Ryde
Worth seeing in and around Ryde
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.
- 01Boronia Park
The Boronia Park, or the Boronia Park Reserve, is a waterfront parkland and nature reserve wholly within the suburb of Hunters Hill, in the Municipality of Hunter's Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The park dates back to pre-colonial New South Wales, with original and widely diverse flora and fauna:...Boronia Park is the best place to gain an idea of Hunter's Hill's pre-European landscape, as it has the largest intact stretch of bushland.
3.4 km · protected area in Hunters Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Archer Park
Archer Park is a park in Bondi Beach, New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.
3.1 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 03George Kendall Riverside Park
George Kendall Riverside Park is a 27.2-hectare recreational park in Ermington, New South Wales, on the northern bank of the Parramatta River. The park is named after George Frederick Kendall, an alderman of the Ermington/Rydalmere Municipality from 1944–1948.
3.9 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Sydney International Archery Park
The Sydney International Archery Park is a stadium is located in the Sydney Olympic Park suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was specially designed for archery during the 2000 Summer Olympics.
3.5 km · stadium in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 05NSW Schoolhouse Museum
The NSW Schoolhouse Museum, also known as the New South Wales Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education, is located within the school grounds of North Ryde Public School in North Ryde, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The museum includes a replica of an 1870s classroom to be found in the original 1877 school building.
3 km · education museum in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Bennelong Bridge
The Bennelong Bridge is a 330-metre-long vehicular bridge across Homebush Bay between the Sydney suburbs of Rhodes and Wentworth Point. Construction started on 1 September 2014, and it opened on 22 May 2016.
2.4 km · bridge in Australia · Wikipedia - 07St Joseph's College
St Joseph's College is an independent Catholic secondary day and boarding school for boys, conducted in the Marist Brothers tradition, in Hunters Hill, a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded by the Marist Brothers in 1881, Joeys has approximately 1,100 students from Year 7 to Year 12, including over 550 boarders, making it the largest all boys' boarding school in Australia, and one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
3.3 km · boys secondary school in Hunters Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 08Parramatta River railway bridge, Meadowbank
The Meadowbank Railway Bridge is a heritage-listed former railway bridge and now cycleway which carried the Main Northern line across the Parramatta River between the suburbs of Meadowbank and Rhodes in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Whitton and built in 1886.
1.6 km · railway bridge · Wikipedia - 09Marika, Hunters Hill
Marika is a heritage-listed residence located at 46 Ryde Road, Hunters Hill in the Municipality of Hunter's Hill local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was built during 1904.
3.1 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 10Addington House
Addington House is a heritage-listed former farm, residence and orchard and now community facility located at 813 Victoria Road, Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1794 to 1841 in different stages by James Stewart, James Shepherd, Thomas Bowden.
800 m · heritage farmhouse in Ryde, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ryde
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 16 km · Newcastle (NTL), 132 km
- Stations
- Denistone railway station, 2.7 km · Eastwood railway station, 3.9 km · Meadowbank railway station, 1.5 km · West Ryde railway station, 2 km · Concord West railway station, 3.8 km
- Williamtown → Ryde131 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · A$20–26
- Gold Coast → Ryde684 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · A$240–350
- Toowoomba → Ryde701 km · quickest by air, 5h 9m · A$230–350
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ryde
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 Ryde. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBy ferry or hovercraft: The Fast Cat operated by Wightlink runs just about every half hour in the summer.
- Go nextThe ferry takes you back to Portsmouth on the mainland, or you can sail from Cowes to Southampton.
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Next door to Ryde
Ryde is 11 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Concord Westsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.2 km
- Gladesvillesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.1 km
- Eastwoodsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
- West Rydesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.2 km
- North Rydesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3 km
- Rhodessuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.5 km