1 1 d d n i . ] 1 1].indd n i l h a g n u g [ [gungahlin 6 0 0 2 - 0 1 - T N NT-10-2006 M A AM 7 4 : 7 1 : 7 7:17:47 6 0 / 0 1 / 5 2 25/10/06

• • Gungahlin Grasslands Gungahlin (design) Brainstorm Studio • (research) Dowling Peter Dr

The publishers wish to acknowledge: to wish publishers The • • Federation Square Federation

• • Ginninderra Blacksmith’s Workshop Blacksmith’s Ginninderra

www.act.nationaltrust.org.au

02 6230 0533 6230 02

Civic Square ACT 2608 ACT Square Civic

PO Box 1144 Box PO

Contact: National Trust of Australia (ACT) Australia of Trust National Contact:

© Copyright 2007 ACT Government ACT 2007 Copyright ©

with the assistance of the ACT Government. ACT the of assistance the with

National Trust of Australia (ACT) Australia of Trust National

This tour has been developed by the the by developed been has tour This

A SELF-GUIDED TOUR SELF-GUIDED A

SOUTHERN GUNGAHLIN SOUTHERN

Hall Village Hall 11.

Gold Creek / Federation Square Square Federation / Creek Gold 10.

Old Ginninderra Village Ginninderra Old 9.

esadHmsed Homestead Deasland 8.

Ginninderra Blacksmith’s Workshop Blacksmith’s Ginninderra 7.

Percival Hill Percival 6.

GUNGAHLIN

Gungahlin Hill Gungahlin 5.

Girrawah Park Aboriginal Site Aboriginal Park Girrawah 4.

“The Valley” Ruins Valley” “The 3.

A heritage tour of tour heritage A

ughi rslns Grasslands Gungahlin 2.

1. 1. Crace Hill Hill Crace

GUNGAHLIN [1] GUNGAHLIN

LISTED PLACES IN IN PLACES LISTED

1. 3. CRACE ‘THE VALLEY’ HILL RUINS 4. GIRRAWAH PARK Best viewed from Randwick Located off Gungahlin Road north of the racecourse Drive, 600m east of ABORIGINAL and from the Barton Highway. Gundaroo Road junction. SITE A short walk across grass Crace Hill rises 622 metres lands leads to a protective Access is off Gamburra and is part of the Canberra fence around the perimeter Street. Look for the Nature Park. The hill has of the ruins. large goanna. a distinct geological form known as a cuesta, a-ridge ‘The Valley’ site At fi rst this place looks Although with a steep cliff face on comprises the ruined like any other urban one side and a gentle slope 2. walls of a fi ve-roomed recreational and play- Gungahlin is on the other. The formation GUNGAHLIN stone house, a rammed ground space apart from occurs by erosion on gently earth (pisé) room and the the large goanna that one of Canberra’s sloping sedimentary beds GRASSLANDS archaeological evidence stands quietly nearby. that have been upli ed. The of a slab dwelling. There But Girrawah is more Access off Gungahlin Drive. most recent urban steep face can be viewed is also archaeological than that. It is an from Randwick Road and evidence of two sheds archaeological site that development areas The extensive grassland the gentle slope from Barton and a pit toilet. A few has been preserved and area is part of the Canberra Highway. The top is formed remaining fence posts set aside from residential it has had a long Nature Park. Kangaroo of a resistant layer and the and exotic trees remain development and turned grass is the major grass European history cliff face is eroded back as in the former home into a suburban park and species in this area, and the underlying beds are paddock. It was playground. Before the while there are other exotic dating well before eaten away beneath it. originally the home of arrival of Europeans to grass species growing, Exposed on the crest of the Thomas Gribble who Australia, Aboriginal the establishment they are relatively hill are areas of lava rock emigrated from England groups who lived in this uncommon. As such the caused by volcanic activity. in 1857 and became a area located an outcrop of Canberra and grasslands are of important successful small land- of rock under the scientifi c signifi cance. a much longer owner in the Canberra eucalypt trees. The district, o en known outcrop was suitable to The topography is gentle Aboriginal history. for his adoption of new use for the manufacture of and there are trails to farming technologies. stone tools. They chipped follow. Aboriginal groups The slab dwelling was of large pieces of the rock, used this area before built in the 1860s followed manufactured fi ne stone European se lement and by the rammed earth implements from the le evidence in their use of room between 1874–8 pieces. Archaeologists surface stone outcrops to and the stone house in found this place while manufacture stone artefacts. 1887. The stone house surveying the area prior The grasslands are also was occupied until 1964. to the development of the important habitat areas for Gungahlin suburbs. The birds and the endangered place was preserved and legless lizard. later named Girrawah (goanna) by the local Ngunnawal people.

