The estate neighbourhoods of York Region
Guides to 22 estate neighbourhoods across Richmond Hill, Thornhill, Markham and Vaughan: the streets, the lots, the houses and the life, written by Marco Lamees & Associates.
Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill holds the largest concentration of estate neighbourhoods in York Region: South Richvale and Bayview Hill on large lots south of Major Mackenzie, Mill Pond and the Heritage Estates around the old village, and the ravine and lakeside streets of Oak Ridges and Jefferson to the north.
South Richvale
Wide lots and custom houses between Yonge and Bathurst, south of Carrville Road
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Mill Pond & Heritage Estates
The old village pond, its heritage streets and a Georgian Revival enclave to the west
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Bayview Hill
A planned enclave of large brick houses on a rise above Bayview Avenue
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Oak Ridges & Lake Wilcox
Kettle lakes, moraine forest and lakefront custom houses at the north end of the city
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Jefferson
New-build family streets on the moraine slope, with forest and golf at the edges
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Westbrook
Ravine lots and newer detached houses between Bathurst and Yonge, north of Elgin Mills
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Observatory
Established streets and new houses around the David Dunlap Observatory lands
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Rouge Woods
Family streets along the Rouge headwaters, north of Bayview Hill
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Doncrest
Tree-lined 1980s streets above German Mills Creek, minutes from the 404 and 407
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Thornhill straddles Yonge Street at the southern edge of York Region, split between Markham and Vaughan. Its estate pockets, Royal Orchard, Yonge Uplands and Bayview Glen among them, sit on some of the oldest and most treed streets north of Toronto.
Royal Orchard
Seventies estates between Yonge and Bayview, with the Don valley at the back door
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Yonge Uplands & Old Thornhill
The original village on Yonge Street and the estate avenues that climb west from it
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Pomona Valley
The streets around Pomona Mills Park where the East Don comes through Thornhill
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Bayview Glen
Curving streets and estate lots around the Bayview golf course on the Toronto border
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Thornhill Woods
A planned community of the 2000s between Bathurst and Dufferin on the Vaughan side
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Markham’s significant homes gather around Unionville’s heritage village, the golf course streets of Angus Glen, and the large-lot enclave of Cachet, each with its own idea of what a house should be.
Unionville
A nineteenth-century Main Street, a mill pond and the streets that grew around them
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Cachet
Markham's estate enclave of the 1990s, with the Rouge and Berczy Creek running through it
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Angus Glen
A golf course community built around a former horse farm on Major Mackenzie
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Markham Village
The old town on Main Street Markham, with the Rouge valley at its back
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Vaughan’s estate addresses follow the Humber valley: the village of Kleinburg, the wooded lots of Islington Woods, and the newer custom streets of Weston Downs and Upper Thornhill Estates.
Kleinburg
A heritage village on a ridge between two branches of the Humber, ringed by estate lots
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Islington Woods
Woodbridge's valley-edge estate streets along Islington Avenue above the Humber
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Weston Downs
East Woodbridge's established executive streets west of Weston Road
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Upper Thornhill Estates
Patterson's newest large-house community, west of Bathurst and north of Major Mackenzie
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