Hornsby Heights
Hornsby Heights is a suburb of Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
Hornsby Heights is a suburb of Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Hornsby Heights is located 26 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire. The suburb is often referred to as part of the Upper North Shore.
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Worth seeing in and around Hornsby Heights
9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Berowra Valley National Park
The Berowra Valley National Park is a protected national park in northern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The 3,884-hectare national park is situated approximately 20 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district.
3.7 km · National Park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Hornsby Water Clock
The Hornsby Water Clock, titled Man, Time and the Environment, is a piece of kinetic sculpture, a decorative fountain and an occasionally functional clock in the Florence Street pedestrian mall in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. Unveiled in 1993, the sculpture was designed and engineered by Victor Cusack and constructed of bronze, stainless steel and glass by Victor and his foundry floor manager Rex Feakes.
3.5 km · Kinetic sculpture in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Westfield Hornsby
Westfield Hornsby is a large indoor and outdoor shopping centre in the suburb of Hornsby on the Upper North Shore of Sydney.
3.7 km · shopping center in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Galston Gorge
Galston Gorge is a valley located in the Berowra Valley Regional Park in Sydney, Australia. It separates Galston from Hornsby Heights, and is intersected by Galston Road and the heritage-listed Tunks Creek Bridge at the foot of the valley.
2.2 km · valley in the Berowra Valley Regional Park, Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Rofe Park
Rofe Park Hornsby Heights is a bushland reserve in New South Wales, Australia. It has a heritage listing of local significance.
900 m · park to the North of Hornsby, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Foxglove Oval
Foxglove Oval is a park mostly commonly used for sporting events located on Foxglove Road in Mount Colah, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Hornsby District Cricket Club uses the sporting grounds at Foxglove Oval along with Northern Districts Little Athletics Centre and Asquith Boys' Cricket Home Ground.
2.7 km · sports ground in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Mount Wilga House
Mount Wilga House is a heritage-listed former residence and rehabilitation hospital at 2a Manor Road, Hornsby in the Hornsby Shire local government area of New South Wales, Australia. Its design is attributed to Henry Marcus Clark and was built from 1913 to 1914.
2.4 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 08Old Man's Valley Cemetery
Old Man's Valley Cemetery is a heritage-listed former cemetery and now memorial landscape at Old Man's Valley, off Quarry Road, Hornsby in the Hornsby Shire local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by and built by members of the Higgins family between 1879 and 1931 with the assistance of monumental masons.
3 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 09Tunks Creek bridge, Galston
The Tunks Creek Bridge is a heritage-listed timber truss road bridge that carries Galston Road across Tunks Creek, in Galston, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge spans Tunks Creek in the valley of the Galston Gorge.
2 km · bridge in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hornsby Heights
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 31 km · Newcastle (NTL), 119 km
- Stations
- Hornsby railway station, 3.4 km · Asquith railway station, 2 km · Mount Colah railway station, 1.5 km
- Williamtown → Hornsby Heights118 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · A$18–24
- Gold Coast → Hornsby Heights669 km · quickest by air, 6h 6m · A$270–390
- Toowoomba → Hornsby Heights684 km · quickest by air, 5h 54m · A$260–390
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hornsby Heights
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hornsby Heights. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextWisemans Ferry is a nice pleasant picnic spot on the Hawkesbury.
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Next door to Hornsby Heights
Hornsby Heights is 24 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hornsbysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.3 km
- Mount Colahsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.9 km
- Asquithsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.2 km
- North Wahroongalocality in New South Wales, Australia3.4 km