Bathurst, NSW

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About Bathurst, NSW

The historic town and later city of Bathurst in the Central West of NSW.

Also for images of Kelso, Raglan, Peel, Perthville, Georges Plains, and nearby.

Please note that there is a Sofala group covering Wattle Flat, Turondale, Upper Turon. Ilford and Capertee are now part of the Rylstone group. The Central Tablelands group covers the area between Lithgow and Bathurst, there are also dedicated groups for Trunkey, Carcoar and Hill End.

Hill End - www.flickr.com/groups/hill_end/
Sofala - www.flickr.com/groups/sofala/
Carcoar - www.flickr.com/groups/carcoar_nsw/
Central Tablelands - www.flickr.com/groups/1499019@N24/
Rylstone - www.flickr.com/groups/rylstone_nsw/
Trunkey - www.flickr.com/groups/trunkey_and_the_abercrombie/

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I noticed your beaut Bathurst photo in the group pool!

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I noticed your beaut Bathurst photo in the group pool!


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BATHURST

The government surveyor, George William Evans, was the first European to sight the Bathurst Plains in 1813. In 1814, Governor Lachlan Macquarie approved an offer by William Cox to build a road crossing the Blue Mountains, from Sydney to the Bathurst Plains. This first road to cross the Blue Mountains was 12 feet (3.7 m) wide by 101½ miles (163 km) long, built between 18 July 1814 to 14 January 1815 using 30 convict labourers and 8 guards. Governor Macquarie surveyed the finished road in April 1815 by driving his carriage across it from Sydney to Bathurst. The Governor commended Cox and stated that the project would have taken three years if it had been done under a contract. As a reward Cox was awarded 2,000 acres (810 ha) of land near what is now Bathurst.

Bathurst was founded at the terminus of Cox's Road in 1815 on the orders of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and is the oldest inland town in Australia. The name Bathurst comes from the surname of the British Colonial Secretary Lord Bathurst. It was intended to be the administrative centre of the western plains of New South Wales where orderly colonial settlement was planned.

Local Wiradjuri groups under leaders such as Windradyne resisted the settlers until the Frontier Wars of the early 1820s ended the open conflict.

The initial settlement of Bathurst was on the eastern side of the river in 1816. It is in today's suburb of Kelso. Each of 10 men were granted 50 acres (20 ha), five were men new born in the colony and five were immigrants. These men were William Lee, Richard Mills, Thomas Kite, Thomas Swanbrooke, George Cheshire, John Abbott, John Blackman, James Blackman, John Neville and John Godden. In 1818 Governor Lachlan Macquarie stated in his diary:

This morning I inspected 10 new settlers for Bathurst. I have agreed to grant each 50 acres of land, a servant, a cow, four bushels (141 litres) of wheat, an allotment in the new town, and to provide for them for 12 months from the King's stores.