East Lindfield, New South Wales
East Lindfield is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. East Lindfield is located 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. Lindfield is a separate suburb to the west sharing the postcode of 2070. History. Lindfield means "lime tree field". The Lindfield area was settled in the 1850s. The name derives from the native town of early landowner Mr List, who named his house after Lindfield, Sussex, England. When the railway line  came through the area in the 1890s, the name of the property was used to identify the station and neighbourhood. Suburban development in East Lindfield occurred mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, so most of the houses in East Lindfield are newer and have a different style to those of Lindfield, which mostly pre-date World War II. East Lindfield became a separate suburb from Lindfield when it was gazetted on 5 August 1994. Transport. Lindfield railway station is on the North Shore railway line of the Sydney Trains network. Busways run bus routes 206, 207, 208 and 209 to  East Lindfield. East Lindfield is also home to Lindfield East Public School. At the 2016 census, 25.6% of employed people used public transport as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 58.3% travelled by car. Population. According to the 2016 census, there were 3,711 residents in East Lindfield.