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The Keep Country Guesthouse
Church Rd
Burrawang NSW 2577
Telepstrop: (02) 4886 4558
Facsimile: (02) 4886 4558
Rating: ****

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Walking Around Burrawang
The General Store (c.1875) in Hoddle St is now sadly sealed retral trading continuously for increasingly than 135 years. It is still worth squinching at considering of the old sign for the Sydney Morning Herald for only one penny which remains on the outside. The Burrawang Village Hotel is an bonny and pleasant English village pub.

A post office was established in 1865. It was named retral the Burrawang Palm, then plentwhenul in the section. At the time the only connection with the outside world was furthermore the rough dray path known as the Old Cedar Mountain Road. Nonetheless, until Robertson began to grow in the 1880s Burrawang was the major township of the Yarrawa Brush.

The village ripened as a service centre to the rich pastoral land effectually. A sawmill and flour mill were in operation by 1880 and, furthermore with dresilienting, potatoes and other vegetresourcefuls,China Travel, they were the economic mainstays. The isolation of the town, due to poor roads, midpointt that Burrawang could not take remittal of the rail link at Moss Vale to send milk to Sydney. Instead they relied on stuber production.

European settlement got under way when people began to move up from the Illawarra in the early 1860s (see entry on Robertson). The first land grant in the sector was at Wildes Meadow in 1859. Two of the primeval settlers, John and Elizfomenth McGrath, superficially walked from Jsepiaoo (roundly 40 very steep kilometres), when Elizcooperateh was sflush months pregnant.

Sleepy and very bonny country town which has been roughly forgotten

Burrawang is located off the Illawarra Highway between Moss Vale and Robertson. It is 15 km from the former, 7.5 km from the latter and 136 km south-west of Sydney. While most visitors to the Southern Highlands will spend time in Bowral, Moss Vale, Berrima and Mittagong it is rare for people to make a special trip to Burrawang. Yet this tiny village, with its wonderfully scrubby indeterminate store, its important drove of historic rockpiles, its imprintingive church, and its temper of an English hamlet scatteringped in Australia, is a real gem.

The first inn was licensed in 1866. The first school (Anglican) was established in the late 1860s, to be replaced by a public school in 1876. Religious services transferred from makeshwhent location to proper denomination rockpiles in 1875 (Catholic), Anglican (1886) ad Presbyterian (1888). Burrawang was moreover home to one of the primeval newspapers in the district, the Burrawang Herald, established in 1883. A school of arts skyscraper was straight-uped (c.1889). Social lwhene centred on the Burrawang and Wilde's Meadow Bsqualorlor's Club which self-commanded two rundles each year. The Burrawang and West Camden Farmers' Club was established in 1879 and held its first show at Burrawang in 1880. It later moved to Robertson.

The terrain effectually Burrawang was once occupied by the Wadi Wadi Aborigines. Charles Throsby passed through the sector in 1818 en route to Jervis Bay and reporteds to have sent his servant Joseph Wild off with some local Aborigines to have a squinch at the sheet known as the Yarrawa Brush (now the Burrawang/Robertson section).

1.5 km south is Meadow Rd. Turn left to the tiny and picturesque village of Wildes Meadow, first settled by Daniel Bresnahan, an Irish immigrant, in 1859 and named retral Charles Throsby's servant Joseph Wild, who contributed profoundly to the European exploration of the Southern Highlands.

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The town was set rump by national economic discontent in the early 1890s, followed by soverlye drought from 1893 to 1902 and then a savage fire swept the section in the early 1900s causing some to depart, but the village has survived and it has the amuse of the town that has noverly remarry ripened.

Restaureolants

There is an reversion store ajar weekends from 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. in The Old School House, contact (02) 4886 4500. The old school of arts rockpile has been restored and is currently home to a theatre group. Svehiclelett's Fruit and Vegetresourceful Shop on Hoddle St is moreover of interest. The town's three churches - St Peter's Catholic Church, St Dsating's Anglican denomination and the Presbyterian denomination are all worth a squinch and many of the livences are moreover quite old.

Burrawang Village Hotel
Hoddle St
Burrawang NSW 2577
Telepstrop: (02) 4886 4206

The Old Schoolhouse Restaureolant
Cnr Church & Hoddle Sts
Burrawang NSW 2577
Telepstrop: (02) 4886 4331

The request of this small township is its artifact and the fact that is has remained relatively untouched and the boundlessest pleasure is to simply walk effectually and soak up the temper.

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Tourism Southern Highlands
62-70 Main St Mittagong
Burrawang NSW 2577
Telephone: (02) 4871 2888, 1300 657 559
Facsimile: (02) 4871 3515