Marrickville
Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.
Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Marrickville is located 7 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the largest suburb in the Inner West Council local government area.
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Worth seeing in and around Marrickville
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.
- 01University 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.
3.8 km · Australian university founded in 1850 · Wikipedia - 02University of Sydney Library
The University of Sydney Library is the library system of the University of Sydney. It comprises eight library locations and seven study spaces across several campuses of the university.
3.8 km · library · Wikipedia - 03Al-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 - 04Alexandra 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.
3.2 km · canal in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Macleay 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.
3.8 km · natural history museum in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Enmore Theatre
The Enmore Theatre is a theatre and entertainment venue in Enmore, New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1908.
1.9 km · theatre and cinema in Enmore, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Sydney 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.
2.8 km · park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 08Chau Chak Wing Museum
The Chau Chak Wing Museum is a university museum at the University of Sydney, Australia. It was formed as an amalgamation of the Nicholson Museum, the Macleay Museum, and the University Art Gallery in 2020.
3.9 km · Australian museum · Wikipedia - 09Gilgamesh
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.
3.5 km · statue in the University of Sydney · Wikipedia
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Getting to Marrickville
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 5 km · Newcastle (NTL), 139 km
- Stations
- Wolli Creek railway station, 2.6 km · Sydenham railway station, 1.6 km · Arncliffe railway station, 3.5 km · Macdonaldtown railway station, 3 km · Tempe railway station, 2.2 km
- Williamtown → Marrickville137 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · A$22–29
- Gold Coast → Marrickville692 km · quickest by air, 4h 53m · A$210–320
- Melbourne → Marrickville707 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · A$210–320
- 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 Marrickville
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 Marrickville. 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 Marrickville
Marrickville is 6 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Leichhardtsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
- Ashfieldsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.1 km
- Newtownsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.5 km
- Summer Hillsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
- Annandalesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3 km
- Alexandriasuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.6 km