Woodhouselee, New South Wales

Woodhouselee
Woodhouselee
Woodhouselee
Location in New South Wales
Coordinates: 34°33′57″S 149°38′02″E / 34.56583°S 149.63389°E / -34.56583; 149.63389
CountryAustralia
StateNew South Wales
RegionSouthern Tablelands
LGA
Location
Government
 • State electorate
 • Federal division
Elevation
808 m (2,651 ft)
Population
 • Total23 (SAL 2021)[2]
Postcode
2580
CountyArgyle
ParishWayo
Localities around Woodhouselee
Pejar Roslyn Middle Arm
Pejar Woodhouselee Middle Arm
Bannister Wayo Middle Arm

Woodhouselee is a locality in the Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales, Australia.[3][4] It lies about 25 km northwest of Goulburn and 115 km northeast of Canberra. At the 2016 census, it had a population of 15.[5]

Woodhouselee is said to have been named after an early settler called Woodhouse or to be a name given by William Lithgow[6] 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.[3]

Woodhouselee station was a station on the now disused Crookwell railway line from 1902 to 1975.[7] Woodhouselee had a state public school from 1877 to 1893.[8]

References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Woodhouselee (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Woodhouselee (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
  3. ^ a b "Woodhouselee". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Woodhouselee". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  5. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Woodhouselee". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  6. ^ Possibly referring to William Lithgow.
  7. ^ "Woodhouselee Station". NSWRail.net. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Woodhouselee in the School history database search". New South Wales Department of Education. Retrieved 22 November 2018.