1 1 d d n i . ] 1 1].indd n i l h a g n u g [ [gungahlin 6 0 0 2 - 0 1 - T N NT-10-2006 M A AM 7 4 : 7 1 : 7 7:17:47 6 0 / 0 1 / 5 2 25/10/06

• • Gungahlin Grasslands Gungahlin (design) Brainstorm Studio • (research) Dowling Peter Dr

The publishers wish to acknowledge: to wish publishers The • • Federation Square Federation

• • Ginninderra Blacksmith’s Workshop Blacksmith’s Ginninderra

www.act.nationaltrust.org.au

02 6230 0533 6230 02

Civic Square ACT 2608 ACT Square Civic

PO Box 1144 Box PO

Contact: National Trust of Australia (ACT) Australia of Trust National Contact:

© Copyright 2007 ACT Government ACT 2007 Copyright ©

with the assistance of the ACT Government. ACT the of assistance the with

National Trust of Australia (ACT) Australia of Trust National

This tour has been developed by the the by developed been has tour This

A SELF-GUIDED TOUR SELF-GUIDED A

SOUTHERN GUNGAHLIN SOUTHERN

Hall Village Hall 11.

Gold Creek / Federation Square Square Federation / Creek Gold 10.

Old Ginninderra Village Ginninderra Old 9.

esadHmsed Homestead Deasland 8.

Ginninderra Blacksmith’s Workshop Blacksmith’s Ginninderra 7.

Percival Hill Percival 6.

GUNGAHLIN

Gungahlin Hill Gungahlin 5.

Girrawah Park Aboriginal Site Aboriginal Park Girrawah 4.

“The Valley” Ruins Valley” “The 3.

A heritage tour of tour heritage A

ughi rslns Grasslands Gungahlin 2.

Crace Hill Hill Crace 1.

GUNGAHLIN [1] GUNGAHLIN

LISTED PLACES IN IN PLACES LISTED

1. 3. CRACE ‘THE VALLEY’ HILL RUINS 4. GIRRAWAH PARK Best viewed from Randwick Located off Gungahlin Road north of the racecourse Drive, 600m east of ABORIGINAL and from the Barton Highway. Gundaroo Road junction. SITE A short walk across grass Crace Hill rises 622 metres lands leads to a protective Access is off Gamburra and is part of the Canberra fence around the perimeter Street. Look for the Nature Park. The hill has of the ruins. large goanna. a distinct geological form known as a cuesta, a-ridge ‘The Valley’ site At fi rst this place looks Although with a steep cliff face on comprises the ruined like any other urban one side and a gentle slope 2. walls of a fi ve-roomed recreational and play- Gungahlin is on the other. The formation GUNGAHLIN stone house, a rammed ground space apart from occurs by erosion on gently earth (pisé) room and the the large goanna that one of Canberra’s sloping sedimentary beds GRASSLANDS archaeological evidence stands quietly nearby. that have been upli ed. The of a slab dwelling. There But Girrawah is more Access off Gungahlin Drive. most recent urban steep face can be viewed is also archaeological than that. It is an from Randwick Road and evidence of two sheds archaeological site that development areas The extensive grassland the gentle slope from Barton and a pit toilet. A few has been preserved and area is part of the Canberra Highway. The top is formed remaining fence posts set aside from residential it has had a long Nature Park. Kangaroo of a resistant layer and the and exotic trees remain development and turned grass is the major grass European history cliff face is eroded back as in the former home into a suburban park and species in this area, and the underlying beds are paddock. It was playground. Before the while there are other exotic dating well before eaten away beneath it. originally the home of arrival of Europeans to grass species growing, Exposed on the crest of the Thomas Gribble who Australia, Aboriginal the establishment they are relatively hill are areas of lava rock emigrated from England groups who lived in this uncommon. As such the caused by volcanic activity. in 1857 and became a area located an outcrop of Canberra and grasslands are of important successful small land- of rock under the scientifi c signifi cance. a much longer owner in the Canberra eucalypt trees. The district, o en known outcrop was suitable to The topography is gentle Aboriginal history. for his adoption of new use for the manufacture of and there are trails to farming technologies. stone tools. They chipped follow. Aboriginal groups The slab dwelling was of large pieces of the rock, used this area before built in the 1860s followed manufactured fi ne stone European se lement and by the rammed earth implements from the le evidence in their use of room between 1874–8 pieces. Archaeologists surface stone outcrops to and the stone house in found this place while manufacture stone artefacts. 1887. The stone house surveying the area prior The grasslands are also was occupied until 1964. to the development of the important habitat areas for Gungahlin suburbs. The birds and the endangered place was preserved and legless lizard. later named Girrawah (goanna) by the local Ngunnawal people. 7. GINNINDERRA BLACKSMITH’S WORKSHOP Located on the east side of the Barton Highway. Turn off highway 300 metres south of the Gold Creek Road junction at Deasland entrance then turn right.

