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SEGMENT 4
SUSPENSION BRIDGE to CREMORNE JUNCTION
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TUCKER
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CARLOW
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BARINGA
BAROONA
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CALBINA
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GRAFTON
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VALE
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PALMER ABBOTT
ROSALIND ST
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ERNEST
RODBOROUGH
W o o lworths
AMHERST ST
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MACARTHUR
Crows Nest College
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Nth Sydney
Boys
High
School
FREDBEN
EDWIN
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L A
H A R D E N
TARELLA AV
PL
FIG TREE LA
Private access
North
Sydney
Oval
‘Billy Blue’
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RD
BBQ
BEL
L A NE LANE
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W 68
LANE
Northbridge
Village
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CLIFF
CAMBRIDGE
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A B B O T T ST
ABBOTT LA
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ROSALIND
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GDNS
NORTHBRIDGE
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SYDNEY Oval
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RALEIGH
ANZAC AV
LYTTON
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BELLEVUE
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PINE
MARANA
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C L I F F
FREEWAY
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NORTH
CARTER
Moodie
Lane
Reserve
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LUMSDEN
CA MMERA Y AV
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MOODIE
L A N E
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STREET
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WYAGDON
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McINTOSH
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Merlin
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ROSE
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CLIFF
MERLIN ST
BENT
TUNKS
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B O UL EVA R D E
CAIRO
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BELLS
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ORISSA
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WILSON
WARRINGA RD
WA R R ING A RD
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Clubhouse
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MERLIN
NEUTRAL
BAY
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Wyagdon
Street
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MALACOOTA
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EAST
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Coachwood
Forest
F o u r Figs
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Tarella
Stables
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Northern Sydney
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N o r t h
S h o r e
Baptist Church
& Preschool
‘Fatty’ Dawson
Ruins 1870
WARRINGAH
MILLER
H a re
K r ishn a
Munro
Park
Suspension Bridge
at Northbridge
(January 1892)
Tunks Park
West
IN
Music
Shell
Council
Depot
Falcon
Lodge
STRATHALLEN
Belgian
Beer
Cafe
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P r iva te
a c c e s s
FALCON
Northbridge
Cammeray
Public
School
C a m m e ray
G d n s
24 Hour
Fuel
AMHERST
Tennis
Police
& Comm
Yth Club
Anzac
Park
Uniting
Steps
Skate
Ramp
Chimney
St.Leonards Park
AV
ST
MILLER
Memorial
Clock Tower
Sub
Station
Steps
All Saints
Ang
ST
St.Philip Neri
Cath Sch & Ch
Tunks Park
FWY
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Ang Media
TV & Radio
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LA
WARWICK AV
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CARMEL
WOONONA
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SHORT
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FALCON
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GR E E N S
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LANE LANE
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W 51
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Falcon
Memorial
Playing Fields
Steps
Green
Park
CAMMERAY
GOLF CLUB
ERNEST
Parkview
Tennis
Club
CAMMERAY
Cammeray
Park
Camm eray
Croquet
Club
Cammeray
Tennis
Club
MILITARY
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PINE
LAYCOCK
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Alex Ma n o o g ian
C u ltural Cen tre
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NARANI
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WATSON
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HARDIE
V ER NO N
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EAST
WERINGA AV
DR
PARK AV
BROTHERS
OAKS
W 54
Sports
Field
Play
Play
Scouts
Kendall
Comm Ctr
N o rthb ridg e
P rima ry Sc h o l
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STRATFORD
ST
P riva te
a c c e s s
G a teway Cou rt
YEO
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CR
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STRATFORD
FALL ST
CAMMERAY
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ALAN
EARLE ST
GRASMERE
SUTHERLAND
COMO LA
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Synagogue
GROSVENOR
L A
CHEAL LA
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Neutral
Bay
Pub
Sch
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CO W D R O Y
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LAMBERT
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LA
VIEW
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Subway
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B ig Bear
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Centre
Jetty
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Boat Ramp
3 lane concrete
Bryce
Mortlock
Res
BEN BOYD
LA
SUTHERLAND
LA
GROSVENOR
BEN BOYD
Tennis
NORTHBRIDGE
NORTHBRIDGE
GOLF GOLF CLUB
CLUB
BELGRAVE
LA
YOUNG
YOUNG
Cammeray
Marina
LA
ST
RD
COOPER
Steps
LA
L A
ST
Neu tral
Bay
Villag e
YEO
Salt Pan Ck
P
W
AV RD
DENOS
MATOR A
Primrose Park
Arts & Crafts Ctr
YOUNG
B E N E L O N G LA
GRASMERE
LITTLE
YOUNG
ST
GRASMERE RD
OLD
MARTEN
LA
WATERS
Nor t h
Sports
Field
LA
LA
LA
BENELONG
LA
BENELONG RD
WATERS
RANGERS
Syd n ey
Grasmere
Res
ST
LA
LA
ST
Watersleigh
Pk
RD
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W A T E R S LEIGH
B E NELON G
WATERS
AUBREY
C i r c l e W a l k
ST
LAGUNA
RD
CREMORNE
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BRIGHTMORE
RD
WINNIE
ILLILIWA
MONFORD
PL
Telephone
Exch.
