Sheldon Forest
Sheldon Forest is a pocket of urban bushland located 17 kilometres north-west of Sydney, Australia in a narrow valley between Turramurra and Pymble. Sheldon Forest is of high conservation status because it contains some of the last remnants of the endangered Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest and Blue Gum High Forest in the Sydney basin.Photo: Poyt448, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Turramurra railway station and Pymble railway station.
Turramurra railway station
Railway station
Photo: Pennoze, Public domain.
Turramurra railway station is a suburban railway station located on the North Shore line, serving the Sydney suburb of Turramurra. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 North Shore Line services.
Pymble railway station
Railway station
Photo: Abesty, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pymble railway station is a suburban railway station located on the North Shore line, serving the Sydney suburb of Pymble. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 North Shore Line services.
Warrawee railway station
Railway station
Photo: Abesty, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Warrawee Railway Station is a suburban, heavy rail train station situated in the suburb of Warrawee on the North Shore of Sydney. The station is made up of two platforms in an island arrangement, servicing 8 car trains.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upper North Shore and Macquarie Park.
Upper North Shore
Photo: John Dalton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Upper North Shore is a leafy and affluent residential area to the north of the heart of Sydney. It is east of the Lane Cove River, north of Chatswood and south of the uppermost border of Hornsby Shire council area.
Macquarie Park
Macquarie Park-Ryde is the metropolitan area on the northern bank of the Parramatta River and is bordered by Lane Cove National Park to the east and north and Parramatta and the Hills District to the west.
Hills District
Hills and Hawkesbury is the largely residential area to the north west of the CBD and north of Macquarie Park. It includes the Hills District area around Castle Hill and Baulkham Hills and the semi-rural areas around Dural and Galston.
Sheldon Forest
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: New South Wales
- Categories: forest and recreation area
- Location: Ku-ring-gai Council, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.7409° or 33° 44′ 27″ southLongitude
151.1303° or 151° 7′ 49″ eastOpen location code
4RRH745J+J4OpenStreetMap ID
way 960959993OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveWikidata ID
Q7493491
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Satellite Map
Discover Sheldon Forest from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Hebrew—“Sheldon Forest” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيلدون فورست”
- Hebrew: “חורשת שלדון”
- Hebrew: “יער שלדון”
- Hebrew: “שלדון פורסט, ניו סאות‘ ויילס”
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