Pitt Town is 59 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury.

It is named after William Pitt the Younger, the 18th Century British Prime Minister who is responsible for initially planning the colonisation of New South Wales as a penal settlement.

After the townships were christened by Lachlan Macquarie at a dinner in December 1810 at Government House, Windsor, a site for a village was laid out in early 1811 but developed very slowly, largely because of the distance from the river front and the settled farms.

By 1841 there were only 36 houses in the town, still largely due to its location being too far from the rich river flats and the consequent long daily trek for farmers to their holdings.

Pitt Town has also had an important relationship to the Hawkesbury River, being the site of John Grono's large boatbuilding enterprise in the early 19th century and had a ferry service running from the northern end of the township to Wilberforce which was taken over by the Presbyterian Church and remained in service until the 1920s.

For much of the 19th century, Pitt Town was an isolated rural community, surrounded by an agricultural landscape, producing large quantities of maize, grain and corn.

Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Pitt Town Airstrip was converted for use as a race track by James Hardie, where the Ferrodo disc brakes were trialled.

During the late 1980s, Pitt Town had been identified as the potential site of Sydney's second international airport, with the proposed runways (shown on official reports at the time), running directly through the present village area.

By the end of the 1980s, a proposal had been made to convert the nearby former Army training camp at Scheyville to a high-security prison.

During World War II a second airstrip was built in Pitt Town to cope with the additional volume of aircraft movements at the Royal Australian Air Force base.

Pitt Town has a large concentration of heritage-listed sites, indicative of the early and significant history of the area, including the following listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register: Sites listed on other heritage registers include: top responses top responses (other than English) top responses The majority of Pitt Town has an Australian or English background, with an Anglican or Catholic religious affiliation.

Long-term residents have shown resistance to population growth and demanded newer infrastructures to mitigate growing traffic in the area.

[16] In 2018, the Roads & Maritime Services has recently approved a long-awaited bypass of the township to divert through-traffic away from the town centre when travelling to Cattai and Wisemans Ferry from Windsor.

[17] Further, the low rental price despite a high property value may be explained by the distance from public transport, commerce, jobs, and other amenities which attract tenants.

[18][19] Pitt Town is 8.8 km from Mulgrave railway station, and has only two bus services at low frequency.

[30] The difference in property price may be a result of Pitt Town's averagely smaller land size compared to the surrounding rural estates.

The first and original schoolhouse was established around 1814 and was situated along present-day Old Pitt Town Road, near the current Church of England burial ground.

In 1981, Pitt Town became known nationally and internationally as the setting for Wandin Valley in the long-running television series A Country Practice (1981–1993).

The heritage house opposite Pitt Town Public School was used as the home of characters Frank and Shirley Gilroy (Brian Wenzel and Lorrae Desmond).