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The Cattai National Park is a
The national park is situated on the
protected
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national park that is located in the Hawkesbury Hawkesbury or Hawksbury may refer to:
People
*Baron Hawkesbury, or Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1727-1808), English statesman
Places
;Geography
*Hawkesbury Island, an island in British Columbia, Canada
* Hawkesbury Island, Queensland ...
region of Sydney, New South Wales
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, in eastern Australia. The national park is situated approximately northwest of the Sydney central business district and approximately from . It includes Mitchell Park and Hope Farm.
Location and features
The national park is situated on the Hawkesbury River
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and consists of three areas, Cattai Park at the junction of Cattai Creek and the Hawkesbury River, Hope Farm which adjoins Cattai Park to the north, and Mitchell Park approximately upstream along Cattai Creek.
Part of the national park was an original First Fleet grant
Grant or Grants may refer to:
Places
*Grant County (disambiguation)
Australia
* Grant, Queensland, a locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia
United Kingdom
* Castle Grant
United States
* Grant, Alabama
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and the park contains important historic and archaeological resources, including a homestead built in the 1820s, ruins of a
stone windmill which is thought to be the oldest industrial building in Australia, convict-built dry stone walls, and a range of other features which reflect changes in the place since the early nineteenth century. The national park also contains a number of Aboriginal sites which are of importance to our understanding of the Cattai area prior to European settlement.
The Cattai Homestead, which was constructed around 1820, and its curtilage is listed by the National Trust
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and the Australian Heritage Commission
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. The Hope Farm Mill on Hope Farm, which is also listed on the Register of the National Estate, was probably constructed around 1806 and is believed to be the oldest industrial site in Australia.
See also
*Protected areas of New South Wales
The Protected areas of New South Wales include both terrestrial and marine protected areas. there are 225 national parks in New South Wales.
Based on the Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD) 2020 data there are 2136 separat ...
* Cattai, New South Wales
References
External links
* * * * National parks of New South Wales Protected areas established in 1992 1992 establishments in Australia Hawkesbury River {{NewSouthWales-protected-area-stub