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West Lindfield

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West Lindfield

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Neighbourhood about one kilometre south west of Killara.

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Bradfield

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A new subdivision created in 1924, Bradfield was home to world Scouts, the Royal Australian Air Force, and thousands of new migrants, and relocated inner-city dwellers, before becoming the site of the CSIRO's National Measurement Lab. Unusually among Sydney suburbs, it was re-integrated into surrounding suburbs and no longer exists.

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West Lindfield

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One of the earliest areas of the North Shore to be settled, West Lindfield was built on Aboriginal land, prized by the Europeans for its tall timbers and fertile river flats.

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Bradfield

A new subdivision created in 1924, Bradfield was home to world Scouts, the Royal Australian Air Force, and thousands of new migrants, and relocated inner-city dwellers, before becoming the site of the CSIRO's National Measurement Lab. Unusually among Sydney suburbs, it was re-integrated into surrounding suburbs and no longer exists.

Rowland, Joan

Joan Rowland is a Sydney local studies librarian. She retired in 2014.

West Lindfield

One of the earliest areas of the North Shore to be settled, West Lindfield was built on Aboriginal land, prized by the Europeans for its tall timbers and fertile river flats.

Lindfield

Aboriginal people were the traditional owners of Lindfield until the timber-getters of the convict camp arrived in 1810. Land grants to farmers and orchardists followed, with more development as the highway north, and later the railway, made transport easier. Suburban development proceeded side by side with dairies and small farms. From the late twentieth century, new medium density development has increased Lindfield's population.