Skip to main content

Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney
Multimedia
Grose Valley 1875

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Grose Valley 1875

By

Joseph Bischoff

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a128593 / SPF/Grose Valley (BM)]

Search

Browse

Browse
- Artefacts
- Buildings
- Events
- Natural Features
- Organisations
- People
- Places
- Structures
- Entries
- Multimedia
- Subjects
- Roles
- Contributors

Connections

Appears in

Lockleys Pylon

Subjects

Rivers and Catchments

Natural features

Grose Valley

Footer

Home
About
Copyright
Blog
Facebook
Twitter

Bischoff, Joseph

State Library of New South Wales

Lockleys Pylon

Lockleys Pylon, located in Darug country north of Leura, is a rock formation on top of Du Faur Buttress, 600 metres above the floor of the Grose Valley. The 360-degree view from the pylon take in the Illawarra and Sydney, mounts Hay, Banks and Tomah, the Darling Causeway, Hat Hill, Govetts Leap and the Fortress Ridge, as well as the mountains villages in between.With sites of significance to the Gundungurra and Wiradjuri close by, Lockleys Pylon looks down on to the iconic Blue Gum Forest, a haunt for bushwalkers and birth place of the Australian conservation movement. It was named by conservationists in honour of the supportive Sydney Morning Herald journalist JG '˜Redgum' Lockley

Rivers and Catchments

Grose Valley

Valley and gorge carved by the Grose River from near Hartley Vale to edge of the mountains near Burralow Creek and Yarramundi.

full record »