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Blacktown

Blacktown is a suburb and a commercial hub of Western Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

Blacktown
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The place

Blacktown is a suburb and a commercial hub of Western Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. It is located 34 km (21 mi) west of the Sydney CBD. Blacktown is one of the most multicultural places within Greater Sydney.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Blacktown

6 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
    Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park

    Featherdale Wildlife Park is a zoo located in Doonside, Sydney, Australia. The park is located in Sydney's west, approximately 40 km from Sydney's CBD. The park contains various species native to Australia, and is known to be one of the world's largest collections of Australian fauna.

    2.1 km · wildlife park in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Westpoint Blacktown

    Westpoint Blacktown is a large suburban shopping centre situated in Blacktown, Western Sydney, New South Wales. It was first opened in 1973, and then renovated and expanded in 2006, making it one of the biggest shopping centres in Western Sydney.

    200 m · shopping centre in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dayton House, Seven Hills

    Dayton House is a heritage-listed farm house at 37-39 Roger Place, Seven Hills, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It was built in 1834.

    2.1 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Bartholomew's Anglican Church and Cemetery, Prospect

    St Bartholomew's Anglican Church and Cemetery is a heritage-listed former Anglican church and cemetery at Ponds Road, Prospect, City of Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Henry Robertson and built from 1838 to 1840 by James Atkinson.

    3.9 km · church in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Gabbie Stadium

    Landen Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Sydney, Australia. It is the home ground of Blacktown City FC and Hills United FC. The stadium has a capacity crowd of 7,500 and is owned by Momento Hospitality.

    3.1 km · multi-purpose stadium in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Grantham Poultry Research Station

    The Grantham Poultry Research Station is a heritage-listed former poultry farm and research station and now heritage reserve at 71 Seven Hills Road, Seven Hills, City of Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. It includes two historic residences, Melrose and Drumtochty.

    2.4 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Blacktown

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 32 km · Newcastle (NTL), 139 km
Stations
Blacktown railway station, 300 m · Doonside railway station, 3.6 km · Seven Hills railway station, 2.9 km · Marayong railway station, 2.8 km
  • Williamtown → Blacktown
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · A$21–27
  • Gold Coast → Blacktown
    685 km · quickest by air, 6h 5m · A$270–390
  • Toowoomba → Blacktown
    697 km · quickest by air, 5h 53m · A$260–390
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Blacktown

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Blacktown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    976 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,105 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,266 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,896 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,237 km

If you know how people move in Blacktown – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Blacktown

Blacktown is 30 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Doonsidesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.6 km
  • Prospectsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
  • Arndell Parksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • Kings Langleysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.7 km
  • Kings Parksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.1 km
  • Huntingwoodsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.6 km