Toongabbie is located 30 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is located only four kilometers from the Parramatta CBD, Toongabbie is a suburb very much shaped by the 1950s and 60s. Though a new estate was added in the 1970s, it is the architecture of this era that dominates.

One of the first places in the Old Sydney colony with an Aboriginal name, Toongabbie meaning "a place near water" or "meeting of the waters" and is an area with much Indigenous and European history. Settlement began here in 1791 when Governor Phillip established a farm on which many convicts were employed. On 1st April 1794, the first grants were recorded as "in the district of Toongabbie" were made. By 1804 it was used only for cattle grazing and as a camp for convicts working in the area. It remained a farming area until pressure from the post war housing boom.

Governor Phillip established a government farm and convict station on 640 acres in 1791 to grow food for the colony. It was supplement to the farms already established at Rose Hill. By December 1791 there were 500 men working at clearing the land. After 11 years, the government farm was closed and the land was given as grants to settlers and convicts who had done their time.

The first school in Toongabbie - Toongabbie Public School, opened on the 3rd of May 1886. By April 1911, the school closed due to low enrolments. The school reopened February the next year and has stayed open ever since. The first post office in the area was opened after many years of campaigning by local residents in 1887 in a private house on Old Windsor Road and this arrangement continued until the 1960s.

In 1908, what was probably the second scout group formed in Australia, 1st Toongabbie Scout Group was organised by Errol Knox. The first scout hall was a barn on his parents' property, "Montargis" in Binalong Road. Later, in 1934, the Group moved to its present location in Bungaree Road on donated land which had also once been part of the Knox landholdings.

The first bank branch in Toongabbie, The Commonwealth Bank, opened in 1957 although bank agencies had operated in the area.

Toongabbie railway station is on the Western line of the City Rail network. The original unstaffed station opened on the 26th April, 1880 and was upgraded over the years with additional platforms and loading facilities. The current station was opened in 1946 and the line was electrified in 1955. The railway line and station of Toongabbie sits on the boundary of the Parramatta and Holroyd local government areas. The area's main retail area falls in the Holroyd Council area and is linked by a narrow road bridge.

Toongabbie shopping precinct for many years included a small suburban cinema, the "Rocket", located opposite the railway line, next to the overhead road bridge. It operated from sometime between the wars until the early 1970s, when it was closed and demolished and replaced by a row of shops and a small shopping centre and supermarket, the Piccadilly Centre, and bounded by the Toongabbie Hotel and the Catholic Church. This operated until 2004 when the shopping centre and surrounding properties were purchased by a developer for Portico Plaza.

Recently completed Portico Plaza features a Woolworths supermarket, the only Dimmeys Discount Department store in the Greater Sydney Region, and several other specialty shops including Australia Post, a newsagency, pharmacy, nail salon, florist and eateries such as Gloria Jeans, Portico Chicken and Akira Sushi. Ample car parking space is provided with over 300 under cover car spots available, free for up to 3 hours. If you don’t have a car, Portico Plaza is two minutes away from bus and train transport.

Toongabbie is also served by private buses with connections to Blacktown via Blacktown Road, Seven Hills via the Prospect Highway, Sydney, and both Parramatta and Westmead via the Great Western Highway.

Old Toongabbie is located 29 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, is only about  3.5 kilometres northwest of Parramatta CBD and in the local government area of the City of Parramatta.

Old Toongabbie is noted for being the third settlement set up after the British occupation of Australia began in 1788. It was founded as a Government Farm to grow food for the colony in April 1792. After eleven years, the government farm was closed and the land was given as grants to settlers and convicts who had done their time.

In 1860, the railway was extended to Blacktown but it took 20 years before any arrangements were made for trains to stop at Toongabbie. The first school in Toongabbie, opened on the 3rd of May 1886. By April 1911, the school closed due to low enrolments. The school reopened February the next year and has stayed open ever since.

