Valley Heights, New South Wales

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Coordinates: 33°42′S 150°35′E / 33.700°S 150.583°E / -33.700; 150.583
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Valley Heights
Federal division(s)
Macquarie
Localities around Valley Heights:
Springwood Springwood Hawkesbury Heights
Springwood Valley Heights Warrimoo
Springwood Megalong Valley Warrimoo

Valley Heights is a small township of the

2006 census, Valley Heights had a population of 1,337 people.[2]

Valley Heights developed its own piece of the ridgeline that has been the main route west from Sydney since colonial history, and has some strong evidence of a rich pre-colonial inhabitance. At an elevation of 300 to 320 metres (980–1,050 ft) above sea level, the climate has been considered very conducive to a huge range of plants. The native ecological communities are fairly typical of other Hawkesbury sandstone with shale transition forests, yet exhibit the local specificness we have come to expect in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Current development is restricted by council reserves and National Park

Valley Heights has a

rail museum
and the historic Gatekeepers cottage where the gatekeeper employed by the railway lived in the early steam era.

History

Valley Heights is a small historic railway town located in the lower foothills of the Blue Mountains. It developed in the 19th century around the railway station with a platform called Eagar's Platform, now known as Valley Heights railway station, after the colonial politician and treasurer Geoffrey Eagar, who lived in a house just opposite the railway station. In 1880, it was officially renamed Valley Heights to its present name.

On 31 January 1914, the

railway museum, its locomotive depot was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register
on 2 April 1999.

Heritage listings

Valley Heights has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Commercial area

Valley Heights' commercial area centres on and north of the Great Western Highway, comprising light industrial and hardware retail services.

Churches

  • St Marks Anglican Church operated in Valley Heights for many years before closing in the late 1980s.
  • Valley Heights Community Church met at Blue Mountains Grammar Valley Heights campus, as part of Anglican Churches Springwood from 2005 to 2012. This congregation has now merged with Factory Morning Church at Anglican Churches Springwood.

Schools

  • The Preparatory Campus of the Blue Mountains Grammar School was built in Valley Heights in 2003.
  • Other primary and secondary schools are in nearby
    Winmalee

Transport

Railway

Valley Heights has a railway station on the Blue Mountains Line of the NSW TrainLink intercity network.

Valley Heights is the start of the steeply graded, 1 in 33 (3%) section to

Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum
.

A number of rail heritage items in Valley Heights are listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register:

  • The railway station and the locomotive depot[6] including the roundhouse[7]
  • The railway gatehouse in Greens Parade, Valley Heights[8]
  • Steam tram rolling stock held at the Valley Heights locomotive depot [9]
  • a cattle van, a brake van, and two preserved steam engines

Bus

Blue Mountains Transit[10]
(formerly Pearce Omnibus and later Blue Mountains Bus Company) headquarters and depot are located in Valley Heights.

Tourist attractions

Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum
is the home of the oldest remaining roundhouse in New South Wales, located 500 m from the eastern Springwood town boundary.

References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Valley Heights (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 24 April 2018. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Valley Heights (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  3. Department of Planning & Environment. H00220. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence
    .
  4. Department of Planning & Environment. H01276. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence
    .
  5. Department of Planning & Environment. H01977. Retrieved 18 February 2020. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence
    .
  6. Office of Environment & Heritage
    . Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  7. Office of Environment & Heritage
    . Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  8. ^ "Railway Gatehouse". Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  9. ^ "Valley Heights Steam Tram Rolling Stock". Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  10. ^ "BMBC | Travel Tips, Ideas & Everything in Between -".
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