Hurlstone Park
Hurlstone Park is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Hurlstone Park is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Hurlstone Park is located nine kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is mostly in the local government area of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, and partly in the Inner West Council. The suburb is bounded by: the Cooks River to the south, Garnet Street to the east, New Canterbury Road to the north, Canterbury Road to the north-west, and Church Street to the west. Hurlstone Park is often called 'Hurlo' by locals or as the Sydney Morning Herald once famously described it's at the 'Paris end' of the Canterbury LGA.
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Worth seeing in and around Hurlstone Park
7 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.
- 01Al-Zahra Mosque
The Al Zahra Mosque, more commonly known as the Al Zahra Mosque, is a Twelver Shi'ite mosque located in Arncliffe, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1980, it is Australia's first and largest Shia mosque and also one of the Australia's largest mosques.
3.1 km · mosque in Australia · Wikipedia - 02Alexandra Canal
The Alexandra Canal, a tributary of the Cooks River, is a heritage-listed artificial waterway in southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Alexandra Canal was named after Princess Alexandra, who married Edward, Prince of Wales in 1863.
3.9 km · canal in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 03St 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.
3.2 km · Anglican church in Ashfield, Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Timber Slab Cottage, Tempe
Timber Slab Cottage is a heritage-listed residence at 44 Barden Street, Tempe, Inner West Council, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1840 to 1850.
3.5 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Petersham 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.
3 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Petersham 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.
3.1 km · town hall in Australia · Wikipedia - 07Nelson Lodge
Nelson Lodge is a heritage-listed residence at 125 Unwins Bridge Road, Tempe, New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1858.
3 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hurlstone Park
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 6 km · Newcastle (NTL), 140 km
- Stations
- Wolli Creek railway station, 3 km · Bexley North railway station, 3.3 km · Arncliffe railway station, 3.3 km · Tempe railway station, 3 km · Sydenham railway station, 3.6 km
- Williamtown → Hurlstone Park139 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · A$22–29
- Gold Coast → Hurlstone Park693 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · A$210–320
- Melbourne → Hurlstone Park705 km · quickest by air, 4h 57m · A$220–330
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hurlstone Park
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 Hurlstone Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inOn cruise days there is a ferry operating to Darling Harbour, as well as taxis and transfer services organised by the cruise companies (usually to the city and airport).
- Get aroundThe public transport system consists of train, metro, light rail, ferry, and bus services, and can get you virtually anywhere in the city as well as the outer regions.
- Get aroundThe sign "T" in orange means train, "M" in teal means metro, "L" in red means light rail, "F" in green means ferry, "B" in blue means bus, and "C" in purple means coach.
- Get aroundSome ferries and buses have disabled access.
- Get aroundThe fare system covers all train, metro, light rail, ferry and bus services in Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong and the surrounding regions.
From Wikivoyage: Sydney, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Hurlstone Park
Hurlstone Park is 9 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Leichhardtsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.9 km
- Ashfieldsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.4 km
- Marrickvillesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.8 km
- Croydonsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.7 km
- Summer Hillsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.4 km
- Arncliffesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km