Lewisham

Worth seeing in and around Lewisham

9 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
   University of Sydney

   The University of Sydney is a public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania.

   4 km · Australian university founded in 1850 · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Al-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.

   3.9 km · mosque in Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Macleay Museum

   The Macleay Museum at The University of Sydney, was a natural history museum located on the University's Camperdown campus, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The museum was dissolved in 2016 and upon opening of the Chau Chak Wing Museum in 2020, its collections were amalgamated into it.

   3.9 km · natural history museum in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Enmore Theatre

   The Enmore Theatre is a theatre and entertainment venue in Enmore, New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1908.

   2.3 km · theatre and cinema in Enmore, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Sydney Park

   Sydney Park is a 41.6-hectare recreational area in the inner-city area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The parkland is located in the suburb of Alexandria, sitting along the borders with Newtown and Erskineville.

   3.7 km · park in 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.

   3.8 km · contemporary art college in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Gilgamesh

   The Statue of Gilgamesh at the University of Sydney, Camperdown, was created by Assyrian-Australian artist Lewis Batros on commission from the Assyrian community, and unveiled in 2000. The 2.5m concrete statue depicts Gilgamesh, an ancient Sumerian king of the city-state of Uruk whose legendary exploits are told in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an Akkadian epic poem written during the late second millennium BC, based on much earlier material.

   3.6 km · statue in the University of Sydney · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Camperdown Cemetery

   Camperdown Cemetery is a historic cemetery located on Church Street in Newtown, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The cemetery was founded in 1848 and was for twenty years the main general cemetery for Sydney, with the total number of burials being about 18,000.

   2.9 km · cemetery in Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
9. 09
   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.

   2.6 km · Anglican church in Ashfield, Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Lewisham

Airports

Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 6 km · Newcastle (NTL), 138 km

Stations

Wolli Creek railway station, 3.5 km · Sydenham railway station, 2.6 km · Newtown railway station, 2.9 km · Macdonaldtown railway station, 3.5 km · Tempe railway station, 3.1 km

• Williamtown → Lewisham

  137 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · A$22–29
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• Gold Coast → Lewisham

  691 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · A$210–320
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• Melbourne → Lewisham

  707 km · quickest by air, 4h 57m · A$220–330
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