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Stonehenge

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Glen Innes Severn Council NSW, PO Box 61, Stonehenge, NSW 2370
02 6730 2300

Description

Stonehenge is a rural locality on the Northern Tablelands of New England in New South Wales, Australia.

Stonehenge is a rural locality on the Northern Tablelands of New England in New South Wales, Australia.

The settlement is located about 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Glen Innes, on the New England Highway and just north of Beardy Waters. It is about 1,067 metres (3,500 ft) above sea level and exists mainly as a flat plateau strewn with granite boulders, some over 5 metres high. One of note is a roughly spherical monolith about 2.5 metres in diameter known as the Balancing Rock.The locality was named because of the local granite outcrops that were reminiscent of Stonehenge, England.

History

The land where Stonehenge Station was established is the territory of the Ngarabal people, who knew the area as "Hol'pin", meaning many casuarinas near a large plain.The area contains sacred sites and remains of great significance to Ngarabal people today.Stonehenge station was occupied by Thomas Hewitt in 1838 on behalf of Archibald Boyd making him the first settler in the Glen Innes district. In 1848, Stonehenge, also known as Boyd’s Plains covered an area of 320 square kilometres (80,000 acres). In 1886 the station was purchased by a Queensland grazier, George Morris Simpson, who built the Stonehenge homestead the following year.The Main North railway line (now closed) crosses the New England Highway at Stonehenge, which also had a railway station which opened in 1884 and was closed about 1974.

Stonehenge has a recreation reserve of about 32 hectares (80 acres) which includes a sports ground, shelter shed and toilets.

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Type: Rural areas

Population: 101 - 1,000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 74.012 km2

Elevation: 1001 to 1300 metres

Town elevation: 1085 m

Population number: 130

Local Government Area: Glen Innes Severn Council

Location

Glen Innes Severn Council NSW, PO Box 61, Stonehenge, NSW 2370

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Stonehenge, New South Wales