Regentville, New South Wales

Regentville Sydney, New South Wales
Population	714 (2006 census)
• Density	585.2/km2 (1,516/sq mi)
Postcode(s)	2745
Area	1.22 km2 (0.5 sq mi)
Location	59 km (37 mi) west of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)	Penrith City Council
State electorate(s)	Mulgoa
Federal Division(s)	Lindsay
Suburbs around Regentville: Emu Plains Jamisontown Jamisontown Leonay Regentville Glenmore Park Megalong Valley Mulgoa Mulgoa

Regentville is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 56 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Penrith, and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. It is located on the eastern bank of the Nepean River, just south of Jamisontown.

Prior to European settlement, what is now Regentville was home to the Mulgoa people who spoke the Darug language. They lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle governed by traditional laws, which had their origins in the Dreamtime. Their homes were bark huts called 'gunyahs'. They hunted kangaroos and emus for meat, and gathered yams, berries and other native plants.

Following the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney, the indigenous people were forced off their land which was then granted to British settlers by the colonial administration. The first land grant in this area was to the Irish-born Surgeon-General of New South Wales, Thomas Jamison, who had arrived in 1788 aboard the Sirius. After Thomas' death in London in 1811, the land (at what is now Jamisontown) was taken up by his son, John, also a surgeon, who had served under Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, and was knighted for his medical services to the Royal Navy by the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom, later King George IV, in 1813.

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