Cottage Point, New South Wales

Cottage Point is a small suburb in the north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The village is located about 38 km north of the city of Sydney in the Warringah Council in the North Shore area of Sydney. The nearest town is Mount Kuring -Gai.

Location

Cottage Point is located on a promontory on the Cowan Creek and Coal and Candle Creek meet, part of the Hawkesbury River Broken Bay system. It is the only inhabited place in the Ku- ring-gai Chase National Park and end point of the Cottage Point Road. In the village there is a restaurant with two apartments to stay, the guests like to fly in a seaplane and boat rentals and berths for ships.

History

Cottage Point had numerous names that date back to the early European colonization: Cowan Creek Terrey, Anderson, Dixon, Jumpsuit, Windy bank, McCreadie and Notting. In the period 1880-1970 the name Notting was common, dating back to Henry Eustace Notting, who was the first settler in the area.

1885 received 140 acres of land Joshua Terrey by the government and placed there a tent and spent the holidays with his family. The construction of a permanent building was the Terreys in 1906 allowed during the period when the area was part of the Ku-ring -gai Chase National Park. The first house was called Riverview. More houses were built in the following years and the material was transported there by boat. 1934 a temporary access roads built to Cottage Point and in 1940 it gave permission to establish the road with bulldozers, because during the Second World War, the ships out of fear of an invasion were confiscated by the Army. 1970 sold the Nottings their grounds at Cottage Point to a yacht club.