Bathurst, New South Wales
Bathurst is a regional city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. It is about north-west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council. Bathurst is the oldest inland settlement in Australia and had a population of approximately 35,000 as at the 2016 Census.
Bathurst, New South Wales
Bathurst is unusual in that it has a collection of house museums representing different periods of its history from first settlement to the 1970s. The house museums include "Old Government Cottage" built 1837–1860, "Abercrombie House" a 40-room historic mansion built c. 1870s, "Miss Traill's House" built in 1845, and "Chifley Home" which retains the simple furnishings that demonstrated the lifestyle and image of Chifley as a ‘plain man’.