1 Coworking Spaces in Penrith

About Penrith

Dating back to the early 1800s, Penrith is a suburb of Sydney in New South Wales. An historical suburb that is home to Mick Fanning (world champion surfer 2007) and numerous exceptional rugby players, Penrith is 1 of only 4 "cities" within the Sydney metropolitan area. It was named after the town of Penrith in Cumbria of England, but how it got this name is anyone's guess. It sits on the Nepean River where its ancestors, the Darug people, lived in makeshift huts and led a hunter/gatherer existence of fishing the river and hunting its banks. Settlers arrived in 1804 with its first courthouse built in 1817, a post office in 1828 and the Anglican Church of St Stephens was constructed in 1839. The railway line came to Penrith in 1863 and it officially became a city in 1959.

Penrith is one of the major commercial centers of Sydney where large shopping complexes have taken over much of the landscape. Close to Penrith you will find campuses for the University of Sydney, the University of Western Sydney and the Sydney International Regatta Center; hence it is the scene for the annual "Head of the River" regatta.

You can meander around the Red Cow Hotel that is the oldest standing hotel in Penrith and there are numerous heritage-listed buildings to take a peek through. For the museum buff there is the Penrith Museum of Fire, or for those that like to see how their favorite drink is concocted, there is the Penrith Sake Brewery. You can even take a peed at an old-world paddle wheeler "Nepean Belle" that once upon a time floated on the Nepean River.

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