Warrawee is a suburb

Suburb

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 on the Upper North Shore of Sydney

Sydney

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 in the state of New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

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. Warrawee is located 21 kilometres north-west of the Sydney Central Business District

Sydney central business district

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 in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council

Ku-ring-gai Council

Ku-ring-gai Council is a Local Government Area in the North Shore region of Sydney. It includes the suburbs of Lindfield, Killara, Gordon, Pymble, St Ives, Turramurra, Warrawee, and parts of Roseville, and Wahroonga. The region is named after the Kuringgai tribe who once inhabited the area...

. Warrawee is predominantly a residential area with few commercial entities.

History

Warrawee is believed to have come from an Aboriginal word meaning rest a while, stop here or to stand.

In 1888, the public servant and patron of exploration Frederick Ecclestone du Faur built his house Pibrac in Pibrac Avenue. The house was designed by John Horbury Hunt

John Horbury Hunt

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, a Canadian architect who settled in Australia and favoured the Arts and Crafts

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 style, as well as the North American Shingle style, which he introduced to Australia. Later alterations were carried out by B.J.Waterhouse. The house is composed predominantly of timber, with extensive use of timber shingles, on a sandstone base. It is considered a good example of Hunt's work and is listed on the Register of the National Estate

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Transport

The Pacific Highway

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 is the main arterial road. Warrawee railway station is on the North Shore Line of the City Rail network. The railway station built in 1900 was last one built on the North Shore Line before it was extended to North Sydney

North Sydney, New South Wales

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. Local residents had to fight the railway commissioners for a train station, that is only one kilometre from Wahroonga.

Schools

Warrawee Public School is situated about 0.5 kilometres to the south of the station, on the Pacific Highway

Pacific Highway (Australia)

The Pacific Highway is a major transport route along part of the east coast of Australia and is part of Australia's national route 1.It is 960 km long and links Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, to Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, along the coast, via Gosford, Newcastle, Taree, Port...

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Knox Grammar School

Knox Grammar School

Knox Grammar School is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Wahroonga, an upper North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 is predominately in the suburb of Warrawee, and sits no more than 200m from Warrawee Station. The School lists its address as Wahroonga as the Administration Office of the School has a Wahroonga Address

Notable residents

• Sir Charles Mackeller and his daughter, poet Dorothea Mackellar
  Dorothea Mackellar
  Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, OBE was an Australian poet and fiction writer.The only daughter of noted physician and parliamentarian Sir Charles Mackellar, she was born in Sydney in 1885...
  
  
• Kandiah Kamalesvaran known as Kamahl, singer

External links

• Rover Crews - for young people aged 17–25 - at nearby Kissing Point & Turramurra