HA M PD E N AV
MURDOCH
MIOWERA RD
War
Memorial
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Early C’hood
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LODGE
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Cremorne
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Brothers
Memorial
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L A N G L E Y
P L
AV
RD
MACPHERSON
SPENCER
TWIN
TOWERS
WALK
STUART
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MILITARY
GLOVER
LA
2088
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AWABA
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Board
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Junction
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SEGMENT 4
SUSPENSION BRIDGE to CREMORNE JUNCTION
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NORTH SYDNEY
CIRCLE WALK
2 6
1
world class walking
it’s exhilarating & healthy
A 45km network of walks in six segments circling North
Sydney via parks, Aboriginal sites, waterfront, bushland
and urban streetscapes encompassing features of both
natural and architectural heritage.
Middle Harbour from Brothers Memorial Reserve
main route return route
distance 5km 3.5km
time (approx)
features
1hr 45mins 1hr
A Suspension Bridge E Warringah Lodge
B Tree F Brothers Memorial Park
C Shipwreck G Willoughby Falls
D Sewage Treatment Plant H
Electricity Substation
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JUNE 2006

SEGMENT 4
SUSPENSION BRIDGE to CREMORNE JUNCTION
Start Main Route
The walk begins at the Suspension Bridge A (see Segment 3 for
background) and meanders along past the interestingly sited and
architecturally varied houses of The Boulevard and Rowlinson Parade.
At Vernon Street drop down via Brothers Avenue for a visit to Tunks
Park. The park’s name recognises William Tunks, St Leonards Mayor
from 1867 until his death in 1883 and a conservationist greatly
concerned about creating public reserves. The Park was a construction
centre for the recently completed Northside Storage Tunnel at Lane
Cove and Scott’s Creek to North Head which is designed to prevent
wet weather sewage overflowing into the Harbour.
Leave Tunks Park, climb Brothers Avenue past the playground and
turn left into Vernon Street at the ‘No Entry’ sign. Water glimpses and
then houses make this a pleasant if steady climb. Continue left into
Cowdroy Avenue and up to Cammeray Road. At this junction, note the
tree B in the road centre and its sad story. Barcroft Boake, the 26
year-old surveyor son of a Milsons Point photographer, was a highly
regarded bush poet whose best-known poem is Out Where the Dead
Men Lie. Out of work in the economic depression of 1892 and further
depressed by a death in the family and the failure of his father’s
business, he left Milsons Point for a walk in the dense bushland of the
Cammeray peninsula, a favourite spot. Eight days later he was found
by workmen. He had hanged himself from the gum tree with his
stockwhip. The tree survived him by almost a century but had to be
replaced in recent years.
