Centennial Park Facts

The many residents who rent apartments, have short term accommodation or reside permanently in the beautiful terraces in Darlinghurst, Paddington or Centennial Park areas have practically at their doorstep approximately 270 hectares ( 675 acres !) of magnificent greenspace for roaming,  when you combine Moore and Queen Parks (so close to a global city's CBD !). Centennial Park itself is a grand park in the Victorian period tradition featuring formal gardens, ponds, grand avenues, statues, historic buildings, and sporting fields.

Once a catchment area of creeks, swamps, springs, sand dunes and ponds fed by ground water. In 1811 it was the second Sydney Common used for grazing. In 1825 convicts built a 3.5 km underground aquaduct, known as Busby's Bore, from the swamp to Hyde Park. This was Sydney's main water supply. In 1888 Sir Henry Parkes dedicated the park as open space. It is one of the few inner city parks in the world to offer horse riding  and is an inner city mecca for walking, cycling, picnicking and just absorbing nature !