The site is fenced but easily observed. The small building is the only known village blacksmith’s workshop remaining in the Australian Capital Territory. The workshop was opened in 1859 and a succession of 5. smithies served the rural GUNGAHLIN Ginninderra community until 1949. The workshop HILL was an important part of village life in the early Access is from the agricultural phase of Barton Highway south Canberra’s history. As of the Gundaroo Road well as a working area 3 junction. Look for the the workshop was also a 11 ‘Gungahlin Hill’ sign 10 common gathering place on north side of road. 9 for the village people, 2 especially in winter when Gungahlin Hill is 652 8 the forge was the warmest metres above sea level 7 place in the district. and overlooks the Aboriginal people would 6 Gungahlin region. An also congregate at the easy thirty minute walk, workshop. Archaeological following bush paths evidence has revealed around the hill can be that they would make extended if you want traditional tools from to wander through the broken glass at the 5 timbered areas. The main workshop. tree species are the red gum and yellow box on the lower slopes and scribbly gum and bri le gum on the southern 9 & 10. 8. fl anks. The timbered areas OLD are ideal for observing DEASLAND GINNINDERRA birds such as crimson HOMESTEAD and eastern rosellas, VILLAGE kookaburras, tree martins Off Barton Highway. Best and the smaller striated viewed from Ginninderra (GOLD CREEK VILLAGE / pardalotes and thornbills. Blacksmith’s Workshop. FEDERATION SQUARE) Entry from corner of Deasland is private Barton Highway and property so access is Gold Creek Road. restricted. The homestead is set amongst the conifers Old Ginninderra Village 6. Gold Creek Village / and its grounds are now Gold Creek Village and Federation Square 1 PERCIVAL part of a golf course. The Federation Square are HILL homestead was built in located on the site of old Gold Creek Village is now 1890 by George Harcourt Ginninderra Village. The the new name of this area Access off Gundaroo Road. who was a prominent village was established in and once again it is a fi gure in the early 1826 as a private village thriving place, but now as Percival Hill rises to 662 history of Ginninderra and by 1850 it had a tourist destination. There metres above sea level and was storekeeper developed into a thriving, are many art and cra and if you are keen to and postmaster in the prosperous centre. It specialty shops refl ecting climb, it will give you a late nineteenth century included homesteads, the period of the original view of the Gungahlin (1862-82). The hill behind police station, post offi ce village, hotels, restaurants area. Archaeological the homestead bears his and a school, and was and more modern art and evidence in the form of name today. Deasland the hub for much of the cra shops. Cockington grinding grooves in the represents a second phase district’s social and Green (a model English surface rock have revealed of rural life in the area, sporting activity. village), Dinosaur Museum, that Percival Hill was when landowners had and a Tudor style English pub make the village an used by Aboriginal groups become prosperous and The village declined 11. to manufacture and began to construct more when the New South a raction for tourists. maintain sharp edges comfortable permanent Wales Government selected HALL to their stone axes. Axe residences. It was close to the site of Hall three Federation Square on the VILLAGE grinding requires water the hub of Ginninderra kilometres away for a other side of O’Hanlon as a lubricant and grinding Village, and together with formally designed village. Place, is a more recent area Access from the grooves are usually found the Blacksmith’s workshop Li le has survived of the of the complex. It has many Barton Highway. near a readily accessible marks the south-eastern original village centre and shops that cater for the water source. But in this end of the Village. its surrounds, apart from tourists, a hotel, a large The village of Hall case, the nearest source the schoolhouse (1883) walk-in bird aviary with was established in 1882 at Ginninderra Creek at which is by the main over 100 species of parrots and the fi rst sale of the base of the hill is a entrance and now houses and fi nches, and outdoor allotments occurred in ten minute walk. The tool- arts and cra shops, and and indoor eating areas that 1886. The village was makers were apparently the small Roman Catholic are popular with families. established to provide a more concerned with the Church (1872) which now residential and commercial quality of the grinding functions as an Aboriginal centre for the surrounding medium on the hill and cra shop. Other parts of district to replace the older opted to carry water the original village are the se lement of Ginninderra. from the creek to the Deasland homestead and The rural landscape of the grinding surface. Dairy (1890), the police village provides a sharp station and residence (1905) contrast to the more west of Gold Creek road, modern suburbs of and the remains of the Gungahlin. Ginninderra blacksmith’s workshop.

