Glebe is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southwest of the Sydney central business district in the Inner West region.

'The Glebe' was a land grant of 162 hectares (400 acres) given by Governor Arthur Phillip to Reverend Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the First Fleet, in 1790.

Blacket built his family home, Bidura, on Glebe Point Road in 1858,[3] designing it along conventional Victorian Regency lines.

The suburb of Glebe was home to a first grade football team in the New South Wales Rugby League.

The Glebe Dirty Reds were formed in 1908 and played in the first seasons of rugby league in Australia, with home games at Wentworth Park.

In the 1970s, feminist activists took over an abandoned terrace house in Westmoreland Street and set up Australia's first women's shelter, the Elsie Refuge.

The demolition of parkland and houses in Glebe was averted after the NSW Builders Labourers Federation placed bans on such work.

A veteran Ironbark still grows at the grounds of St John's Anglican Church, at Glebe Point Road.

The shopping centre includes a food court and cinema complex, and completed a renovation in July 2007 which added a fourth floor.

The Blackwattle Bay Campus of Sydney Secondary College sits on the site of the old Glebe High School.

[25] Transdev John Holland route 370 runs from Glebe Point to Coogee via Newtown, Alexandria and the University of New South Wales.