Glebe Taxi

Glebe is an inner-city suburb of Sydney located 3 km south-west of the Sydney CBD and is part of the Inner West region. Glebe surrounds Blackwattle Bay, an inlet of Sydney Harbour.  Ultimo is to the east and Annandale and Forest Lodge are to the west of this suburb. Glebe’s name comes from the fact that the land on which it is located was a glebe that was originally owned by the Anglican Church. ‘The Glebe’ is what a land grant of 400 acres given by Governor Arthur Phillip to Reverend Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the First Fleet, in 1790. In the 19th century, architect, Edmund Blacket, lived here. Blacket built his family home, Bidura, on Glebe Point Road in 1858. He designed it along conventional Victorian Regency lines. Blacket also designed St John’s Church.