Burwood
Burwood is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
Burwood is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of Municipality of Burwood.
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Worth seeing in and around Burwood
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.
- 01Bicentennial Park, Homebush Bay
Bicentennial Park is a 40-hectare suburban parkland located 16 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the suburb of Sydney Olympic Park, in the local government area of City of Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. Bicentennial Park is situated on the shores of Homebush Bay and is a part of the Sydney Olympic Park.
4 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Peter 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.
1.5 km · Peter and Paul Cathedral in Sydney · Wikipedia - 03Concord 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.
1.1 km · rugby stadium · Wikipedia - 04St 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.
2.2 km · Anglican church in Ashfield, Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Strathfield 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.
1.2 km · 1991 mass shooting at a shopping mall in Strathfield, Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Westfield Burwood
Westfield Burwood is a large shopping centre in Burwood, Sydney, Australia.
300 m · shopping centre in Burwood · Wikipedia - 07Derrylyn
Derrylyn is a heritage-listed house at 16 Deakin Avenue, Haberfield, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
3.3 km · historic site in Sydney New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 08Lewisham Sewage Aqueduct
Lewisham Sewage Aqueduct is a heritage-listed sewage aqueduct in Gadigal Reserve, adjacent to 5 Grosvenor Crescent, Summer Hill, Inner West Council, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Sewerage Construction Branch and Department of Public Works and built in 1900.
4 km · heritage-listed sewerage aqueduct in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 09St. David's Road Depot
St. David's Road Depot is a heritage-listed former electricity substation at 11 St Davids Road, Haberfield, Inner West Council, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
3.1 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 10The Bunyas
The Bunyas is a heritage-listed residence and former church missionary and scout headquarters at 5 Rogers Avenue, Haberfield, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It was designed by John Spencer-Stansfield and built from 1900 to 1907.
2.9 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Burwood
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 10 km · Newcastle (NTL), 138 km
- Stations
- Strathfield railway station, 1.1 km · Homebush railway station, 2 km · Burwood railway station, 100 m · Flemington railway station, 3.5 km · Summer Hill railway station, 3.5 km
- Williamtown → Burwood137 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · A$21–28
- Gold Coast → Burwood691 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · A$220–340
- Melbourne → Burwood14 km · quickest by road, 35 min · A$2–2.5
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Burwood
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 Burwood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in and get aroundSydney Ferries run a scenic route from Circular Quay in the city centre to the area via the inner harbour and the Parramatta River, stopping at various wharves along the way.
- Get in and get aroundFerries are the most convenient way to visit the waterfront suburbs of the Inner West.
- Go nextFor the visitor, the easiest way to cross into Greater Western Sydney includes by ferry further upriver (or use the train, or Parramatta Road) to reach Parramatta.
- Go nextEast - the ferry, train or bus will also take you back down-river to the city centre.
- Go nextApart from the regular passenger ferry that criss-crosses the river, an interesting way to cross the river by car is via the Mortlake-Putney cable ferry.
From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Inner West, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Burwood
Burwood is 10 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ashfieldsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.5 km
- Summer Hillsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.4 km
- Croydonsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.2 km
- Concordsuburb of Canada Bay, New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
- Haberfieldsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
- Concord Westsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.9 km