Woodhouselee, New South Wales Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Woodhouselee. OpenStreetMap. 22 November 2018.
  2. Possibly referring to William Lithgow.
  3. Web site: Woodhouselee Station. NSWRail.net. 22 November 2018.
  4. Web site: Woodhouselee in the School history database search. New South Wales Department of Education. 22 November 2018.