Mandurama is a village in the
Blayney Shire
Blayney Shire is a local government area in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Mid-Western Highway and the Main Western railway line, and is centred on the town of Blayney.
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Australia
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. At the , Mandurama and the surrounding area had a population of 355 people.
Geography
Mandurama is situated west of
Sydney
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, southwest of
Bathurst, and northeast of
Cowra
Cowra is a small town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre and the council seat for the Cowra Shire, with a population of 9,863.
Cowra is located approximately above sea level, on the ...
on 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, ...
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History
The site of the village and surrounding areas was home to the
Wiradjuri
The Wiradjuri people (; ) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales
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people prior to settlement, and the name "Mandurama" is derived from their word for 'water holes'.
A prominent pastoralist,
Thomas Icely
Thomas Icely (3 November 179713 February 1874) was an early colonial New South Wales landholder and stockbreeder. As a nominee Legislative Councillor from 1843, to 1853, and from 1855, until the establishment of responsible government in 1856, h ...
, came to the colony in 1820 as a trader. In 1823 he received a land grant of 800 hectares (2000 acres) at Saltram, in the Bathurst area. By 1831 Icely owned Coombing Park, and went on building up his acreage by purchase and further grant. By 1836 there were thirty convicts assigned to Icely's property and in September 1836 he asked the authorities for three more. Within a year he had 62 convicts at work at Coombing, assisting in the cultivation of 120 hectares (290 acres) and running sheep and cattle under two free overseers and was seeking five more convicts, but in 1839 the number had declined to fourteen in post, with a request for nine new assignees. Later Icely received a land grant of which he called Mandurama. About 1870 part of Coombing Park (under the management of Thomas Icely's eldest son, Thomas Rothery Icely) was sold to John Fagan who named his station Sunny Ridge. The 60,000 Sunny Ridge property originally included the Mandurama town site.
Mandurama was established in 1876 as a privately owned village for the workers of
Thomas Icely
Thomas Icely (3 November 179713 February 1874) was an early colonial New South Wales landholder and stockbreeder. As a nominee Legislative Councillor from 1843, to 1853, and from 1855, until the establishment of responsible government in 1856, h ...
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Coombing Park
Coombing Park is a farming property situated in western New South Wales just off the Mid-Western Highway about 5 km west of Carcoar, 260 km west of Sydney and 54 km south-west of Bathurst. The property is of considerable note bec ...
. A Post Office opened in 1876, followed by a school in 1877.
Mandurama has since developed, along with nearby
Lyndhurst into a modest service centre for the surrounding localities and farmland.
The Royal Hotel was established 1899.
Heritage listings
Mandurama has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
* 1521 Belubula Way:
Cliefden
Cliveden (pronounced ) is an English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire. The Italianate mansion, also known as Cliveden House, crowns an outlying ridge of the Chiltern H ...
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Cliefden Caves
The Cliefden Caves ia heritage-listed geoheritage site in Mandurama, Cowra Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The caves comprises Ordovician fossil localities, limestone caves, a spring and tufa dams, and a site where limestone was first disco ...
Mandurama was also the central subject of the group of photographs known as the
Mandurama Collection
The Mandurama Collection contains 3,444 photographs taken by Estonian-born photographer Evan Lumme, who lived from 1865 to 1935. Lumme arrived in Australia in 1881 and set up business in Ashfield, New South Wales, as a photographer. In 1900, he m ...
, now housed at the
National Library of Australia
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Amenities
![Saint_Laurence_O'Toole_Catholic_Church_in_Mandurama](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Saint_Laurence_O%27Toole_Catholic_Church_in_Mandurama.jpg)
Mandurama has a general store and cafe; service station; a
New South Wales Rural Fire Service
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The NSW RFS is responsible for fire protection to approximately 95% of the land area of New South ...
station; primary school; number of churches; golf club; tennis court; hall, and hotel.
Attractions
Mandurama retains a number of historic buildings, including two former bank premises, a former primary school, the Lincoln Theatre, and the Belubula Lodge.
See also
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Mandurama Collection
The Mandurama Collection contains 3,444 photographs taken by Estonian-born photographer Evan Lumme, who lived from 1865 to 1935. Lumme arrived in Australia in 1881 and set up business in Ashfield, New South Wales, as a photographer. In 1900, he m ...
References
External links
Towns in New South Wales
Blayney Shire
Blayney–Demondrille railway line
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