| Type: | suburb |
| Glenhaven | |
| State: | nsw |
| Local Map: | yes |
| Zoom: | 12 |
| Lga: | The Hills Shire |
| Postcode: | 2156 |
| Pop: | 4,157 |
| Pop Year: | 2024 |
| Pop Footnotes: | [1] |
| Elevation: | 146 |
| Stategov: | Castle Hill |
| Fedgov: | Mitchell |
| Fedgov2: | Berowra |
| Near-N: | Kenthurst |
| Near-Ne: | Kenthurst |
| Near-W: | Kellyville |
| Near-E: | Dural |
| Near-S: | Castle Hill |
| Near-Se: | Dural |
| Dist1: | 32 |
| Dir1: | NW |
| Location1: | Sydney CBD |
Glenhaven is a semi rural suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 32 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of The Hills Shire, part of the Hills District.
The area was originally called Sandhurst, which remains Glenhaven's most prominent street. Crego Road, which runs off Sandhurst is the highest. There was some confusion with mail because of a suburb in Melbourne with the same name. A public meeting was held to have the name changed[2] to reflect its valley location. The upper portion of the valley was known as "The Glen", and the lower portion as "The Haven", hence the choice Glenhaven.[3]
Glenhaven is on the route of the Great North Road that linked Parramatta with the Hunter Valley. John Evans, one of the first settlers in the area, used a bullock team to drag timber, and the route he used became known as Evans Road. The area had many wild flowers, including waratahs, Christmas bush, boronias, native roses, and a variety of orchids which thrived there.[4]
Sandhurst Post Office opened on 11 July 1892 and was renamed Glenhaven on 1 January 1893. It closed in 1972.[5]
Glenhaven has one school
Glenhaven is served by four CDC NSW bus routes:
The Metro line from to is the serving train line with the closest station being .
Glenhaven is a leafy suburb with large homes on large blocks of land. On the east side of Old Northern Road semi-rural acreages are present, as well as a retirement village and the Flower Power Garden Centre. Since half the suburb is located on a ridge 180-200m high, the higher terrain homes have picturesque panoramas of the Blue Mountains looking out to the west.
According to the 2016 census, the small suburb of Glenhaven had a population of 6,501 people. Of these:
Glenhaven Rural Fire Brigade is a volunteer fire brigade with the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. It currently has approximately 50 members. The brigade has a Category 1 tankers, a Category 7 tanker and a personnel carrier.[7]