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Peakhurst

Peakhurst is a suburb in Southern Sydney, or the St George Area, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Peakhurst is a suburb in Southern Sydney, or the St George Area, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 21 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is in the local government area of the Georges River Council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Peakhurst

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
    Georges River National Park

    Georges River National Park is a protected Australian National Park, under the management of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. The park falls in the regions of the Sutherland Shire Council and Canterbury-Bankstown Council.

    2.6 km · National Park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Penshurst Mosque

    The Penshurst Mosque is a mosque in the southern Sydney suburb of Penshurst, in the St George area. The mosque is supervised by the Australian Islamic Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina Inc.

    3.1 km · mosque in Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Oatley Park

    Oatley Park is a 112 acres reserve located on a promontory jutting into the Georges River in the southern Sydney suburb of Oatley. It is bounded by the Georges River, Lime Kiln Bay, and Jew Fish Bay.

    2 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mortdale Memorial Park

    Mortdale Memorial Park is a reserve located in the southern Sydney suburb of Mortdale. It contains a war memorial commemorating local people who served their country in time of war.

    2.4 km · park in southern Sydney suburb of Mortdale · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Alfords Point Bridge

    Alfords Point Bridge is a twin 445-metre-long concrete and steel box girder road bridge that carries Alford Point Road as state route A6 across the lower Georges River between Padstow Heights in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown and Alfords Point in the Sutherland Shire in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The first bridge opened on 7 September 1973.

    2.3 km · bridge in Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Oatley Pleasure Grounds

    Oatley Pleasure Grounds is a bush park located in Oatley, New South Wales and it is located on Oatley Bay. The park is 3.4 hectares an sits within the Georges River Council.

    3.9 km · park in Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Como railway bridge

    The Como railway bridge carries the Illawarra railway line across the Georges River between the Sydney suburbs of Oatley and Como.

    3.8 km · bridge in Como · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Penshurst Reservoirs

    The Penshurst Reservoirs are heritage-listed reservoirs located at Laycock Road, Penshurst in the Georges River Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. They were designed and built during 1895 by the NSW Public Works Department.

    3.9 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Roselands Shopping Centre

    HomeCo. Roselands is a shopping centre in the suburb of Roselands in South Western Sydney, Australia.

    3.8 km · shopping mall 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 Peakhurst

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 12 km · Newcastle (NTL), 149 km
Stations
Oatley railway station, 3.2 km · Mortdale railway station, 2.9 km · Penshurst railway station, 3.6 km · Beverly Hills railway station, 3.4 km · Narwee railway station, 2.7 km
  • Williamtown → Peakhurst
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · A$22–29
  • Gold Coast → Peakhurst
    701 km · quickest by air, 5h 11m · A$230–340
  • Melbourne → Peakhurst
    696 km · quickest by air, 5h 13m · A$230–350
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Peakhurst

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you are travelling out from the city towards the southwest for a day trip you'll be moving against the peak, and can expect a quick run on the motorway.

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

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
    WakatobiID

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

Around it

Next door to Peakhurst

Peakhurst is 18 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Penshurstsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.9 km
  • Mortdalesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.3 km
  • Oatleysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.7 km
  • Roselandslocality in New South Wales, Australia3.9 km
  • Alfords Pointsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • Lugarnosuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.8 km