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Sydney Guided Walks - Picton
Picton Walk
A Day in the Country
$20.00pp (Group Discounts Available)
Picton is an unspoilt rural village (despite being only 80kms
from Sydney) that has many historic sites including the famous 1863
Picton viaduct.
The walk starts near the railway station so you can come
by train or hire a bus or drive. Prior to this walk, groups visit
a beautifully restored 1860's railway workers cottage.
After refreshments at the cottage, the walk takes you under
the viaduct, past paddocks of cows and horses, little cottages,
ornate Victorian buildings through the village which has an Edmund
Blacket designed church to finish at the George the IV This pub
and brewery was built in 1839.
Upon request, we can make a lunch booking here for your group.
If groups have come by hired bus, they have the option of
a bus commentary instead of, or as well as, the walk.
$20.00pp (Group Discounts Available)
Ask us for train times and platform numbers.
More Information on Picton...
Picton is located on fertile land 68 km south-west of Sydney
and 171 m above sea-level in the foothills of the southern highlands
near Stonequarry Creek, a tributary of the Nepean River. It was
once a thriving township servicing the traffic between Sydney and
Melbourne.
With the rerouting of the Hume Highway the town has become
a quiet centre of considerable historic interest at the centre of
a dairying and mixed farming area. Its current population is 3589.
By 1819 Governor Macquarie had authorised the construction
of a road from Picton through to the Goulburn Plains. The first
land grant in the area was 'Stargard', a gift to Christian Carl
Ludwig Rumker, Governor Brisbane's astronomer, in honour of his
rediscovery of Encke's Comet.
Nearby Major Henry Antill established a 2000-acre property
in 1822 which he first named 'Wilton', subsequently renaming it
'Jarvisfield' after Jane Jarvis, the wife of his friend, Governor
Macquarie.
The station stretched from Stonequarry Creek to Razorback.
The family home still stands although now it is used as the clubhouse
for the Antill Park Golf Club.
The township of Stonequarry was officially established in
1841 and offered for sale as a private village. In 1845 it was renamed
Picton (already the name by which the district was known) after
Sir Thomas Picton, who had been one of the Duke of Wellington's
generals at the Battle of Waterloo.
Around this time another site was surveyed near Redbank Creek
and it was here that the government village of Upper Picton was
established, though it was locally known as Redbank.
When the railway arrived in 1863 a further settlement developed
around the station. Subsequent growth saw the three villages incorporated.
KNOWLEDGE,
FRIENDSHIP AND SOCIAL INTERACTION ARE THE GREAT OUTCOMES OF A WALK
WITH SYDNEY GUIDED WALKS.
email:
ellen@sydneyguidedwalks.com.au
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