Chiswick Taxi

Chiswick is a suburb located 9 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district. Chiswick sits on a peninsula between Abbotsford Bay and Five Dock Bay located on the Parramatta River.

The area around Chiswick was originally known by its Aboriginal name Bigi. In 1850s a Dr Fortescue owned an estate in this area which was named Chiswick after the village on the Thames. Parramatta River at the time was also known as the ‘Thames of the Antipodes’ and other nearby suburbs was consequently named after Thames settlements Greenwich, Woolwich, Henley and Putney.