We spent a night or two in Tenterfield NSW in Winter 2018. Tenterfield is a 3 hours drive from Brisbane Queensland, 3 hour drive from Byron Bay NSW and 8 hours drive from Sydney NSW.
The town is on the north-western part of the Northern Tableland plateau, nestled in a valley, astride the Great Dividing Range and beneath Mount MacKenzie 1,287m one of the highest points along the Northern Tablelands. Population is about 4,000 people.
In 1841 Sir Stuart Donaldson was running
18,000 sheep on a property that he named Tenterfield Station after a family home in Scotland. Sir Donaldson's holding which
convered 100,000 acres (400 km) of unfenced land.
The Tenterfield Post Office opened on January 1, 1849.
In 1858 gold was discovered at Drake (Fairfield) and a few places there after.
During World War 11, Tenterfield was earmarked as a key battlegound if the Japanese should invade Australia. During 1942 thousands of soldiers were set up in emergency camps, unbeknown to the locals, to cope with such an event.
Part Wikipedia.
Below is a Saddlery owned by George Woolnough years ago, his Grandson Peter Allen, wrote and sang a song called 'The Tenterfield Saddler'. The late Peter Allen wrote the song in 1970 and it was released in 1972, he was born in Tenterfield NSW.
That's me walking across the road, a lady took my photo but she took about 100 :) it was lovely of her to offer.
Not far from the Saddlery is the Post Office - I love this Post Office, it's one of the nicest I've seen.
Below is the School or Arts, a Museum.
A Church and opposite are the two houses.
