Emu Plains Taxi

Emu Plains is located 58 kilometers west of the Sydney central business district; it is under the local area government of the City of Penrith.

What we now call Emu plains was once home to the Darug and Gandangara people whose land extended into the Blue Mountains. The first British explorers to survey the land named it Emu Island after Emu’s they saw there; mistakenly believing the land was an island on the Nepean River. It was first called Emu Plains in 1814 when William Cox started building his road over the Blue Mountains from there. A convict labour farm was built in 1819 but it was closed in 1832 with the establishment of the village of Emu Plains.

Emu Plains sits located at the foot of the Blue Mountains on the western side of the Nepean River. Mainly residential it has a commercial centre Centro Lennox named after master stonemason David Lennox.