Gundaroo, New South Wales
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Gundaroo () is a small village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia and in Yass Valley Shire. It is situated to the west of the Yass River, about 9 kilometres northwest of Sutton, about 10 km west of the Lake George range. It has a population of about 100.
The explorers Charles Throsby and Joseph Wild travelled through the Yass River valley in 1820. Governor Lachlan Macquarie granted the first white settler, Peter Cooney, 30 acres in 1825. Settlement proceeded fairly quickly and there were about 400 residents in the 1840s. The first non-residential building in Gundaroo was the Harrow Inn, built in 1834. A post office was built in 1848 and an Anglican church, St Lukes (now part of a pottery business), in 1849. The first school opened in 1850 and a Police Station in 1852. The Southern Tablelands of NSW, Gundaroo
Gundaroo has become something of a dormitory for Canberra and is a fairly trendy village for tourists from Canberra and further afield because of its well preserved early and mid 19th century heritage.
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