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Castlecrag, New South Wales

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Castlecrag is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Castlecrag is located 8 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Willoughby.

Castlecrag is a suburb of historical significance that is bounded to the north, east and south by Middle Harbour and to the west by the heavily congested Eastern Valley Way. Castlecrag shares its postcode, 2068, with the surrounding suburbs of Willoughby, Middle Cove and North Willoughby

Castlecrag was originally planned by architect Walter Burley Griffin, who named the suburb after a towering crag of rock overlooking Middle Harbour, known locally as Edinburgh Castle. Griffin came to Castlecrag in 1925 after tiring of the politics surrounding implementation of his designs for Australia's capital city, Canberra.^[4]

Early homes in Castlecrag were built using natural stone to blend into the environment, a common practice in architecture of the Arts and Crafts movement. Later homes were built with bricks using Griffin's patented Knitlock system. Historically Castlecrag was noted in the early 20th Century as an experiment in communal and community planning and living, and for the liberal intellectual, Theosophical, Anthroposophical and Natural history views of its inhabitants.

The suburb was named after a towering crag of rock overlooking Middle Harbour, originally known locally as Edinburgh Castle. This led to naming the streets in the southern older, portion of the suburb after parts of that castle: The barbette, The barbican, The barricade, The bartizan, The bastion, The battlement, The bulwark, The citadel, The high tor, The outpost, The palisade, The parapet, The postern, The rampart, The redoubt, The scarp, The tor walk and Sortie Port. There are also Tower, Casement, and Turrett Reserves, and the main street through the centre is Edinburgh Rd.

In recent times, the residents of the suburb have been noted for their opposition to the Warringah Freeway (Warringah Expressway), which was originally planned to link the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the Northern Beaches, but today terminates just south of Castlecrag in Naremburn.

The Quadrangle Shopping Village in Edingburgh Road features a Coles supermarket and specialty shops. A small group of shops is located opposite.

Castlecrag is a rather affluent harbour side area of Sydney. More than half of its households enjoy incomes that are within the top quartile of Sydney,but there are exceptions.

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlecrag,_New_South_Wales