Most of the drainage system in the Charity Creek catchment consists of concrete pipes or boxed culverts.

The area covers approximately 0.48 hectares (1.2 acres), and stretches from Shepherd Street to Linton Lane.

Charity Point, once backed by a creek which has been filled in, was originally named Mur-ray-mah, perhaps meaning 'black bream', heard by the linguist Lieutenant William Dawes as karóoma (garuma).

He received a further grant in 1803, when his nephew William Kent Jnr obtained 570 acres (230 ha) in the district of Eastern Farms.

It was after the 1840s that the former orchards and farms of the Ryde area began to be subdivided and Charity Creek was filled in.