The first post office in the area was opened after many years of campaigning by local residents in 1887 in a private house on Old Windsor Road and this arrangement continued until the 1960s. The first post master was a Mr Birks wand he was paid 25 pounds a year to manage the office and bring the mail bag over from Seven Hills on horseback each day. By 1922 the number of residents and businesses had grown sufficiently to support a second office in a weatherboard cottage in Wentworth Avenue, known as Toongabbie West. A purpose built office was opened in the main shopping area in Portico Parade in 1960 becoming Toongabbie Post Office whilst the old Toongabbie Post Office was renamed Old Toongabbie.

The suburb straddles busy Old Windsor Road, effectively creating two different areas. Both are dominated by single dwellings from the 1950s and 60s, though there is a small new development in hte suburb's east that is still being established.

From the 1990s part of this area was unofficially known as the locality of Constitution Hill. The suburb of Constitution Hill was officially recognised in 2007.

Seven Hills is located 34 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local governement area of the City of Blacktown.

Prior to European settlement in the 1790s, the area now known as Seven Hills was originally settled and occupied for hundreds, if not thousands, of years by indigenous people who most probably would have identified with the Warmuli and Toogagal clans, of the Darug tribe.

The vicinity of Seven Hills was first visited by Europeans very early on in the settlement of the colony of New South Wales, possibly as early as April, 1788 by Arthur Phillip or more certainly by Watkin Tench in June 1789.

Matthew Pearce (1762-1831) was granted 160 acres (53 ha) in 1795, which he named after 'Kings Langley Manor House' in Hertfordshire, England, where he was said to have been born. This area became known as Seven Hills from 1800, beacuse he could see 'seven hills' from his home.

Seven Hills encompassed a much larger area and as late as 1900, landowners as far afield as the modern suburbs of Bella Vista, Glenwood and Parklea identified their properties as being located in Seven Hills. In the 1970s housing schemes excised land that was previously part of Seven Hills to create the suburbs of Lalor Park and Kings Langley.

The railway from Parramatta to Blacktown station was completed as a single line in 1860. A station master's residence and siding were constructed near a level crossing at what was Toongabbie Road (later Seven Hills Road) in December 1863. A platform was built in 1869, and stops at the station were scheduled in the timetable from September of that year. The road bridge on Seven Hills Road across the railway line was constructed in 1975, replacing the level crossing.

Seven Hills Railway station is on the Western railway line of the City Rail network. Seven Hills is approximately 32 km by rail from Central railway station. Centro Seven Hills is a major Shopping centre in Seven Hills. It was originally opened in 1960 as Seven Hills Regional Shopping Centre.

The M2 Hills Motorway and Westlink M7 are two major arterial roads that link Seven Hills to other parts of Sydney. The Prospect Highway and Seven Hills Road are other major roads in the suburb.

The name Girraween is an Aboriginal word for "the place where flowers grow". Girraween first became settled in the early 1900's. Prior to that the area formed part of what was known as Major Wentworth's Farm. Dr. D'Arcy Wentworth arrived as the surgeon on the Second Fleet convict transport "Neptune" in 1790 and was one of the early settlers. He received land grants amounting to 2,750 acres which extended over most of Toongabbie, Girraween, Pendle Hill, Wentworthville and some of Greystanes.

Development as an independent suburb began in 1910 when land was subdivided and sold by real estate developer Arthur Rickard. The initial lots sold rapidly, some were later sold at much higher prices. Girraween was originally a street name in that subdivision, which had been named Toongabbie Park, but when the post office opened, it took the name of Girraween, which also became the suburb's name.

The School of Arts was founded in 1918 and it played an important part in the social life of Girraween. The Anglican and Catholic Churches held their first services in it. Girraween School also held their first classes there.

Girraween is serviced by buses that connect it to other local areas. There is no railway station although it is a short walk through Civic Park, to Pendle Hill railway station.

Wentworthville is located 27 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district. Wentworthville is split between the local government areas of the City of Parramatta and the City of Holroyd.

