Wentworth Falls, NSW

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About Wentworth Falls, NSW

A township and a nearby waterfall in the Blue Mountains, Australia, both named after an explorer. Also home to the Valley of the Waters, the National Pass, the Lake, historic buildings and landscapes and many delightful bushwalks.

Wentworth Falls (867m)
In May 1815 William Cox, while building a road over the Blue Mountains, erected a "weatherboard hut" as a supply depot here. Subsequently, the locality became popularly known as The Weatherboard and that name was adopted by the inn which opened here in the mid-1820s (though its official name appears to have been The Bathurst Traveller until at least the mid-1840s). A mounted police station was also located here from the early 1830s until 1855. A railway station was opened as Weatherboard in 1867 and, along with the township that gradually grew around it, was given the name of Wentworth Falls in 1879 in honour of William Charles Wentworth, the explorer.

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