Carcoar, NSW

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About Carcoar, NSW

CARCOAR, a village in Blayney Shire, New South Wales, situated on the Belubula River, 258 kilometres by road west of Sydney via the Great Western Highway and 720 metres above sea-level. The area is thought to have been inhabited by the Gundungurra Aborigines before European settlement.

Surveyor George William Evans camped at the head of the Coombing Creek in May 1815. In 1829 Thomas Icely received a grant of about 230 hectares and on 29 August 1839, the village of Carcoar was gazetted.

Carcoar was threatened in 1841 with martial law, for being a lawless neighbourhood, with many convicts and bushrangers roaming the area. Frank Gardiner, Ben Hall and other bushranging gangs raided settlers and travellers in Carcoar and nearby towns.

The arrival of more settlers and a police magistrate returned the district to an ordered state. In 1878, the Municipality of Carcoar was formed and in 1935 became part of Lyndhurst Shire, which was amalgamated with Blayney Shire in 1977. In 1974, the entire village of Carcoar was declared a Historic Site by the New South Wales Government.

Many of Carcoar’s historic buildings are also on the National Trust’s Register, including the courthouse, built in 1882, Blenheim Hall (1859), Stoke Stable, built by convict labour in 1849, and St Paul’s church (1848). Av. temp. summer (Jan.) 12.6-28.9°C.; winter (Jul.) 0.7- 11.9°C. Av. annual rainfall 786 mm. (Pop. 242.)
Australian Encyclopedia, 1996.

To an historian's eye, the beauty of Carcoar is that it seems to have almost one of everything that would define a typical late Victorian town - a Catholic convent and church sitting on top of a hill, a modest Presbyterian church, a discreet Edmund Blacket Church of England, a George Mansfield designed CBC bank for the money, and a collection of typical 19th century government buildings such as a railway station, a primary school, a School of Arts, a police station and lock up,and of course the beautiful James Barnet designed Court House.

www.carcoar.org/history.htm

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