Guildford

Guildford is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Guildford is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Guildford is located 20 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Cumberland City Council. Guildford is part of the Western Sydney region. Guildford is the home of the first KFC in Australia.

Guildford was named in 1837, in honour of the Earl of Guildford.

Prior to colonisation, the Dharug people lived in small groups across the Cumberland Plain, including in the area which is now the Woodville Ward. The Bidjigal clan lived around the area which is now Guildford.

Lieutenant Samuel North was granted 640 acres (2.6 km2) in this area in 1817 and named his property Guildford, as he had ties with the Earl of Guildford. A small hamlet developed in the area around Woodville Road and by 1870 a school had opened here and a church was built here in the 1880s. After the railway station opened in 1876, a new settlement developed around it and the former settlement became known as Old Guildford.