| Type: | suburb |
| East Lindfield | |
| City: | Sydney |
| State: | nsw |
| Local Map: | yes |
| Zoom: | 13 |
| Lga: | Ku-ring-gai Council |
| Postcode: | 2070 |
| Pop: | 3710 |
| Elevation: | 103 |
| Stategov: | Davidson |
| Fedgov: | Bradfield |
| Near-Nw: | Killara |
| Near-N: | East Killara |
| Near-W: | Lindfield |
| Near-E: | Forestville |
| Near-Sw: | Roseville |
| Near-S: | Roseville Chase |
| Near-Se: | Killarney Heights |
| Dist1: | 13 |
| Dir1: | NW |
| Location1: | Sydney CBD |
East Lindfield is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. East Lindfield is located 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. Lindfield is a separate suburb to the west sharing the postcode of 2070.
Lindfield means "lime tree field". The Lindfield area was settled in the 1850s. The name derives from the native town of early landowner Mr List, who named his house after Lindfield, Sussex, England. When the railway line came through the area in the 1890s, the name of the property was used to identify the station and neighbourhood.
Suburban development in East Lindfield occurred mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, so most of the houses in East Lindfield are newer and have a different style to those of Lindfield, which mostly pre-date World War II.
East Lindfield became a separate suburb from Lindfield when it was gazetted on 5 August 1994.[1]
Meadow Lea
Meadow Lea, is the grand five-bedroom East Lindfield art deco estate identified by its distinctive Meadow Lea paint colour. It was built in the early 1940's for the prominent margarine industrialist James Armstrong. The home boasts a grand foyer, dining room and a sprung floor ballroom, with a thermostatically controlled two-zone cellar that can hold 2,500 bottles.[2]
Lindfield railway station is the nearest station on the North Shore railway line of the Sydney Trains network. Busways run bus routes 206, 207, 208 and 209 to East Lindfield.
At the, 2.6% of employed people used public transport as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 26.7% travelled by car.
The suburb has a primary school, Lindfield East Public School established in 1929.
The suburb also has a community preschool, Lindfield East Community Preschool, established in around 1975. [3]
According to the, there were 3,710 residents in East Lindfield, with 91.3% occupied private dwellings, mostly (87.9%) living in a separate house. The median age was 43 and average number of children was 2 (1.1 for all households).