wahroonga, and Fox Valley Shopping Centre on Fox Valley Road in south west Wahroonga. There is also a commercial area at the intersection of

Fox Valley Road Wahroonga is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 18 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Ku-ring-gai Council and Hornsby Shire. No ...

and The Comenarra Parkway which contains the

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's Australian office, and the offices of the

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Sports

The Wahroonga Rugby Club, nicknamed the "Tigers" is the local rugby union team and the suburbs leading junior sports team. The team plays home games at Cliff Oval in North Wahroonga. The team is affiliated with the Gordon Rugby Club, as Wahroonga falls within Gordon's catchment area.

Knox Grammar School Knox Grammar School is an independent Uniting Church day and boarding school for boys, located in Wahroonga, New South Wales, an Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1924 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia as an all- ...

which is located in Wahroonga like other boys private schools considered exclusive in Sydney is a traditional rugby union school. Wahroonga doesn’t have a cricket club playing in the suburb, but is represented by name by the St Ives-Wahroonga cricket club who play in nearby St Ives. Other nearby cricket clubs include the Kissing Point Cricket Club, in nearby South Turramurra, the local team south of pacific highway. the Normanhurst Warrawee Cricket Club in nearby Normanhurst who shares the 2076 postcode with Wahroonga, the Thornleigh Cricket Club, and the Pennant Hills Cricket Club. In rugby league, Wahroonga falls within the catchment area of the

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, officially the North Sydney District Rugby League Football Club, the only team in the Sydney Metropolitan Area without Rugby League representation to have a junior catchment area. The Ku-ring-gai Cubs and Asquith Magpies are the local teams. The Ku-ring-gai Cubs who play at Memorial Park in Turramurra represent the Ku-ring-gai parts of the suburb, whilst the Asquith Magpies are the local team for the Hornsby Shire parts of the suburb, as their licence club is Magpies in nearby Waitara.

Transport

Wahroonga railway station is on the

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, with frequent

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services to Central and Hornsby. Wahroonga is the Sydney end of the

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. The Pacific Highway connects Wahroonga by road with the rest of the North Shore and

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's northern end begins in Wahroonga and intersects the M1 Motorway at Pearce's Corner. The Comenarra Parkway is a minor arterial road that stretches from Thornleigh to

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via Wahroonga and

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. Wahroonga is also the northern end of the

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motorway tunnel.

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provides bus services to parts of Wahroonga such as the 576 to Wahroonga Station, 576T to Turramurra Station, 575 to

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or Hornsby Station via Turramurra, and the 591 to St Ives

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or Hornsby Station.

Parks

Wahroonga Park is located to the north-east of the railway station, and features a significant number of well established introduced trees, a rose garden and a children's playground. The Glade, located near Abbotsleigh, has an oval, two tennis courts, a half basketball court and cricket nets. There is also a small

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, next to the tennis courts. Browns Field is a small sporting oval, formerly a historic logging area. Sir Robert Menzies Park is a small park located within Fox Valley.

Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park is a national park on the northern side of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The park is north of the Sydney central business district and generally comprises the land east of the Highway 1 (New South Wales ...

is located north of Wahroonga. It is the second oldest national park in Australia and is very popular, offering many walking tracks, picnic spots and Aboriginal sites with rock carvings. The park has a large proportion of the known Aboriginal sites in the Sydney area.

Schools

Primary: * Wahroonga Public School * Waitara Public School * Prouille Catholic Primary School * Wahroonga Preparatory School Secondary: *

St Leo's Catholic College St Leo's Catholic College is a Catholic systemic secondary day school for boys and girls, located in the Upper North Shore suburb of Wahroonga in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Situated in the Diocese of Broken Bay, the high school cur ...

* St Edmund's School for students with vision impairment and other special needs K–12: *

Abbotsleigh Abbotsleigh is an independent Anglican Pre-school education, early learning, primary, secondary Day school, day, and Boarding school, boarding school for Single-sex school, girls located in Wahroonga, on the Upper North Shore (Sydney), Upper N ...

