Bennett Street, Lithgow, New South Wales 2790, Australia
Eskbank House Museum in Lithgow is a historic home, with splendid furniture, display of Lithgow Pottery and other period pieces, blacksmiths forge and a coach-house.
Built in 1842 by Thomas Brown, Eskbank House is a sandstone building in the Georgian style. The four front rooms have been preserved much as they were in Thomas Brown's day, and contain some beautiful regency and early Victorian f ...
Newnes State Forest, north of Lighgow, Lithgow, New South Wales 2790, Australia
The Glow Worms are located in an old rail tunnel 400 metres in length. It was originally constructed as part of the railway line to Newnes Kerosene Shale
Works. The line was dismantled c1940s. The tunnel is located 40 kilometres from Lithgow on the Newnes Plateau. Good walking shoes and a torch are required for the walk through the tunnel.
The glow worms found in the tunnel are the larvae of t ...
Hartley Village, Hartley, New South Wales 2790, Australia
The need for a police centre in the Hartley Valley led to the construction of the Hartley Court House in 1837. Over the next 50 years a bustling village
grew around the court house. The area was the judicial and administrative centre, with churches and accommodation, a post office and staging facilities.
It served both travellers and settlers west of the Blue Mountains.
In 1887 the village w ...
Hassans Walls Reserve, Lithgow, New South Wales 2790, Australia
Hassans Walls Lookout is the highest lookout in the Blue Mountains at approximately 1100 metres above sea level. Look out to Mt Wilson, Mt York, Mt Tarana and Mt Blaxland and the whole Hartley Valley below. To the south are the Kanimbla and Megalong Valleys and Mt Bindo (1363 metres).
You can also walk or ride around Hassans Walls Lookout. ...
Magpie Hollow Road, South Bowenfels, Lithgow, New South Wales 2790, Australia
Lake Lyell provides cooling water for both Wallerawang and Mt Piper Power Stations. The Lake is connected to Wallerawang Lake by pipeline and hence to
Wallerawang and Mt Piper Stations. Water for cooling is pumped from Lake Lyell Dam on the Cox's River, about 20 kilometres from the power station to
the Thompsons Creek Dam, close to Mt Piper, which provides an additional 27,000 mega litres of c ...
69 Methven Street, Lithgow, New South Wales 2790, Australia
In 1906 the Australian Government decided that Australia could no longer rely upon Britain for her defence needs, and decided to build a factory for the manufacture of arms.
The museum, situated in the grounds of the Small Arms Factory, celebrates the rich history of Australia's first high precision mass production facility and its people.
Over its years of operation Lithgow SAF accumulated ...
Via Atkinson Street, Lithgow, New South Wales 2790, Australia
An open air museum consisting of a former colliery site and three kilometres of rail line, The State Mine Heritage Park and Railway offers mine museum guided tours, coal mining displays, picnic areas and Heritage rolling stock and machinery.
Here the displays relate to mining history, steam power and the town's rail heritage. There are picnic areas at the powder magazines, nature trails, lovely ...
Jenolan Caves Road, Lithgow, New South Wales 2790, Australia
The McKanes Falls Bridge in Lithgow was completed in 1893 and is one of the seven McDonald timber truss road bridges remaining in New South Wales.
The bridge consists of two 90' (27.43m) truss spans supported at each end by sandstone masonry abutments. The centre pier was built as stone but replaced with a reinforced concrete pier in the 1980s following flood damage. There is no footwa ...
Newnes State Forest (north of Lithgow), Lithgow, New South Wales 2790, Australia
Newnes State Forest is located on Newnes Plateau and contains Pine Plantation of Radiator Pine, Natural Forest and Sandstone Escarpments. Provides access to Glow Worm Tunnels and Wollemi National Park. Bungleboorie Picnic Area provides a peaceful rest stop in Newnes State Forest. (The town of Newnes is located in the Wolgan Valley but there is no vehicular access from the Glow Worm Tunnel area ...
North Of Lithgow, Lithgow, New South Wales 2790, Australia
At the end of Wolgan Valley lies a reminder of the shale oil industry. The township and shale oil mining complex was established in 1906. The Newnes Oil Shale Mine produced low grade oil. Set within beautiful mountain scenery, a collection of shanties, huts and buildings for the mining process were built. Today the ruins of the site are all that remains Operational costs and the availability of l ...
North of Lithgow, Lithgow, New South Wales 2790, Australia
Wollemi National Park is NSW's largest wilderness area, situated on 492 220ha. A spectacular maze of canyons, cliffs and undisturbed forest. Descend to the Colo River on Bob Turners Track and enjoy the beaches in one of the State's longest and most scenic gorges. Interesting ruins at Newnes and a glowworm filled railway tunnel nearby.
Camp at Dunns Swamp, Wheeney Creek or Newnes.
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