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The Great Wall Of Mudgee

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· Pyramul, New South Wales

100 acres hosted by Nick & Pauline W.

History of the Property Our 100-acre property was part of the Wellington Goldfields located in the Pyramul Creek Reserve owned by the Commonwealth proclaimed back in the 17th of March 1884. It was first surveyed 18th of February 1911 and was sold by the Crown At the west boundary along the fence line, there are the old mullock heaps and tailings visible from where the old-timers were fossicking for gold. The area is about 5 acres where the diggings are quite visible still along the seasonal creek beds. These creeks only run after a fair amount of rain but they are still only trickle fed from the mountain named Tindalls Ridge. They may have been ancient river beds with the presence of river worn rocks that have been piled along the creek banks. There has been evidence found as to where people may have stayed and fossicked. A levelled area appears to be where they may have lived and the remains of fossicking equipment, buckets, tins, glass bottles and ceramic containers to name just a few were scattered. The dry stacked stone wall aka “The Great Wall of Mudgee” constructed along the river edge would have been used to carry water to the gold mine area for working their sluice machines to find the gold. The wall is approximately 600m long and takes about 6 minutes to walk overlooking the lower part of the gorge. You can only imagine the amount of manpower and time it took to build with all the stones laid nice and straight following the mountain to create a level walking track. We can only speculate that there must have been enough gold there to justify the time and effort to construct it. It must have been a very busy place back in the old gold mining days around 1855 to 1865. We first purchased the property in November 2014 and it was nothing but a vacant block of land with a road cut across the river crossing and a levelled area where the amenities shed is now. Some of the river banks were overgrown with blackberry bushes up to 9 feet high and weren't accessible. The Mudgee Council had the property listed with a noxious weed control order for us to maintain them as they were that bad. We have since eradicated most of them and the council are satisfied and removed the order. We had a bulldozer come in and cut a road over the top of the mountain and down the other side for access to the whole property. All the other tracks and areas were cleared by chain saws and the rocks removed by hand along with driving repeatedly over the tracks to make them as they are today. There are 4 camping areas available all beside the river with varying differences in natural beauty. We're so grateful to be the caretakers of our property with its natural features and history equivalent to any National Parks. We also hope that everyone who experiences it will build a life long memory of the adventure here just as we have done.

Activities

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Natural features

River, stream, or creek

Mountainous

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