About Woodford & Linden, NSW
Historic small towns along the Great Western Highway in the Blue Mountains of NSW. They were originally named for their distance from Emu Ford on the Nepean River and their sheltered locations.
Linden (526m)
This location was originally known as Seventeen Mile Hollow. A toll house
and turnpike gates were erected here in 1849. The toll keeper, Thomas
Ellison, acquired some 5 acres of land adjacent to the toll bar and built an inn
here ca1857. The toll house, gates and inn were all demolished during the
railway works of the mid-1860s. In 1874 a railway platform was constructed
here and took its name from the nearby Linden House, a private residence
only recently erected by businessman William Henderson.
Woodford (607m)
This location was first referred to as Twenty Mile Hollow. In the early 1830s an
inn called The Woodman was opened. During the 1840s this inn became
known as The King’s Arms and, when its last licensee William Buss took over
in 1855, it was popularly referred to as Buss’s Inn. When the railway arrived in
1867 the first station also took the name of this popular publican. However,
the inn was soon sold to Alfred Fairfax, a Sydney jeweller, who converted it
into a private residence and renamed it Woodford House. The railway station
was renamed Woodford in 1871. Woodford House eventually became the
Woodford Academy, a private school for boys. It is now in the hands of the
National Trust.
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