Torryburn is a small community located approximately 6 km south of
East Gresford,
New South Wales
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Australia
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. Its main claim to fame is the property on Torryburn Road, now known as Torryburn Stud, which was at one time the home of
Dorothea Mackellar
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem ''My Country'' is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "''I love a sunburnt country/ ...
, author of the Australian poem "
My Country
"My Country" is a poem about Australia, written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) at the age of 19 while homesick in the United Kingdom. After travelling through Europe extensively with her father during her teenage years, she started w ...
".
During the Hunter Valley floods of April 2015, the almost 100-year-old
wooden
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin tha ...
Torryburn Bridge was washed away, leaving about 100 residents of the hamlet isolated for almost three weeks before a temporary
footbridge
A footbridge (also a pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, or pedestrian overcrossing) is a bridge designed solely for pedestrians.''Oxford English Dictionary'' While the primary meaning for a bridge is a structure which links "two points at a ...
was created across the
Allyn River
Allyn River, a perennial stream of the Hunter River catchment, is located in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course
Allyn River rises on Allyn Range, on the slopes of the Gondwana Rainforests Barrington Tops, west of Careys Pe ...
. The
Dungog Shire
Dungog Shire is a local government area in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is situated adjacent to the Barrington Tops and consists predominantly of very rugged to hilly country which becomes less rugged from north to ...
subsequently created a temporary
detour
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road; a replacement
concrete bridge
Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time. Concrete is the second-most-used substance in the world after water, and is the most wi ...
was completed eleven months later.
Transport
There are approximately five buses every week in each direction. Buses depart at the corner of Torryburn Road and Gresford Road.
References
Localities in New South Wales
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