Breadalbane () is a small village located in the

Southern Tablelands The Southern Tablelands is a geographic area of New South Wales, Australia, located south-west of Sydney and generally west of the Great Dividing Range. The area is characterised by high, flat country which has generally been extensively cl ...

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, Australia in

Upper Lachlan Shire Upper Lachlan Shire is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire was formed in February 2004 from Crookwell Shire and parts of Mulwaree, Gunning Shire, Gunni ...

. It is located on the

Lachlan River The Lachlan River (Wiradjuri: ''Kalari'', ''Galiyarr'') is an intermittent river that is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, located in the Southern Tablelands, Central West, and Riverina regions of New Sou ...

headwaters and not far from

Goulburn Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, approximately south-west of Sydney and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters patent by Queen Victor ...

. At the , Breadalbane had a population of 107.

Overview

Located in the region known natively as "Mulwarry" to the native Wiradjuri people, it was renamed to Breadalbane Plains by

Lachlan Macquarie Major-general (United Kingdom), Major General Lachlan Macquarie, Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB (; ; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth Gove ...

in 1820 (although there is a reference to a Mr. Chisolm naming the location after his home in Scotland). This little town is also located near and adjacent to the major

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which links Sydney to Melbourne via an inland route. Previously the highway used to go through the small town however it was bypassed in 1993 as part of the Cullerin Range Deviation of the Hume Highway.

Breadalbane Railway Station Breadalbane railway station was a railway station on the Main Southern railway line, serving the village of Breadalbane in New South Wales, Australia at Breadalbane, New South Wales. It opened on 5 November 1875 as Bredalbane, and was respelt ...

is also situated on the Main Southern Railway, the NSW portion of the Sydney–Melbourne rail line. The town was originally accessible via tracks arising from early settlement with the first major road into Breadalbane being the Great South Road completed in 1827. Presently, Breadalbane is located near the start of the Federal Highway which branches off the Hume Highway just south of Goulburn and heads directly towards

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in the

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, and the capital city of Australia where the

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Federal

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sits. Breadalbane is an historic town and it is located on the

Old Hume Highway The Old Hume Highway, an urban and rural road, may be described as any part of an earlier route of the Hume Highway, which traverses Victoria (Australia), Victoria and New South Wales between the cities of Sydney and Melbourne in Australia. In ...

together with

Cullerin Cullerin () is a small township in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. It is on the Old Hume Highway and Main South railway line in Upper Lachlan Shire. The Cullerin railway station opened in 1880 and closed in 1973. At the , ...

and Gunning. There is not much now at Breadalbane aside from a few houses. In the past there was accommodation and a pub, service station and a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

. However, these services are no longer available, although the former hotel and service station remain standing and are today used as private residences. The railway station opened in 1875 and closed in 1974, although the signal box remained in use until 1979. All trace of the station has been removed, although a loading bank is still standing. Breadalbane Anglican Church 004

The Chisholm Memorial Church (St Silas' Anglican church) at Breadalbane was founded in 1937 in memory of

Caroline Chisholm Caroline Chisholm ( ; born Caroline Jones; 30 May 1808 – 25 March 1877) was an English humanitarian known mostly for her support of immigrant female and family welfare in Australia. She is commemorated on 16 May in the Calendar of saints (Ch ...

Breadalbane Inn

The first licence for the Breadalbane Inn was granted on 28-June-1838 to a Mr. John Read. The Inn became a family home soon after the deviation of the Hume Highway and had progressively fallen into disrepair. A recent restoration of the building has uncovered colonial-era artifacts. On 1 February 1849, the Breadalbane Inn was the scene of a robbery when 3 armed men, "bailed up the host Mr. J. Fletcher" and stole 8 pounds in cash, "as well as some orders".

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