Crows Nest History Walk - Walks

On this walk you will discover the architectural and social history of a working and lower middle class suburb that acquired its essential character from the 1880s to the 1920s.

1. Cammeraygal and North Sydney Girls High Schools
2. 194 Pacific Highway
3. Myrtle Street houses
4. 58 and 58a West Street
5. 41-45 and 72-76 West Street
6. 60-64 West Street
7. 82-84 West Street
8. 61-67 Hayberry Street
9. 51-57 Hayberry Street
10. 14 Hayberry Street
11. 5 Alexander Street
12. 38-58 Burlington Street
13. 16-24 Holtermann Street
14. St Michael’s Greek Orthodox Church
15. Atchison Street (east end)
16. St Thomas’ Rest Park
17. 205 West Street
18. 218 and 220 West Street
19. 196a West Street
20. 52 Ernest Street
21. 29a Willoughby Road
22. Crows Nest Hotel
23. 6 Willoughby Road (cnr Pacific Highway)

Crows Nest History Walk

Crows Nest is named after the farm and cottage established by Edward Wollstonecraft on his 1821 land grant. The estate passed to Wollstonecraft’s partner Alexander Berry after his death. The Lane Cove Road (now the Pacific Highway) roughly marked the eastern boundary of the estate. Berry added to the holding with purchases to the east of the road. Subdivided after his death in 1873, that land forms the heart of present-day Crows Nest.