Cammeray History Walk - Walks

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.

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

Cammeray History Walk

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.