Peasants Nest is a small village in the Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia, near Bargo in Wollondilly Shire.

[3][4] Peasants Nest has a northbound and southbound roadhouse on the Hume Highway, and also serves as a freeway exit between Picton and Yerrinbool.

[5] The Peasants Nest Rural Fire Brigade consists of a two-way bin station.

[citation needed] Journalist Louise Milligan's debut novel, a crime fiction thriller published in March 2024, is named after the town.

It refers in particular to a notorious suicide spot, Peasants Nest bridge, which crosses the Nepean River on the Hume Highway.