Wentworthville and Wentworth Falls, in the Blue Mountains, were named after the Wentworth family. A land grant of 2000 acres (8 km²) in this area was made in 1810 to D'arcy Wentworth, the father of William Wentworth, the famous Blue Mountains explorer. In the 1800s a land boom in the area attracted people into the area, land was subdivided for housing and small farms. The railway line had been put through on its way to Windsor, in 1864, but it wasn't until 1883 that Wentworthville got its own public railway station.

Recent years have seen considerable growth in the development of upmarket low-rise apartment complexes. Citizens of Western Sydney have flocked to Wentworthville's proximity to shopping, transport, health and other public services.

Wentworthville railway station is on the Western railway line of the City Rail network.The trip to Sydney CBD typically takes 35 minutes.

Buses run to Merrylands, Parramatta, Blacktown and the Hills area, and the Liverpool - Parramatta T-way passes right by the south eastern corner. The North -West T-way will go just along the northern tip (Mons Road).

The M4 Western Motorway and the parallel Great Western Highway run east-west through the southern side. The Cumberland Highway runs through the western side of Wentworthville on its way south (from Hornsby via the Pennant Hills Road to Liverpool).

Wentworthville is home to local rugby league team the Wentworthville Magpies, who play in the NSWRL Jim Beam Cup.

Pendle Hill is located 30 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Parrmatta.

George Bond (1876-1950), an American who came to Australia in 1906, established a cotton spinning mill in the area in 1923. It was Australia's first attempt to spin and weave cotton from cotton farms that the company owned in Queensland. He suggested the suburb be named after Pendleton, south of London, which was the centre of England's cotton industry but a variation, Pendle Hill, was adopted instead. George Bond was originally in the business of importing hosiery and underwear but during World War 1began manufacturing hosiery in Redfern and by 1925 was producing a quarter of Australia's output of hosiery and knitted garments. Bond Industries Limited became a public company in 1927.

The railway station at Pendle Hill opened here on 12 April 1924. The first government school opened in 1955 and the first post office opened in 1956.

Pendle Hill railway station is on the Western railway line of the City Rail network.

Civic Park is a large park located just west of the railway station. It connects the shopping centre to the suburb of Girraween, and is frequently used as a thoroughfare for pedestrians heading to and from the railway station.

The park has a small river running through one side near the shopping centre, and wildlife can frequently be found on or around the banks of the river. In 2006, the local council undertook a project in which the banks of the river were reinforced and the river was thoroughly cleaned of the rubbish that had gathered in the riverbed.

In the middle of the park, there are four tennis courts and a play equipment area. The latter proves particularly popular with the younger generations, along with feeding the ducks, and the former is frequently used by pensioners for a morning game of tennis.

Binalong Park (also known as Binalong Oval) is a large oval in the north of Pendle Hill bordering Toongabbie. The park contains two tennis courts and three ovals. These both are particularly popular for sporting lessons, and weekend sporting events. The grounds are home to the Pendle Hill Tigers soccer club who compete in the Granville District Soccer association and Pendle Hill Colts Cricket Club, who compete in the Parramatta District Cricket association, competitions at both junior and senior level.

Constitution Hill is located 28 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Parramatta and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

Constitution Hill was promoted from a locality to a suburb by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales on 19 January 2007.

Westmead is located 26 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local governement area of the City of Parramatta.

With the British settlement of Parramatta, Westmead was originally part of the domain of Government House. What is left of this domain, including Government House, form Parramatta Park. The name Westmead came into use when the governor's domain was first subdivided in 1859. The subdivision of the domain was completed in 1889. The Northern Meadow and Western Meadow of the domain were split off and called Northmead and Westmead. From this time orchards were established by many new settlers, including some whose names were well-known in the Parramatta area - George Oakes, Nat Payten and William Fullagar among them.