Continue downhill to Folly Point, a delightful spot for a break. Older
maps often show this as Cammeray Point with Folly Point being at
Primrose Park. Various unsubstantiated reasons are offered for the
curious name but it could well have been named by Captain Charles
McKinnon, commander of the explosives hulks moored near Seaforth
before the Bantry Bay Depot was constructed. Look left across Long
Bay to Salt Pan Creek where the skeleton of a shipwreck C protrudes
from the water below Northbridge Golf Course. A number of boats
were scuttled in this bay including the Italia (1906) and the Coraki
(1946). To your right is Willoughby Bay. In April 1877 there was only
bushland here and it was here that Melbourne born showman, Henri
L'Estrange outdid the great Blondin by crossing on a 433 metre tight
rope suspended 105 metres above the water. Below, thousands of
paying customers cheered from ferries. Now return slightly back
uphill, turning left beyond the houses to take the bushwalk across and
then downhill over a canal bridge to Primrose Park.
In the nineteenth century, the Primrose Park area was a recognised
beauty spot with a large inlet fed by the once impressive Willoughby
Falls, which now trickle from below Grafton Street. However, Primrose
Park’s current sweet-smelling name notwithstanding, the site was the
Folly Point sewage treatment plant D from 1892 to 1926. Most of
its large flat area was filled with trickling filter beds, which in
operation looked rather like a vegetable farm with rows of sprinklers -
but did not smell like one. There was also a pump house with a tall
chimney, settling and sludge tanks, a small tramway and canals.
Significant elements remain, the original covered settling tanks now
sporting tennis courts. Explore the area now if you wish, or on the
return leg. By 1926 population growth had overwhelmed the system
and it was closed and replaced by the ocean outfall system. In place
of the sewage farm, Primrose Park was dedicated in 1930, and
named after the then Mayor of North Sydney. It is now a thriving
community arts and craft centre.
Cross the Park waterfront to one-way Wonga Road, and walking along
to the left, climb it almost to Lodge Road to where the road widens
and take the small loop left near the 25kph sign to the 1879 mansion
Warringah Lodge E , the first house built in the area. Further uphill
turn left into Ryries Parade, noting the fern-filled waterfall in the first
dip. At Wyong Road, the North Sydney Boundary is met again but look
across the street to the house Shellbank before heading uphill to the
right and into Macpherson Street.
The quiet street of largely Federation houses is swamped by traffic
once the Ourimbah Road lights are reached, so turn right into little
Davidson Parade and follow it around to the Bariston Avenue walkway
leading to Fifth Avenue and wonderful Middle Harbour views from
Brothers Memorial Park F before retracing your steps and
continuing along Fifth Avenue to Montague Road and back to
Macpherson Street.
Two short blocks bring you to Prospect Avenue (and there is one at its
end), turn into it and then left immediately into Langley Avenue.
This is almost the end. At the next intersection, a left turn at Gerard
Street followed by a right at Macpherson brings you within a hundred
metres of Cremorne Junction at Military Road and at the start of
Segment 5.
Start Return Route
To return to the Suspension Bridge, walk back to the Langley/Gerard
intersection, turn left into Gerard Lane which soon hooks left and runs
downhill to Benelong Road. Turn right here, right again at Reynolds
Street and then left into Levick Street. Cross the intersection at
Levick’s end to the bush path which leads down in sometimes steep
steps to Brightmore Reserve with its interesting driver training track.
Primrose Park is across Wonga Road/Young Street. Cross to it and
turn left, walking through the park to the old plant buildings and the
tennis courts atop them. Walk around the left (southern) edge of the
courts to pick up a zigzag track behind them that leads up to Grafton
Street and a glimpse of Willoughby Falls G
.
Take a right along Grafton Street and then left along Cammeray Road.
This passes between Cammeray Park and Golf Course and leafy
Green Park, to Amherst Street. At Bellevue Street, turn right to follow
this quieter alternative to Miller Street to its end past Cammeray Public
School and the wooden cottages opposite. At the end is the interesting
converted 1915 electricity substation H (The North Shore’s first)
designed to stylistically complement the Suspension Bridge which sits
attractively below. Take the left-hand steps down to Pine Street and
then cross to North Avenue where a path leads to the Suspension
Bridge A .
Written and researched by the Walking Volunteers. For further North
Sydney and regional walking materials go the Customer Service
Centre, Stanton Library, or www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au click
‘recreation’ and www.planning.nsw.gov.au/harbour click ‘Walking
Sydney Harbour’. Photographs Graham Spindler.