Woodhouselee, New South Wales

Woodhouselee is a locality in the Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales, Australia.[2][3] It lies about 25 km northwest of Goulburn and 115 km northeast of Canberra. At the 2016 census, it had a population of 15.[1]

Woodhouselee
New South Wales
Woodhouselee
Woodhouselee
Location in New South Wales
Coordinates34°33′57″S 149°38′02″E
Population15 (2016 census)[1]
Postcode(s)2580
Location
LGA(s)Upper Lachlan Shire
RegionSouthern Tablelands
CountyArgyle
ParishWayo
State electorate(s)Goulburn
Federal Division(s)Hume
Localities around Woodhouselee:
Pejar Roslyn Middle Arm
Pejar Woodhouselee Middle Arm
Bannister Wayo Middle Arm

Woodhouselee is said to have been named after an early settler called Woodhouse or to be a name given by William Lithgow[4] to his "private township" after Woodhouselee, a small estate town south of Edinburgh, because of his early association as a student of the University of Edinburgh with the Tytler family.[2]

Woodhouselee station was a station on the now disused Crookwell railway line from 1902 to 1975.[5] Woodhouselee had a state public school from 1877 to 1893.[6]

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Woodhouselee". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  2. "Woodhouselee". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  3. "Woodhouselee". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  4. Possibly referring to William Lithgow.
  5. "Woodhouselee Station". NSWRail.net. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  6. "Woodhouselee in the School history database search". New South Wales Department of Education. Retrieved 22 November 2018.


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