Lyndhurst is a small village in New South Wales, Australia in Blayney Shire. It is 4 kilometres west of Mandurama or about 269 km west of Sydney and 63 km south-west of Bathurst just off the Mid-Western Highway New South Wales. Once serving as the major centre for basic goods and needs to the nearby Junction Reefs goldfields. At the 2016 census, Lyndhurst had a population of 267 people.[1]

Lyndhurst was one of the ten areas (including Albury, Armidale, Bombala, Dalgety, Lake George, Orange, Tooma, Tumut and Yass-Canberra) shortlisted in 1908 as sites for the national capital.[2][3][4]

Lyndhurst today

Lyndhurst General Store

Lyndhurst today boasts the still functioning Royal Hotel, a public school, a Golf Club, a combined service station/general store and a takeaway.

Heritage listings

Lyndhurst has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

References

  1. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Lyndhurst (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 27 January 2021. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ BBC Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia UPDATE
  3. ^ "Plan shewing proposed Federal Capital site in the locality of Lyndhurst. No. 6 [cartographic material] : Parish of Lyndhurst & Lucas, County of Bathurst, N.S.W. 1903". Trove. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  4. ^ "CAPITAL SITE". Argus. 9 October 1908. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Junction Reefs Dam, Land in the vicinity of". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H00702. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC BY 4.0 licence.

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