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Castle Hill is the Hills District’s commercial and community heart — a large, well-established suburb 34 km north-west of Sydney’s CBD. Explore the property market, transport, schools, parks and local life in this complete guide.

The Shell terminal at Gore Bay has sat on the eastern edge of the Greenwich peninsula since 1884, when petroleum storage and distribution began on the site of earlier wharves and industrial works. By 1901 Shell had formalised the operation; by the late 1930s more than 500 workers were employed there. Before the oil industry […]

Double Bay carries a reputation for wealth and polish that has stuck for decades, and for good reason. Positioned on the southern edge of Sydney Harbour just four kilometres from the CBD, it is a suburb built around designer retail, harborfront dining, and a residential character that draws some of Sydney’s most affluent residents. The […]

Willoughby is the administrative and community heart of a council bearing its name, a suburb that has carried the title long enough that it is easy to forget the specific origin of the word. The name belongs to Sir James Willoughby Gordon (1773-1851), the English officer who served as Quartermaster-General when the First Fleet was […]

Northbridge is named for what you have to cross to reach it: the bridge that, when it was built between 1889 and 1892, was the fourth-largest suspension span in the world. The Long Gully Bridge, designed by Professor William H Warren of the University of Sydney and engineer JEF Coyle, stretched 152 metres across Middle […]

Naremburn has been called many things over its history. The earliest European settlement in the area knew it as Central Township; the working-class community that grew there in the latter nineteenth century accumulated nicknames that were less flattering: Dog Town, Pension Town, and Struggle Town, the last of which has been documented in historical records. […]

Middle Cove sits quietly between Chatswood and the Middle Harbour waterfront, a suburb of 1,327 residents and approximately one square kilometre that is far better known to property valuers than to most Sydney residents. Gazetted by the GNB on 18 February 1977 with a further update in January 2006, the suburb occupies the inner northern […]

Chatswood West is the quiet residential counterpart to the busy commercial hub that shares most of its name, a suburb of 0.8 square kilometres that sits immediately west of Chatswood‘s Pacific Highway and train corridor while remaining almost entirely free of its commercial activity. Gazetted by the GNB in two stages, with provisional boundaries in […]

Jordan Springs is western Sydney’s most striking example of twenty-first century masterplanned residential development. A community built from scratch on former rural land north of Penrith that has grown into a suburb of young families, contemporary architecture, integrated lakes and a distinctly planned aesthetic that separates it from the more organic suburbs surrounding it. Developed […]

Woolwich sits at the junction of the Parramatta and Lane Cove Rivers, a peninsula suburb that the Wallumedegal people called Moocooboola, meaning “the meeting of the rivers.” It is the largest suburb in the Municipality of Hunter’s Hill by population, with 833 residents occupying a site that has been commercially, militarily, and historically significant in […]

Huntleys Point is the kind of suburb that real estate agents describe as ultra-exclusive and statisticians describe as statistically insignificant. Both are correct. With 142 residents occupying 0.21 square kilometres of Parramatta River foreshore, it is one of the smallest suburbs in metropolitan Sydney by both population and area, and with a median house price […]

Huntleys Cove is one of Sydney’s youngest suburbs by name and one of its most unusual by character: a compact waterfront community of 740 residents that occupies the former grounds of the Gladesville Mental Hospital on a peninsula between Tarban Creek and the Parramatta River. The suburb was known as Tarban until 2002, when the […]