DOVER HEIGHTS
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Location:
Dover Heights is an affluent, cliffside, eastern suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, 9 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district. It forms part of the local government area of Waverley Council and Its postcode, 2030, is shared with Vaucluse and Watsons Bay.
Clifftop homes in Dover Heights, Sydney.
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Name origin:
Dover Heights is believed to have been named for its cliffs along the Pacific Ocean which resembled those found at Dover, in Kent, England. Dover Heights is named after Dover Road, which was thought to be named after the English white cliffs of Dover.
The first mention of Dover Heights appeared in municipal records in 1886.
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About:
Dover Heights borders Vaucluse to its north, North Bondi to its south and Rose Bay to its west and has the Pacific Ocean to its east. It is a mainly residential suburb and many of the suburb's properties have views of Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Some properties have both harbour and ocean views.
The Dover Heights Coastal Reserves are part of the Bondi to Watsons Bay Cliff Walk and have stunning ocean views.
The suburb is considered to be the most affluent within the Waverly Local Government Area and amongst the most affluent suburbs in Australia. This is reflected in property prices - like nearby suburbs Vaucluse and Bellevue Hill, median house prices are above A$6.4 million.The ATO's 2014-2015 taxation statistics listed Dover Height's postcode, 2030 as the second richest in Australia with an average taxable income of $185,684.
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History:
Settlement of the area dates from the 1830s, with land used mainly for market gardens. Population was minimal until the 1860s, with more substantial growth from the 1880s. Expansion continued into the early 1900s and then resumed in the post-war years. The population has been relatively stable since the early 1990s, a result of little change in dwelling stock and the average number of persons living in each dwelling.
During the Second World War, Rodney Reserve, at the Dover Heights clifftop, was used by the Royal Australian Air Force for coastal defence radar.
The CSIRO further used the site for pioneering experimentation in radio astronomy related to galactic radio emissions, with a team including John Gatenby Bolton first observing solar emissions in 1945.
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Notable houses:
With both cliff top and city views, Dover Heights has a number of homes of architectural interest which have received awards:
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The Butterfly House:
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The Moebius House:
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The Lighthouse:
(and see below).
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The Cliff Houe:
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Holman House:
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Vintage Pics:
Shore defence radar equipment, Dover Heights c1940
The first prototype of the Light Weight Air Warning radar (LW/AW) being assembled, Dover Heights 1942
RPL field station, Army Reserve, Dover Heights 18 February 1943
Barracluff's Ostrich Farm Auction Sale - Farm in Dover Heights where ostriches were reared to provide feathers for the fashion industry.
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