School for Girls * Wahroonga Adventist School * St Lucy's School for children with disabilities

Gallery

Image:(1)The Briars in Wahroonga-1.jpg, The Briars File:Craignairn.JPG, Craignairn heritage-listed home, Burns Road Image:RipponGrange.JPG, Rippon Grange, heritage-listed mansion, Water Street File:RoseSeidlerHouseSulmanPrize.jpg, ''Rose Seidler House'', Clissold Road File:(1)Knox Grammar Preparatory School Wahroonga.jpg, Knox Grammar Preparatory School Image:(1)St Lucys School.jpg, St Lucy's School Image:Prouille_School_Wahroonga.jpg, Prouille School Image:St_Edmunds_School_Wahroonga.jpg, St Edmund's School Image:(1)St_Leos_Catholic_College_Wahroonga-1.jpg, St Leo's Catholic College

Population

Demographics

According to the , there were 17,853 residents in Wahroonga. 59.3% of people were born in Australia, the most common other countries of birth were

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(excluding Special Administrative Regions and

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) 8.2%,

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4.9%,

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2.9%,

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2.6% and

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1.9%. 67.9% of people only spoke

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at home, other languages spoken at home included

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(10.2%),

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(3.5%),

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(1.8%),

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(1.4%) and

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(1.3%). The most common responses for religion in Wahroonga were No Religion 35.5%,

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19.5%,

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16.4% and

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3.7%; a further 4.5% of respondents elected not to disclose their religion.

Notable residents

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and former chairman of Arnott's, lived on Burns Road * Kevin Best, artist * Dorothy ('Dot') Butler, bushwalker, mountaineer, and conservationist, lived on Boundary Road *

David Campese David Ian Campese, AM (; born 21 October 1962), also known as Campo, is a former Australian rugby union player (1982–1996), who was capped by the Wallabies 101 times, and played 85 Tests at wing and 16 at fullback. He retired in 1996 and ...

, former

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Mike Carlton Michael James Carlton, (born 31 January 1946) is an Australian former media commentator, radio host, television journalist, author and newspaper columnist. He formerly co-hosted the daily breakfast program on Sydney radio station 2UE with Pete ...

, journalist and radio host *

Grace Cossington Smith Grace Cossington Smith (20 April 189220 December 1984) was an Visual arts of Australia, Australian artist and pioneer of Modernist art, modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-Impressionism to her home country. ...

, Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting, attended Abbotsleigh School *

Clive Evatt Clive Raleigh Evatt (6 June 1900 – 15 September 1984) was an Australian politician, barrister and raconteur. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1939 until 1959. At various times he sat as a member of the Industri ...

, politician and barrister * Nicholas Fitzgerald,

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player for the

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* Martin Flood, Australian quiz champion *

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, actor *

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, frontman of 1980s band

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and former member of the

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for Kingsford Smith from 2004 to 2013 was born and raised here. *

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, actor, was educated by members of the

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during his high school years *

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, journalist, editor and specialist in

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affairs *

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, actor * Howard Joseland, architect, responsible for many of Wahroonga's early homes *

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, judge *

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, Member of the

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representing the neighbouring district of Hornsby. * Sir Lionel Lindsay, artist, lived in Burns Road. * John Lynch, historical linguist of the

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, physicist *

Ollie McGill Oliver James McGill (born 2 November 1981) is an Australian musician who is the keyboard player and backing vocalist for The Cat Empire. He composed "Dumb Ways to Die" for Metro Trains Melbourne. McGill is also a member of several other bands, ...

, keyboardist and backing vocalist for

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, Australian dual-international footballer and cricketer * Jacob Preston, rugby league player * Deborah Schofield, director of the Centre for Economic Impacts of Genomic Medicine at

* Natalie Tobin, association football player for

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* John Toohey, founder of

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and politician, lived at Innisfail, now part of

* William Hardy Wilson, architect, artist and author *

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, justice of the

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and decorated soldier *

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and amateur

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lived in Wahroonga

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Rose Seidler House
* Rover Crews - for young people aged 18–25 - at nearb
Turramurra

Kissing Point
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{{Authority control Wahroonga, New South Wales, Suburbs of Sydney 1822 establishments in Australia Populated places established in 1822 North Shore (Sydney)