Waverton History Walk - Walks

This walk will help you explore the history of the Estate which extended into present-day North Sydney and the suburb of Waverton which grew out of the Estate land releases from the 1890s.

1. 6 Napier Street
2. 120 Pacific Highway
3. 168-170 Pacific Highway
4. 172 Pacific Highway
5. Pacific Highway, Crows Nest House Gates
6. 16 McHatton Street
7. 5 McHatton Street
8. 1 McHatton Street
9. 1a and 1b Hazelbank Road
10. Brennan Park
11. King Street sandstone
12. View of Oyster Cove, the old gasworks site and Wondakiah
13. Cnr Whatmore and Tunks Street
14. Lloyd Rees and Ross Street
15. 87-93 Bay Road
16. Bay Road / Waverton Station
17. Wakelin Reserve
18. 21 Carr street
19. 29 Bay Road
20. 48 or 50 Bay Road
21. 26 Toongarah Road
22. 5 Toongarah Road
23. Edward, Berry and Oak Streets

Waverton History Walk

The suburb of Waverton takes its name from a large bungalow, Waverton House, which stood from the 1850s to the 1970s on present-day Waverton Avenue. The suburb was so-named by 1930. Before that, the area was generally called Bay Road.

Most of the suburb was originally part of the vast Wollstonecraft / Berry Estate granted to Edward Wollstonecraft in 1821 and acquired by his brother-in-law and partner Alexander Berry after his death in 1831. Berry built Crows Nest House in 1845 and lived there until his death in 1873.