The suburb is located 12 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the St George area.

[2] His grant was originally heavily timbered and bounded by Wolli Creek, Dowling Street and Wollongong Road.

[7] Nevertheless, community concern remains over what is seen as the release of particle pollution from exhaust emissions into the atmosphere in the Bardwell Valley.

The park offers public transport access, family picnic areas, parkland, birdwatching, bushwalking, extensive views of sandstone escarpments, heathland and woodland forest.

The Bardwell Park - Earlwood RSL is also located beside the railway station and includes a new gym and the club has undergone a renovation in October 2011.

Bardwell Park railway station is on the T8 Airport & South Line of the Sydney Trains network.