Wahroonga

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Grave of Gertrude Mary Appleton, last member of the Brown family, who played a large part in developing Wahroonga

Wahroonga is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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. North Wahroonga is an adjacent separate suburb of the same postcode.

History

Wahroonga is an Aboriginal word meaning our home, likely originating from the Kuringgai language group.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Early British colonists of New South Wales 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His name is in Browns Road, Browns Field and Browns Waterhole on the Lane Cove River. 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, Gordon.

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.<ref name = "Post Office">Template:Cite web</ref> Much of this development occurred in the 1920s and 1930s.<ref>Book of Sydney Suburbs, Frances Pollon (Angus and Robertson) 1990, page 260</ref>

The Sydney Adventist Hospital was opened in Wahroonga by the Seventh-day Adventist Church on 1 January 1903.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Wahroonga experienced significant growth and development in the post-war years, when its population grew until 1980. The period saw a shift from its semi-rural character to a more residential suburb, fueled by increased subdivision and development.Template:Cn

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Heritage listings

Wahroonga has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Highlands, in Highlands Avenue, is a timber house designed by John Horbury Hunt and built in 1891 for Alfred Hordern. Hunt was a Canadian architect who used the Arts and Crafts style and the Shingle Style popular in North America. Highlands is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register<ref name=nswshr-34/> and was listed on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate.<ref>The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981, p.2/26</ref>

Architect William Hardy Wilson designed and built his own home, Purulia, on Fox Valley Road. Built in 1913, the home is in the Colonial Revival style and became, according to some observers, a prototype for North Shore homes. It is listed on the Register of the National Estate.<ref>The Heritage of Australia, p.2/33</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Wahroonga:Retrieved 6 May 2008</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite NSW HD</ref>

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."<ref>A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture, Apperly (Angus and Robertson) 1994, p.147</ref> Between Craignairn and Malvern in Burns Road, Joseland also built Coolabah, another fine Federation Bungalow example.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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 Napoleon Bonaparte; the house having been built for a grandson of the East India Company Agent who hosted Napoleon at the start of his exile. The house possesses some architectural similarities, and shares its name, with the building on St Helena.<ref>Template:Cite NSW SHR</ref>

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

Fox Valley Road/Comenarra Parkway

There is also a commercial area at the intersection of Fox Valley Road and The Comenarra Parkway which contains the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Globalstar's Australian office, and the offices of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists.

Sports

The Wahroonga Rugby Club, nicknamed the "Tigers" is the local rugby union team and the suburbs leading local sports team. The team plays home games at Cliff Oval in North Wahroonga.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The team is affiliated with the Gordon Rugby Club, as Wahroonga falls within Gordon's catchment area.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Knox Grammar School 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Other nearby cricket clubs include the Kissing Point Cricket Club, in nearby South Turramurra, the local team south of pacific highway.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Normanhurst Warrawee Cricket Club in nearby Normanhurst who shares the 2076 postcode with Wahroonga,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Thornleigh Cricket Club,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the Pennant Hills Cricket Club.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In rugby league, Wahroonga falls within the catchment area of the North Sydney Bears, 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Transport

Wahroonga railway station is on the North Shore railway line, with frequent Sydney Trains services to Central and Hornsby.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Wahroonga is the Sydney end of the M1 Motorway to Newcastle. The Pacific Highway connects Wahroonga by road with the rest of the North Shore and Pennant Hills Road'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 West Pymble via Wahroonga and South Turramurra. Wahroonga is also the northern end of the NorthConnex motorway tunnel.

CDC NSW provides bus services to parts of Wahroonga such as the 576 to Wahroonga Station, 576T to Turramurra Station, 575 to Macquarie University or Hornsby Station via Turramurra, and the 591 to St Ives Community Centre or Hornsby Station.<ref>Template:Cite New South Wales transport timetables</ref><ref>Template:Cite New South Wales transport timetables</ref><ref>Template:Cite New South Wales transport timetables</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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 Blue Gum High Forest, 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 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:

K–12:

Population

Demographics

According to the Template:CensusAU, there were 17,853 residents in Wahroonga. 59.3% of people were born in Australia, the most common other countries of birth were China (excluding Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan) 8.2%, England 4.9%, India 2.9%, South Africa 2.6% and Hong Kong 1.9%. 67.9% of people only spoke English at home, other languages spoken at home included Mandarin (10.2%), Cantonese (3.5%), Korean (1.8%), Hindi (1.4%) and Persian (1.3%). The most common responses for religion in Wahroonga were No Religion 35.5%, Catholic 19.5%, Anglican 16.4% and Uniting Church 3.7%; a further 4.5% of respondents elected not to disclose their religion.<ref name="ABS">Template:Census 2021 AUS</ref>

Notable residents

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