Woodhouselee is a locality in the

Upper Lachlan Shire Upper Lachlan Shire is a 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 and Yass Shires. The mayor of Upper Lachl ...

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, Australia. It lies about 25 km northwest of Goulburn and 115 km northeast of

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. At the , it had a population of 15. Woodhouselee is said to have been named after an early settler called Woodhouse or to be a name given by William Lithgow to his "private township" after Woodhouselee, a small estate town south of

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, because of his early association as a student of the

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with the Tytler family. Woodhouselee station was a station on the now disused

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from 1902 to 1975. Woodhouselee had a state public school from 1877 to 1893.

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