Clareville is a suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Clareville is 36 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. Clareville is part of the Northern Beaches region.[2]
| Clareville Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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Clareville-2.jpg) Clareville, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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| Population | 822 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2107 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 13 m (43 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 36 km (22 mi) north-east of Sydney CBD | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Northern Beaches Council | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Pittwater | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Mackellar | ||||||||||||||
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Clareville is bordered by Avalon Beach, Bilgola Plateau and Newport. Clareville Beach and Taylors Point are localities within the suburb.
Clareville
editIn the 1830s, two large land grants were made to a Catholic priest, Father John Joseph Therry (1790–1864), who had arrived in Sydney in May 1820.[3] The grant included what is now known as Clareville. It is thought that the suburb has historically been accessed by the water. In the early 1920s, the area was subdivided and Sydney residents purchased holiday homes. In the 1950s, with the increase in motor car use, the area became a residential zone.[4] Houses in the area are now expensive, with many having water frontages and views.
Heritage listings
editClareville has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
Demographics
editAccording to the 2021 census of Population, there were 822 people in Clareville. 69.6% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 9.4%, United States of America 1.8%, South Africa 1.7%, New Zealand 1.5% and Sweden 1.1%. 87.8% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included German 1.0%, Swedish 0.6%, Spanish 0.5%, Dutch 0.4% and Afrikaans 0.4%. The most common responses for religion in Clareville were No Religion, so described 47.3%, Anglican 17.6%, Catholic 16.5%, Not stated 7.7% and Christian, not further defined 2.2%.[1]
Residents
edit- Norah Telford Burnard (1902-1979), school dental supervisor and journal editor
- Bob Norton OBE (1922–1992), a former president of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons lived in Clareville.[6]
- Morris West (1916–1999), author.
- Iain Murray (1958-), America's Cup sailor and yacht designer.
References
edit- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Clareville (State Suburb)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Gregory's Sydney Street Directory (2002), Maps 139,169
- ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography
- ^ Clareville History, Pittwater Council Website
- ^ "Hy Brasil". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H00079. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC BY 4.0 licence.
- ^ Who's Who in Australia (Herald and Weekly Times Melb, 1988) pp 681: Norton, Robert York (1922 – )
External links
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