Llandilo

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Llandilo is a small semi-rural suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is about 54 kilometres northwest of the Sydney CBD and sits in the City of Penrith, in the Greater Western Sydney area.

The area covers about 22.6 square kilometres and sits around 36 metres above sea level. In the 2021 census, 1,618 people lived there.

A southern part of Llandilo became part of Jordan Springs in 2019.

Llandilo gets its name from Llandeilo in Wales. Before European settlement, the Mulgoa people, who spoke the Darug language, lived here. They hunted kangaroos and emus, gathered yams and berries, and lived in bark huts called gunyahs. After the First Fleet arrived in 1788, smallpox reduced Indigenous populations and opened the land to settlers.

The first European land grant was given to Samuel Terry in 1818, who named the area Terry Brook. By the 1860s, the place was known as Llandilo. Today, it remains largely rural with large properties.

Llandilo Post Office opened on 1 July 1890. Llandilo Public School opened in 1866, and Xavier College, a Catholic school, was completed in 2008.

Postcode: 2747.