It is home to livestock saleyards, farms markets and a traditional agricultural show. Cecil Hoskins is a birdwatcher's paradise. You can see over 90 bird species in this tranquil wetland, of which about a third are waterfowl. Moss Vale has a beautiful garden in the centre of town, located in Argyle Street which is the main street.
This garden is perfectly situated for family picnics, and boasts a lovely Tulip display in September. Every Wednesday live cattle sales take place. Officially named the Southern Regional Livestock Exchange, and turning over 60, head of cattle a year, makes this facility one of the best saleyards in NSW. Sleep in a part of local history at the Argyle Hotel , first built in , or the s-era cottage, Corelli Cottage.
Accommodation Events Activities. All rights reserved. Home destinations country nsw southern highlands Moss Vale. Moss Vale. Moss Vale, Southern Highlands. Moss Vale highlights. Food and drink. Mount Ashby The Southern Highlands Food and Wine Festival is back giving guests an opportunity to branch out and explore more of the…. The climate was bracing. The boys, like those of any school, were said to love everything about it.
The building was a mansion in the Thames Valley Tudor style favoured by the Australian rich in the early part of the century. The road to the Cecil Hoskins Reserve takes visitors to the site which is now nothing more than Christ Church which, ironically, was built by Charles Throsby and consecrated in after the village had effectively disappeared. The church survived because it was supported by people in the district. The cemetery is historic and contains descendants of Charles Throsby as well as the grave of Joseph Wild who gave his name to Wildes Meadow.
Across the Bong Bong Bridge over the Wingecarribee River is an obelisk which marks the site where the first settlement on the Southern Highlands stood. The village was short lived with settlers preferring to settle around Berrima. This wetlands site, which was once part of Charles Throsby's 1, acre property, has plenty of waterfowl, as well as the occasional platypus.
Kangaroos and wallabies can be seen on the eastern side of the reserve. It is also the start of the Wingecarribee River Walking Track which is a short easy walk along the river and back through regenerating forest on the Wingecarribee floodplain.
The website points out that walkers can identify "less well-known gums, like snow, swamp, black sallee and manna eucalypt trees" and spot "woodland birds such as white-throated needletails, welcome swallows and spotted pardalote. Eastern grey kangaroos also inhabit the forest.
And did you know you can find platypus shyly hiding in the lagoon? The reserve, which was created as a result of the damming of the Wingecarribee River in the s, now attracts over 90 species of bird. It was owned by the descendants of Dr Charles Throsby until and today is a pleasant, boutique hotel known as Briars Country Lodge. The elegant colonial Oldbury homestead, a handsome two-storey stone Georgian house built in by James Atkinson on land he was granted in , has been beautifully preserved.
It has a timber Doric portico and cantilevered timber stairway with a separate kitchen and cellar. It is now the centre of one of the finest gardens in the Southern Highlands.
The gardens are open during the main periods spring and autumn for garden inspections in the district. Mount Ashby is a unique winery, cafe, antiques destination and French furniture shop. The cellar door includes a cafe where wine tasters can enjoy Mount Ashby wines with home made soup, crusty bread and a Charcuterie Plate. You can relax at French Farmhouse Tables in a restored dairy and enjoy the view of the vineyard and the grazing Holstein dairy cattle.
The store is used to restore provincial antique furniture and where European antique furniture can be viewed, including Provincial 17th to 19th Century antiques sourced from France and other parts of Europe. Also on display are some of the uniquely crafted French Farmhouse Tables made exclusively from hand selected European timbers.
Their mission was to find out about the area so they could report to Governor Hunter who wanted to convince deluded Irish convicts that there was not a "New World" of white people living miles south-west of Sydney.
During the expedition Wilson shot a lyrebird and the group saw a "cullawine" koala. It became the first European settlement on the Southern Highlands. It was called Sutton Forest and the post office, also established in , was called Moss Vale. Another hill station in the cool Southern Highlands. The Public School was officially opened The first land sales were in December
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