Darlinghurst Taxi

Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the Sydney central business district and Hyde Park, this inner-city eastern suburb falls within the local government area of the City Of Sydney and is known to the locals as plain old Darlo.

The suburb was originally known as Eastern Hill and then Henrietta Town, After Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s wife whose second name was Henrietta.With change of governors came changes of name and the suburb soon became Darlinghurst after Elizabeth Darling the very popular wife of governor Ralph Darling during the early 19th century. The Hurst is an old English word for a wooded area.

Now a heavily populated area with most of the residents living in terraced houses or apartments. Darlinghurst has 2 Sydney museums The Australian Museum and the Sydney Jewish Museum.