Type: | town |
Woodhouselee | |
State: | nsw |
Coordinates: | -34.5658°N 149.6339°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in New South Wales |
Lga: | Upper Lachlan Shire |
County: | Argyle |
Parish: | Wayo |
Region: | Southern Tablelands |
Postcode: | 2580 |
Pop: | 15 |
Elevation: | 808 |
Stategov: | Goulburn |
Fedgov: | Hume |
Dist1: | 115 |
Dir1: | NE |
Location1: | Canberra |
Dist2: | 25 |
Dir2: | NW |
Location2: | Goulburn |
Dist3: | 25 |
Dir3: | SE |
Location3: | Crookwell |
Dist4: | 220 |
Dir4: | SW |
Location4: | Sydney |
Near-N: | Roslyn |
Near-Ne: | Middle Arm |
Near-E: | Middle Arm |
Near-Se: | Middle Arm |
Near-S: | Wayo |
Near-Sw: | Bannister |
Near-W: | Pejar |
Near-Nw: | Pejar |
Woodhouselee is a locality in the Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales, Australia.[1] It lies about 25 km northwest of Goulburn and 115 km northeast of Canberra. At the, it had a population of 15.
Woodhouselee is said to have been named after an early settler called Woodhouse or to be a name given by William Lithgow[2] 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.
Woodhouselee station was a station on the now disused Crookwell railway line from 1902 to 1975.[3] Woodhouselee had a state public school from 1877 to 1893.[4]