NNT-10-2006T-10-2006 [gungahlin[gungahlin 1].indd1].indd 2 225/10/065/10/06 7:17:577:17:57 AMAM 7. GINNINDERRA BLACKSMITH’S WORKSHOP Located on the east side of the Barton Highway. Turn off highway 300 metres south of the Gold Creek Road junction at Deasland entrance then turn right.

The site is fenced but easily observed. The small building is the only known village blacksmith’s workshop remaining in the Australian Capital Territory. The workshop was opened in 1859 and a succession of 5. smithies served the rural GUNGAHLIN Ginninderra community until 1949. The workshop HILL was an important part of village life in the early Access is from the agricultural phase of Barton Highway south Canberra’s history. As of the Gundaroo Road well as a working area 3 junction. Look for the the workshop was also a 11 ‘Gungahlin Hill’ sign 10 common gathering place on north side of road. 9 for the village people, 2 especially in winter when Gungahlin Hill is 652 8 the forge was the warmest metres above sea level 7 place in the district. and overlooks the Aboriginal people would 6 Gungahlin region. An also congregate at the easy thirty minute walk, workshop. Archaeological following bush paths evidence has revealed around the hill can be that they would make extended if you want traditional tools from to wander through the broken glass at the 5 timbered areas. The main workshop. tree species are the red gum and yellow box on the lower slopes and scribbly gum and bri le gum on the southern 9 & 10. 8. fl anks. The timbered areas OLD are ideal for observing DEASLAND GINNINDERRA birds such as crimson HOMESTEAD and eastern rosellas, VILLAGE kookaburras, tree martins Off Barton Highway. Best and the smaller striated viewed from Ginninderra (GOLD CREEK VILLAGE / pardalotes and thornbills. Blacksmith’s Workshop. FEDERATION SQUARE) Entry from corner of Deasland is private Barton Highway and property so access is Gold Creek Road. restricted. The homestead is set amongst the conifers Old Ginninderra Village 6. Gold Creek Village / and its grounds are now Gold Creek Village and Federation Square 1 PERCIVAL part of a golf course. The Federation Square are HILL homestead was built in located on the site of old Gold Creek Village is now 1890 by George Harcourt Ginninderra Village. The the new name of this area Access off Gundaroo Road. who was a prominent village was established in and once again it is a fi gure in the early 1826 as a private village thriving place, but now as Percival Hill rises to 662 history of Ginninderra and by 1850 it had a tourist destination. There metres above sea level and was storekeeper developed into a thriving, are many art and cra and if you are keen to and postmaster in the prosperous centre. It specialty shops refl ecting climb, it will give you a late nineteenth century included homesteads, the period of the original view of the Gungahlin (1862-82). The hill behind police station, post offi ce village, hotels, restaurants area. Archaeological the homestead bears his and a school, and was and more modern art and evidence in the form of name today. Deasland the hub for much of the cra shops. Cockington grinding grooves in the represents a second phase district’s social and Green (a model English surface rock have revealed of rural life in the area, sporting activity. village), Dinosaur Museum, that Percival Hill was when landowners had and a Tudor style English pub make the village an used by Aboriginal groups become prosperous and The village declined 11. to manufacture and began to construct more when the New South a raction for tourists. maintain sharp edges comfortable permanent Wales Government selected HALL to their stone axes. Axe residences. It was close to the site of Hall three Federation Square on the VILLAGE grinding requires water the hub of Ginninderra kilometres away for a other side of O’Hanlon as a lubricant and grinding Village, and together with formally designed village. Place, is a more recent area Access from the grooves are usually found the Blacksmith’s workshop Li le has survived of the of the complex. It has many Barton Highway. near a readily accessible marks the south-eastern original village centre and shops that cater for the water source. But in this end of the Village. its surrounds, apart from tourists, a hotel, a large The village of Hall case, the nearest source the schoolhouse (1883) walk-in bird aviary with was established in 1882 at Ginninderra Creek at which is by the main over 100 species of parrots and the fi rst sale of the base of the hill is a entrance and now houses and fi nches, and outdoor allotments occurred in ten minute walk. The tool- arts and cra shops, and and indoor eating areas that 1886. The village was makers were apparently the small Roman Catholic are popular with families. established to provide a more concerned with the Church (1872) which now residential and commercial quality of the grinding functions as an Aboriginal centre for the surrounding medium on the hill and cra shop. Other parts of district to replace the older opted to carry water the original village are the se lement of Ginninderra. from the creek to the Deasland homestead and The rural landscape of the grinding surface. Dairy (1890), the police village provides a sharp station and residence (1905) contrast to the more west of Gold Creek road, modern suburbs of and the remains of the Gungahlin. Ginninderra blacksmith’s workshop.

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