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West Pymble

West Pymble is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north-west of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

West Pymble
West Pymble · Wikimedia Commons
The place

West Pymble is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north-west of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. Pymble is a separate suburb to the east, sharing the postcode of 2073.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Pymble

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
    Macquarie University

    Macquarie University is a public research university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the Sydney metropolitan area.

    1.7 km · university in Sydney, New South Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lane Cove National Park

    The Lane Cove National Park is a protected national park that is located within metropolitan Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. The 670-hectare national park is situated about 10 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and features various vegetation types, such as, wet and dry sclerophyll forest, heathland, mangroves and tidal flats.

    2.4 km · National Park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Macquarie Centre

    Macquarie Centre is a shopping centre in the suburb of Macquarie Park in the Northern Sydney region of Sydney and is located opposite the main campus of Macquarie University.

    1.4 km · shopping mall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    NSW 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.

    3.3 km · education museum in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Macquarie University Library

    Waranara Library, also known as Macquarie University Library, is the campus library of Macquarie University and the largest academic library in Northern Sydney. The library holds over 1.8 million print and electronic items, including books, journals, newspapers, reports, conference proceedings, working papers, maps, Macquarie postgraduate theses, computer software, multimedia, microfilm, microfiche and additional non-print resources.

    1.7 km · academic library · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Australian School of Advanced Medicine

    The Australian School of Advanced Medicine is the first and only medical school in Australia to award degrees for sub-specialties in surgery in addition to PhD research opportunities for doctors. The school is based within the University Clinic Building adjacent and connected to the Macquarie University Hospital.

    1.2 km · medical school associated with Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Eryldene, Gordon

    Eryldene is a heritage-listed former family residence and now house museum located at 17 McIntosh Street in the suburb of Gordon, on the Upper North Shore region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by William Hardy Wilson and built from 1913 to 1936 by Rudolph G. Ochs.

    3.1 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tulkiyan

    Tulkiyan is a heritage-listed former suburban residence and former house museum at 707 Pacific Highway, in the Sydney suburb of Gordon in the Ku-ring-gai Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Bertrand James Waterhouse of Waterhouse and Lake, and built by Mr Ochs; garden laid out by Mr Mottram.

    2.7 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Cossington

    Cossington is a heritage-listed residence located at 43 Ku-Ring-Gai Avenue, in the Sydney suburb of Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Nixon and Allen and built in 1899.

    3.8 km · "Heritage place or item located at 43 Ku-Ring-Gai Avenue Turramurra New South Wales, Australia" · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Eric Pratten House

    The Eric Pratten House is a heritage-listed residence located at 29 Telegraph Road in the Sydney suburb of Pymble, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and built from 1935 to 1936.

    3.2 km · historic site 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 West Pymble

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 21 km · Newcastle (NTL), 126 km
Stations
Pymble railway station, 2.7 km · Turramurra railway station, 3.6 km · Gordon railway station, 2.8 km · Killara railway station, 3.3 km
  • Williamtown → West Pymble
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · A$19–25
  • Gold Coast → West Pymble
    678 km · quickest by air, 5h 35m · A$250–370
  • Toowoomba → West Pymble
    695 km · quickest by air, 5h 23m · A$250–370
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Pymble

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe region is well serviced by public transport with trains, buses and ferries servicing the area.
  • Get inThere are regular ferries from Sydney and it makes a great way to get to places near the Parramatta and Lane Cove Rivers.
  • Go nextTake the ferry from Woolwich Wharf to historic Cockatoo Island.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Macquarie 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

    971 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,111 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,286 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,882 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,252 km

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

Around it

Next door to West Pymble

West Pymble is 14 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Eppingsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia4 km
  • Macquarie Parksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.4 km
  • North Rydesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.4 km
  • Marsfieldsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
  • Pymblesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.4 km
  • Killarasuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.5 km