Cammeray History Walk - Walks

Name
Cammeray
Description

This walk will help you explore the history of Cammeray as it developed from a place of market gardens into a modern suburb which retains much of the architectural character of the early-1900s.

Points of interest
  1. 65 Bellevue Street
  2. Site of former creek and Chinese market gardens
  3. 69-71 Palmer Street
  4. Cammeray Public School
  5. 113 Bellevue Street
  6. 123 Bellevue Street
  7. Pine Street Substation
  8. Suspension Bridge
  9. 5 The Boulevarde
  10. 1a/1b Rowlison Parade
  11. Judith Ambler Reserve
  12. Tunks Park, Flat Rock Gully and bushland
  13. Remains of Henry Dawson’s house
  14. 30-32 Marks Street
  15. 12-38 Palmer Street bungalows
  16. Four Figs Park
  17. Abbott Street and tram route
  18. 44-48 Palmer Street
  19. 10 Abbott Street
Location
Brochure
History

The suburb of Cammeray takes its name from the Cammeraygal people whose territory stretched from the harbour perhaps as far north as Turramurra, the country of the Darramurragal. Their social structure was dramatically altered by the early 1800s and it is not clear how many people identified as Cammeraygal by the end of that century.

The name Cammeray was being used by Europeans as early as 1886 when building lots on the ‘Cammeray Estate’ were offered for sale around present-day Middle Cove. In that year Cammeray Park, near here, was named and gazetted. Some sporting clubs adopted the name. In 1890 it was suggested, unsuccessfully, that the new municipality be called Cammeray rather than North Sydney. The name was not generally adopted for the present-day suburb until the 1920s.