Caringbah, New South Wales

Caringbah stretches from Woolooware Bay on the Georges River to Yowie Bay and Burraneer Bay on the Port Hacking estuary. A number of Caringbah localities have been declared as separate suburbs but still share the postcode 2229. These suburbs are Taren Point to the north on the Georges River and Port Hacking, Lilli Pilli, Dolans Bay to the south on the Port Hacking River.

[edit] Commercial Area

Caringbah features a mixture of residential, commercial and industrial areas. The commercial district is made up mostly of small businesses specialising in professional services.

The Kingsway, Caringbah

The main shopping centre is located close to Caringbah railway station and is centred around the intersections of President Avenue, the Kingsway and Port Hacking Road South. A small group of shops, known as Caringbah South, is located further south on Port Hacking Road South. Another small group of shops is located even further south, close to the border of Lilli Pilli. Caringbah however is recently being over-developed by powering business companies and a council with no respect for its towns residents. The percentage of townhouses has grown by 23% in the last 18 months, and the poulation of Caringbah has risen 16%. If these statistics are to continue, the peaceful town once known as Caringbah will become nothing more than an over-populated super-urbanised city.

A large commercial and industrial area is also centred on Taren Point Road and surrounding areas. Commercial developments here include many home furnishing retailers and home renovation showrooms.

Burraneer Bay Marina

Sutherland Hospital

Caringbah memorial

[edit] Transport

Caringbah is a central suburb of the Sutherland Shire, considering some of the main roads intersect here. President Avenue and the Kingsway both run from Sutherland via Miranda in the west, to the popular beachside suburb of Cronulla in the east. Taren Point Road leads north to the Captain Cook Bridge, St George area and further north to the Sydney CBD.

Caringbah railway station is on the Cronulla branch of the Illawarra line on the City Rail network. Caringbah Bus Service runs buses to Lilli Pilli and Westfield Miranda and BusLink runs services to Cronulla and Westfield Miranda. Sydney Buses provide bus services to Rockdale and Westfield Miranda, but there are only limited Sydney Buses services that travel into the commercial area near the railway station.

Burraneer Bay Marina is located on the western shore of Burraneer Bay.

[edit] Hospitals

Caringbah is home to the public district Sutherland Hospital and Kareena Private Hospital.

[edit] Schools

There are three secondary schools and a number of primary schools in Caringbah. The secondary schools are Caringbah Selective High School, Endeavour Sports High School and De La Salle College. De La Salle College is a school for boys from year 7 to year 10. The primary schools include Caringbah Public School, Caringbah North Public School, Laguna Street Public School and Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School.FAtima Rocks!!!It has just undergone some revenations and looks asome! De La has also has some revenations!!

[edit] History

Caringbah is an Aboriginal word for a pademelon wallaby. The suburb was originally called Highfield, but it is unclear whether this was a position description or whether it was named after an early resident. Caringbah was used from 1911, after the steam trams began operating between Cronulla and Sutherland.

Thomas Holt (1811-88) owned most of the land that stretched from Sutherland to Cronulla in the 1860s. Most of the area around Miranda and Caringbah was used for market gardening from the 1880s. Caringbah was still used for orchards and farming until after World War II. The railway line to Cronulla opened in 1939.