Ashfield

Worth seeing in and around Ashfield

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Concord Oval

   Concord Oval is a rugby football stadium in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Concord, Australia. The stadium can hold 5000 people, as of November 2022, down from 20,000 when it opened in 1985.

   2.5 km · rugby stadium · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Peter and Paul Cathedral

   St Peter and St Paul Russian Orthodox Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral church at 3–5 Vernon Street, Strathfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The cathedral was built from 1951 to 1954.

   3.5 km · Peter and Paul Cathedral in Sydney · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St John's Ashfield

   St John the Baptist Anglican Church is an active Anglican church located between Alt and Bland Streets, Ashfield, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1840, on land donated by Elizabeth Underwood, the church building is the oldest authenticated surviving building in Ashfield, having been built at the time when subdivision increased the population density sufficiently to turn Ashfield into a town.

   900 m · Anglican church in Ashfield, Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Westfield Burwood

   Westfield Burwood is a large shopping centre in Burwood, Sydney, Australia.

   2.2 km · shopping centre in Burwood · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Hawthorne Canal

   The Hawthorne Canal, a southern tributary of the Parramatta River, is a heritage-listed artificial waterway located in the western reaches of Sydney Harbour, in the Inner West suburbs of Lewisham, Summer Hill, Haberfield and Leichhardt in New South Wales, Australia. Hawthorne Canal and Iron Cove Creek are two significant tributaries that flow into Iron Cove, where it flows into Parramatta River, before connecting with Port Jackson.

   3.2 km · canal in inner-western Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Sydney Bus Museum

   Sydney Bus Museum is a not-for-profit organisation made up of over 200 volunteer members who preserve a rare, and invaluable collection of historic buses. The organisation also operate a transportation museum and education centre for public benefit located in the suburb of Leichhardt, in Sydney, Australia.

   3.5 km · transport museum in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Petersham Park

   Petersham Park is an urban park located in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The park is characterised by well established avenues of brush box and camphor laurel trees.

   2.6 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Petersham Town Hall

   The Petersham Town Hall is a heritage-listed town hall located at 107 Crystal Street in Petersham, a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, Australia. It was built in 1937–38 in the Inter-War Stripped Classical architectural style by architects Rudder & Grout, and replaced the first Petersham Town Hall on the site, which was designed in the Victorian Renaissance Revival style by Thomas Rowe in 1880–1882.

   3.3 km · town hall in Australia · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Strathfield massacre

   The Strathfield massacre was a shooting rampage at Strathfield Plaza in Strathfield, Sydney, Australia, on 17 August 1991. The shooter was Wade Frankum, who killed himself as police arrived at the scene.

   3.2 km · 1991 mass shooting at a shopping mall in Strathfield, Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Australian Computer Museum Society

    The Australian Computer Museum Society Inc, is a society dedicated to the preservation of the history of computing in Australia, including software, hardware, operating systems and literature. ACMS was registered and is a charitable institution which relies on memberships and donations to operate.

    1.5 km · computer museum in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ashfield

Airports

Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 8 km · Newcastle (NTL), 138 km

Stations

Strathfield railway station, 3.2 km · Burwood railway station, 2.1 km · Ashfield railway station, 300 m · Dulwich Hill railway station, 3 km · Hurlstone Park railway station, 2.6 km

• Williamtown → Ashfield

  137 km · quickest by road, 3h · A$21–29
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• Gold Coast → Ashfield

  691 km · quickest by air, 5h 1m · A$220–330
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• Melbourne → Ashfield

  706 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · A$220–330
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