Parramatta Marist School was established by Fr. John Therry in Hunter Street Parramatta in 1820, under the direction of Mr. George Morley. The school was transferred to the site of the present junior school in 1837 and entrusted to the care of the Marist Brothers in 1875. This makes Parramatta Marist the oldest Catholic school in Australia.

Westmead Hospital is a major 975 bed tertiary hospital in Sydney. Opened in 1978, it is now the major hospital in the Sydney West Area Health Service. It is located on Hawkesbury Road in Westmead, providing a full range of tertiary medical and dental services except for paediatrics which is serviced by the adjacent Children's Hospital at Westmead. It is a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney.

Westmead Hospital is the base for the adult medical retrieval service NRMA Care Flight.

Westmead railway station is on the Western railway line of the City Rail network. The Western railway line from Parramatta to Blacktown was built through the suburb in 1861. A railway station at Westmead was opened in April of 1893 after a successful petition by local residents.

Prospect is located 32 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local governement area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

Captain Arthur Phillip called the area 'Bellevue'. In 1789, Captain William Tench climbed to the top of the hill here and gave it the name Tench's Prospect Hill. This was later shortened to Prospect.

Shortly after 1808, William Lawson was appointed aide-de-camp to George Johnston and was granted 500 acres at Prospect, which he named Vereran Hall, and built a 40-room mansion there. He died on the property on June 16 1850 and the property was eventually acquired by the Metropolitan Water Board. The house was demolished in 1926 and most of the property is submerged in what is now Prospect Reservoir.

Sir Joseph Banks is buried on in the cemetery on the hill.

Prospect is adjacent to the Great Western Highway and the M4 Motorway, providing road access to the western sections of the city and eastward to the Sydney CBD. The Prospect Highway links Prospect to the Hills District.

Nearby Blacktown railway station provides access to the Cityrail and Countrylink networks, especially Cityrails' Western railway line. Several bus companies offer connecting services between Prospect and Blacktown, via Blacktown Road.

Greystanes is located 29 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local governement area of the City of Holroyd.

In the early years of British settlement the area was known as Prospect Hill and was the site of the first land grants to emancipated convicts in 1791. At this period it was one of several areas of conflict between the indigenous Dharug people and the settlers, the Dharug being led for many years of guerrilla warfare by Pemulwuy.

The area later became differentiated into Prospect, to the west of Greystanes Creek, and Greystanes to the east of the Creek, the latter taking its name from a historical home on Prospect Hill, built by Nelson Simmons Lawson, third child of Lieutenant William Lawson. The name 'Grey Stanes', given by Nelson Lawson, came from the outcrops of basalt on Prospect Hill, "Grey" being its colour and "Stanes" being the Scottish word for stones.

The land was originally granted to William Cummings in 1799, before being acquired by William Lawson in approximately 1810. It was from this land that William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Charles Wentworth set out on their successful crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813 and discovered the Bathurst Plains. The Lawson family crypt still exists today at St Bartholomew's Church, Prospect.

Poultry farming became important in the early twentieth century until Greystanes developed in the 1950s and 1960s as a residential suburb.

The major arterial roads include Cumberland Highway, Great Western Highway and M4 Western Motorway. Greystanes is serviced by Westbus with the train stations at Parramatta and Merrylands.

It is also indirectly serviced by the Parramatta-Liverpool T-Way which runs through Smithfield and Wetherill Park, to the south.

Lalor Park is located 35 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Blacktown. Lalor Park is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

Lalor Park takes its name from the Lalor family, who owned property in the area. Two members of the family (George and Robert) were Councillors on Blacktown Shire Council, George serving as Shire President on two occasions, 1921-1923 and 1928.

This area was originally known as Seven Hills West and begun being developed by the housing commission in 1959 when it became known as Lalor Park.

Toongabbie
Girraween
Seven Hills
Wentworthville
Old Toongabbie
Constitution Hill
Westmead
Greystanes
Prospect
Lalor Park