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Merrylands

Merrylands is a suburb and town in Western Sydney, Australia.

Merrylands
Merrylands · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Merrylands is a suburb and town in Western Sydney, Australia. Merrylands is located 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of the Sydney central business district and is in the local government area of the Cumberland City Council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Merrylands

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
    Western Sydney Stadium

    Western Sydney Stadium is a stadium in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. It is primarily used for rugby league and soccer as the home ground of the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League, as well as Western Sydney Wanderers FC in the A-League Men competition.

    3.4 km · Stadium in Parramatta, NSW · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parramatta Stadium

    Parramatta Stadium was a sports stadium in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, 24 km west of Sydney CBD. The stadium was the home ground of several western Sydney-based sports teams, at the time of closure the most notable were the Parramatta Eels of the National Rugby League and the Western Sydney Wanderers of the A-League. Cumberland Oval was the local name for the cricket, motor sports and rugby venue that had existed prior to Parramatta Stadium being built, with the area having been used for recreational activities since 1788, the founding year of the British colony in New South Wales.

    3.4 km · sports stadium in Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta

    St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta is the Catholic cathedral church of the Diocese of Parramatta and the seat of the Catholic Bishop, located in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, currently Vincent Long Van Nguyen. Established as a church in 1836, the site was modified several times and consecrated as a cathedral in 1986.

    3.4 km · church in Parramatta, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Westfield Parramatta

    Westfield Parramatta is a shopping centre in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia.

    2.4 km · shopping centre in Parramatta, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Parramatta Park

    Parramatta Park is a major urban park and historic site in Parramatta in Western Sydney, Australia. It was gazetted as a public park in 1858 on the site of the former Parramatta Government Domain over 99.5 hectares.

    3.3 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Experiment Farm Cottage

    Experiment Farm Cottage is a heritage-listed former farm and residence and now house museum at 9 Ruse Street, Harris Park, City of Parramatta, Sydney, Australia. It is one of Australia's oldest standing residences, being built in c. 1834.

    2.8 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Rosehill Gardens Racecourse

    The Rosehill Gardens Racecourse is located in the Sydney suburb of Rosehill, New South Wales, Australia. It is operated by the Australian Turf Club.

    3.6 km · Horse racecourse in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hambledon Cottage

    Hambledon Cottage is a heritage-listed house and museum at 47 Hassall Street, Harris Park, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. The cottage was built from 1821 to 1825, with the initial section being designed by Henry Kitchen.

    3 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Bicentennial Square

    Centenary Square, formerly known as Bicentennial Square, is a civic square located in the center of Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It faces the 1883 Parramatta Town Hall and St John's Cathedral.

    2.7 km · civic square in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Aspire Parramatta

    6 & 8 Parramatta Square is a skyscraper in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, a centrepiece of the Parramatta Square development from Sydney City Centre). The building consists entirely of commercial office space, making up 120,000 square metres of floorspace, at a height of 225.45 metres, making it the tallest building in Parramatta and outside the Sydney central business district.

    2.6 km · Skyscraper 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 Merrylands

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 21 km · Newcastle (NTL), 140 km
Stations
Parramatta railway station, 2.5 km · Clyde railway station, 2.4 km · Harris Park railway station, 2.2 km · Granville railway station, 2 km · Wentworthville railway station, 3.8 km
  • Williamtown → Merrylands
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · A$21–27
  • Gold Coast → Merrylands
    689 km · quickest by air, 5h 39m · A$250–380
  • Melbourne → Merrylands
    700 km · quickest by air, 5h 41m · A$260–380
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Merrylands

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inin Wentworth Point, operated by Transport for New South Wales, is on the Parramatta River and is usually served with the F3 Parramatta River line with ferries from Parramatta, Barangaroo and Circular Quay among other locations.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Sydney Olympic Park, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    981 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,100 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,272 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,885 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,248 km

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

Around it

Next door to Merrylands

Merrylands is 20 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Parramattasuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.7 km
  • Granvillesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.4 km
  • Harris Parksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
  • Westmeadsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • Clydesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.8 km
  • Holroydsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia900 m