The creek then flows westwards though Rydalmere before turning south for a short distance and draining into the Parramatta River.

[1] Bird life include the White-faced Heron, Wood Duck, Pacific Black Duck, Australian White Ibis, Laughing Kookaburra, Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, Galah, Magpie, Noisy Mynah, Raven Rainbow Lorikeet and King Parrot.

It was site of the fourth land grant in the colony of New South Wales which was made to Phillip Schaeffer.

The nuns named the school 'Subiaco', after the Italian town of Subiaco in which Saint Benedict established his religious order.

The art historian Bernard Smith recounts memories of picking "great bunches of wildflowers" along Subiaco Creek in his youth.