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Drummoyne

Drummoyne is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Drummoyne
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The place

Drummoyne is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Drummoyne is six kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Canada Bay.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Drummoyne

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
    ANZAC Bridge

    The Anzac Bridge is an eight-lane cable-stayed bridge that carries the Western Distributor across Johnstons Bay between Pyrmont and Glebe Island, on the western fringe of the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge forms part of the road network leading from the central business district, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and Cross City Tunnel to the Inner West and Northern Suburbs.

    3.4 km · cable-stayed bridge in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gladesville Bridge

    Gladesville Bridge is a heritage-listed concrete arch road bridge that carries Victoria Road over the Parramatta River, linking the Sydney suburbs of Drummoyne and Huntleys Point, in the local government areas of Canada Bay and Hunter's Hill respectively, in New South Wales, Australia. Despite its name, the bridge is not in Gladesville.

    1.4 km · bridge in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Snapper Island

    Snapper Island is a 1.65-hectare island in Sydney Harbour, Australia. It lies in the main channel of the western section of the harbour, upstream of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, adjacent to the Sydney suburb of Drummoyne.

    1.2 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Drummoyne NSW · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Drummoyne Oval

    Drummoyne Oval is a multi-use sports ground in the Sydney inner-west suburb of Drummoyne, New South Wales. The ground has been used for international women's cricket matches, domestic men's cricket matches and first grade rugby league as well as local Australian rules football and Rugby Union games.

    500 m · Sports ground of Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Boronia Park

    The Boronia Park, or the Boronia Park Reserve, is a waterfront parkland and nature reserve wholly within the suburb of Hunters Hill, in the Municipality of Hunter's Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The park dates back to pre-colonial New South Wales, with original and widely diverse flora and fauna:...Boronia Park is the best place to gain an idea of Hunter's Hill's pre-European landscape, as it has the largest intact stretch of bushland.

    3.4 km · protected area in Hunters Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sydney College of the Arts

    The Sydney College of the Arts is a contemporary art school that was a faculty of the University of Sydney from 1990 until 2017, when it became a school of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Until the end of 2019, the campus was located in Rozelle, Sydney and housed within Callan Park in the Kirkbride complex, a cluster of sandstone buildings designed by James Barnet, the government architect, in the late 19th century.

    1.6 km · contemporary art college in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Birchgrove Park

    Birchgrove Park is an urban park and sports ground located in Birchgrove, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on the waterfront of Sydney Harbour. It is also the location of Birchgrove Oval, the headquarters of the Sydney Cricket Club from 1897 to 1947 and a historic rugby league football ground which served as the original home of the Balmain Tigers club.

    2.6 km · park and cricket field in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    4 km · Anglican church in Ashfield, Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Joseph's College

    St Joseph's College is an independent Catholic secondary day and boarding school for boys, conducted in the Marist Brothers tradition, in Hunters Hill, a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded by the Marist Brothers in 1881, Joeys has approximately 1,100 students from Year 7 to Year 12, including over 550 boarders, making it the largest all boys' boarding school in Australia, and one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.

    2.8 km · boys secondary school in Hunters Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Tarban Creek Bridge

    The Tarban Creek Bridge is a prestressed concrete arch bridge that carries the Burns Bay Road across the Tarban Creek, located west of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia. The bridge is situated between the Gladesville Bridge and the Fig Tree Bridge, being immediately to the north of Gladesville Bridge.

    2 km · bridge 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 Drummoyne

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 11 km · Newcastle (NTL), 134 km
Stations
Goat Island, 4 km · Spectacle Island, 1.1 km · Blackwattle Bay, 3.1 km · Glebe Point, 3.4 km
  • Williamtown → Drummoyne
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · A$20–27
  • Gold Coast → Drummoyne
    686 km · quickest by air, 5h 8m · A$230–340
  • Toowoomba → Drummoyne
    704 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · A$220–330
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Drummoyne

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 Drummoyne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTo some islands you can catch a scheduled ferry service, either on either Sydney Ferries or Captain Cook/Matilda Ferries.
  • Get inYou can also catch a water taxi, or impose on a friend with a boat to drop you off.
  • Get inIf you catch a Sydney Ferry, it is part of the ferry network.
  • Get inMatilda/Captain Cook ferries, and they don't accept Opal, and only sell return tickets to Circular Quay or Darling Harbour ($17/$15) The do offer bundles with other ferry trips, such as their all day explorer ticket ($42/$26).
  • Get inWater taxi fares start around $50 and go upwards to around $200 which usually includes the first few passengers.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Harbour Islands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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  4. 04
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  5. 05
    WakatobiID

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

Around it

Next door to Drummoyne

Drummoyne is 5 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Leichhardtsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • BalmainSuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.4 km
  • Annandalesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • Haberfieldsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.3 km
  • Gladesvillesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.9 km
  • Pyrmontsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia4 km