Dural Village Markets
A monthly market in a club's presidential gardens on the Old Northern Road, mature trees, open lawn and dogs on leads.
About this market
The Dural Village Markets run on the second Sunday of the month in the presidential gardens at the Dural Club, 9am to 2pm. The setting is the selling point: mature trees and open green space rather than a car park or a school oval, which is not something most Sydney monthly markets can offer at this scale.
Street food, produce and design on the Old Northern Road
The stall mix leans towards the eating and the browsing rather than the weekly shop: global cuisine and street food, artisan bakery and locally sourced produce alongside art, boutique fashion, designer homewares, plants and gifts. That balance suits a five hour Sunday window in the Hills District, where the market functions as a morning out rather than a grocery run. Dural sits on the Old Northern Road on Sydney's north western fringe, in a belt of nurseries and small holdings, and the plant stalls reflect it.
Market at a glance
Running inside a licensed club's grounds solves the two problems that most often constrain a suburban market: parking and amenities. Both are the club's rather than something the market has to arrange, which is why the market can put its whole footprint into stalls and open lawn instead of giving half the site over to logistics. It also means there is somewhere indoors to retreat to if the weather turns.
The market trades in what the club calls its presidential gardens, a stretch of mature trees and open lawn behind the clubhouse on the Old Northern Road. Holding a market in a club's gardens rather than its car park is an unusual arrangement, and it is the reason this one reads more like a garden party than a stall market: the trees are established, the ground is grass rather than bitumen, and dogs are welcome on leads throughout.
Before you go
Second Sunday, 9am to 2pm. Bring a card and bags, and a lead if the dog is coming. Parking is at the club and is genuinely plentiful, which is worth knowing in a part of Sydney where public transport is thin and almost everyone drives. The Old Northern Road runs north from Castle Hill through Dural towards Wisemans Ferry, and the nurseries along it make an easy continuation if the plant stalls start something. This is Darug country.
Frequently Asked Questions
- When are the Dural Village Markets on?
- The second Sunday of the month, 9am to 2pm, at the Dural Club, 662A Old Northern Road.
- What will I find there?
- Global cuisine and street food, artisan bakery, locally sourced produce, art, boutique fashion, designer homewares, plants and gifts.
- Can I bring a dog?
- Yes, dogs are welcome on leads, and there is plenty of parking at the club.