Sodwalls is a small

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, Australia Sodwalls is located about west of the state capital,

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and south-west of the city of Lithgow. The local tourist association claims that "between 1827 and 1829 a sod walls house with grass-thatched roof was built for troopers on Major Lockyers Road and called ‘Sodwalls.’" Sodwalls used to have a railway station on the Main Western Railway. This line is used by the '' Central West XPT'' service from

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with stops at Rydal to the east and

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to the west. Theresa (Cissie) McLaughlin, a Catholic nun who was superior of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor in Sydney, was born in Sodwalls in 1890.

Heritage listings

Sodwalls has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * off Cuthill Road:

Cox's Road and Early Deviations - Sodwalls, Fish River Descent Precinct Cox's Road and Early Deviations – Sodwalls, Fish River Descent Precinct is a heritage-listed former colonial road and now road and access road at off Cuthill Road, Sodwalls, New South Wales, Sodwalls in the City of Lithgow local government a ...

References

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