The way points of this bicycle route:
Catch Ferry, Cycle or Drive to Watsons Bay.
Gothic revival. Begun 1805 by William Charles Wentworth.
During giant ocean swells you can stand here and watch surfer boys and girls on the point break.
dismount paths not suitable for cycling
Gothic revival, 1851. Current offices for Sydney Harbour South, National Parks and Wildlife
1834, Award winning restoration of Cooper Estate/Woollahra house.
Gothic revival, 1872. Built by Tooths family and onsold to Reschs family.
Spanish Mission mansion of three levels designed by Neville Hampson, 1926 for Frank Albert, sheet music/harmonica millionaire. Inter-war Spanish Mission style (c.1915-c.1940)
1835, John Verge designed for Gov. Alexander McLeay and family. Greek Revival villa with a centralised Palladian layout with two levels
1831, Tusculum, Potts Point, built for Alexander Brodie Spark.
1830, Regency, for John Busby, onsold to Hamilton Sempill.
Designed by Francis Greenway 1819. Chancel and vestries added by John Verge, 10 years later.
1811, the southern wing of a three wing General Hospital and Dispensary converted to mint in 1854.
Site of Rum Rebellion, 26 January 1808. The only successful armed rebellion in Australia. A conflict between John Macarthur and Governor William Bligh
1854, Designed by Edmund Blacket. Police house adjoining magistrates court.
1844, originally a two story Georgian design by Mortimer Lewis.
Named for Jack Mundy of the Builders Labourers Federation who instigated 'Green Bans' first at Hunters Hill which gave birth to Green Partys world wide.
1836, Georgian Townhouse.
1833, Regency. Former location of Historic Houses Trust
1829. Toxteth Park was a rectangular two-storey block with single-storey wings, a stone-flagged verandah on two sides, with the kitchen and servants' quarters behind.
Named for a visiting aristocrat who was shot but not fatally in Sydney.
Graffiti capitol of Sydney
1832, Arcadian style. John Verge built Tempe House for Alexander Brodie Sparks.
Accessible station Macarthur/East Hills, Illawarra and Airport Lines
Welcome to Bikely, take a step by step tour of this path:
Press Start Tour - then use the navigation buttons below to move along the path.
Tour of fine examples of builder and architect John Verge and contemporaries from the 1830s.
Tagged with: Recreational, Onroad, Intermediate, Scenic
