Lindfield

Whilst Lindfield and Lindfield East are separate suburbs, the similarity between them leads us to describe them together. The significant differences are limited to compass points and can relate to price points in some parts.

Lindfield was home to the Kuringgai people for thousands of years until Lindfield became a convict timber camp in 1810. Once they had cleared all the timber, it became farmland and used for orchards and fruit growing. The name Lindfield didn’t come until the late 1800s when a cottage was built and named after Lindfield, Sussex England (a nice similarity to Ralph & Ralph) before the railway station took the same name and it stuck for the suburb as it began to develop.

Street view of a row of shops with red and white brick exteriors, including a restaurant named Viva Madrid, an optometrist, and other businesses in a busy area. Overcast sky with clouds above.
Entrance gate to a sports field with a white picket fence, large trees, and a building labeled "Lindfield Rugby Club" in the background. Cloudy sky overhead.

Inside Lindfield

  • Lindfield is full of tree-lined streets and charming old homes. It also has many apartments and city-like living. It is a great place to relax but also an easy place to commute from. It has the busyness with shops, banks, restaurants and more as well as the quietness of nearby national parks and bushland.

  • Lindfield has everything you could need. It is home to plenty of shops, cafes, restaurants and even banks and small businesses. The recently built Village Green hosts a good Harris Farm and IGA.

    Lindfield East has a small community shopping strip with easy parking, a good deli and café, a pharmacy, greengrocer and more.

  • The train station makes Lindfield a great place to live with easy commute to the city or up further north. There are also several buses:

    • 556 is a loop service between Lindfield and East Killara that stops at shops and local schools.

    • 565 connects Macquarie Park to Chatswood passing through Lindfield.

    • 558 connects Lindfield to Chatswood.

    • 207 connects East Lindfield to the city

  • Lindfield offers catchments to some of the best public schools in Sydney.

    For Primary School (K-6):

    • Lindfield Public School

    • Lindfield East Public School

    • Lindfield Learning Village

    For High School (7-12):

    • Killara High School

    • Lindfield Learning Village

    Lindfield Learning Village is an innovative school that aims to allow students to develop in a range of areas at different paces. It provides individualised education that is backed by strong theory.

    Killara High School has long been popular with Jewish families as it offers Hebrew as an HSC subject.

  • Lindfield offers some unique hidden gems:

    • Lindfield Rocks is a place for rock climbing in the natural landscape.

    • Historic homes throughout Lindfield and Lindfield East can be fun just to walk by and look at.

  • Lindfield is heavily family oriented population with singles and couple making up a small percentage of households.

  • Lindfield has large areas that are bushfire risk and have been affected in the past. There are also flood risk zones. It is a very natural area and both should be expected in suburbs like Lindfield but should not be a detractor from Lindfield at all. Instead, they should just be things you are aware of so you can plan for them. It is a beautiful and unique natural landscape that you can live within and the council has active sustainability initiatives to protect it.

  • You don’t find many suburbs like Lindfield anymore. It really has everything you could want in a beautiful environment. Whether you are into old world heritage or modern living. Whether you are into houses, townhouses or apartments. Whether you like to be off the beaten track or in a busier area. Lindfield offers it all. Lindfield even manages to offer all that without it seeming to contradict.