Belrose is a suburb

Suburb

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 of the northern beaches, Sydney

Sydney

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 in the state of New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

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, 19 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district

Sydney central business district

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 in the local government area of Warringah Council

Warringah Council

Warringah is a local council area in the Northern Beaches region of Sydney, Australia. Warringah Council overlaps with a number of suburbs from the Manly Council area to the south and the Pittwater Council area to the north...

, and is part of the Northern Beaches region. Belrose is also considered to be part of the Forest District

Forest District (Sydney)

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, colloquially known as The Forest.

Commercial area

Belrose is primarily a residential area, but contains the Austlink Business Park, two shopping centres including Glenrose and Belrose Village, a theatre, and a library.

Optus

Optus

SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications...

 satellite communications facility is located in Belrose, where Optus manages its five satellites currently in orbit.

Schools

• Wakehurst Public School
  Wakehurst Public School
  Wakehurst Public School is a co-educational primary school located in the Sydney suburb of Belrose, and draws its students predominantly from the surrounding suburbs of Belrose, Davidson and Frenchs Forest...
  
   (established 1966).
• Belrose Public School (established 1952).
• Covenant Christian School
  Covenant Christian School (Sydney)
  Covenant Christian School is an independent co-educational, non-denominational, Christian day school located in Belrose on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school caters for 800 students from Preschool to Year 12 Higher School Certificate...
  
   (established 1978).

Parks, sport and recreation

Garigal National Park

Garigal National Park

Garigal National Park is a national park in New South Wales , 20 km north of central Sydney. The park is somewhat disjointed but covers the following areas:...

 and Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

Ku-ring-gai Chase is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 25 km north of Sydney located largely within the Ku-ring-gai, Hornsby, Warringah and Pittwater municipal areas. Ku-ring-gai Chase is also officially classed as a suburb by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales...

 are on the northern border.

Playing fields in Belrose include the Lionel Watts Oval, a sporting ground for children, and Frenchs Forest Showground, both on the border with Frenchs Forest

Frenchs Forest, New South Wales

-Commercial areas:Forestway shopping centre is at the intersection of Forestway and Warringah Roads. During the 1960s and 1970s, this centre had the name Arndale...

.

BTH Raiders is the local soccer team combining with Terrey Hills which is just north of Belrose.

At Christmas time Borgnis Street is well known for its light display during the holiday season.

Notable residents

• Lucas Neill, Socceroos Captain, played for the local club, Wakehurst in his youth
• Jason King, rugby league
  Rugby league
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   player, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles prop
• Geoff Toovey, former rugby league
  Rugby league
  Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
  
  player, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles legend & head coach,
• Peter Lynch, head of media firm, Media Planet and BTH Raiders maestro
• Paul Hogan, comedian and actor, star of movie "Crocodile Dundee"