The Henry Lawson Way is a sealed rural road that links
Forbes
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, situated on the
Newell Highway
Newell Highway is a national highway in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. It provides the major road link between southeastern Queensland and Victoria via central NSW and as such carries large amounts of freight. At in length, the Newell is th ...
, to
Young
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, situated on the
Olympic Highway
Olympic Highway is a rural road in the central western and south-eastern Riverina regions of New South Wales, Australia. The highway services rural communities and links Hume Highway with Mid-Western Highway and provides part of an alterna ...
in the
central western region of
New South Wales
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Australia.
The road is named in honour of
Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial perio ...
(1867 – 1922), an Australian writer and poet, who was born in a town on the
Grenfell goldfields, located adjacent to the modern-day rural road.
Route
The road commences in Forbes at a junction with the Gooloogong-Forbes Road (
Lachlan Valley Way
Lachlan Valley Way is a New South Wales country road running from Booligal to north of Yass.
Route
Lachlan Valley Way commences at the intersection with Cobb Highway in Booligal and heads in a north-easterly direction for about to Hillston. ...
). It continues south over relatively flat countryside, crossing the Bundaburrah Creek and Ooma Creek, before it forms concurrency with the
Mid-Western Highway
Mid-Western Highway, sometimes Mid Western Highway, is a state highway located in the central western and northern Riverina regions of New South Wales, Australia. The highway services rural communities and links the Great Western, Mitchell, ...
west of . The concurrent road heads east into the town of Grenfell, where the concurrency terminates as the Henry Lawson Way heads south (on Weddin Street) towards Young through highly undulating countryside. It reaches its terminus (as Iandra Street) at a junction with the
Olympic Highway
Olympic Highway is a rural road in the central western and south-eastern Riverina regions of New South Wales, Australia. The highway services rural communities and links Hume Highway with Mid-Western Highway and provides part of an alterna ...
.
Major intersections
See also
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Highways in Australia
Highways in Australia are generally high capacity roads managed by state and territory government agencies, though Australia's federal government contributes funding for important links between capital cities and major regional centres. Prio ...
*
List of highways in New South Wales
The present highway network in New South Wales, Australia was established in August 1928 when the Country Roads Board (the predecessor of the Department of Main Roads, Roads & Traffic Authority and Roads & Maritime Services) superseded the 19 ...
References
Highways in New South Wales
Central West (New South Wales)
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