Guildford is located 27 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Cumberland City Council.

[2] Prior to colonisation, the Dharug people lived in small groups across the Cumberland Plain, including in the area which is now the Woodville Ward.

A small hamlet developed in the area around Woodville Road and by 1870 a school had opened here and a church was built here in the 1880s.

[2] Guildford is one of a small number of Sydney suburbs which houses the most significant portion of the Arabic-speaking diaspora in Australia.

The first arrivals were from Lebanon in the 1970s following its civil war and since then numbers have grown to make Guildford one of Australia's true multicultural places, with many other resident nationalities and identities adding to the harmonious mix.

He was a prominent business man (whose brother Arthur was an architect of Sydney's Mark Foy's department store – now Downing Legal Centre), was a Member of Parliament and also Mayor of Municipality of Prospect and Sherwood from 1892–1895.

Guildford is the location of the initial Australian market venture outlet of the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain.

He was a prominent local business man, Member of Parliament and Mayor of Municipality of Prospect and Sherwood 1892-1895 (now City of Holroyd).

Has an area of 19ha with BBQ with shelters, toilets, a mini wetland, half basketball court, and sculptures.

45.3% of people were born in Australia, with the top other countries of birth being Lebanon 10.3%, Afghanistan 4.6%, China 3.2%, Pakistan 2.7% and Iraq 2.2%.