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Stanwell Park was the name given to the farm established on the grant given to Matthew John Gibbons in 1824. He was given most of the area called Little Bulli which included present-day Stanwell Park and Coalcliff. The whole of Northern Illawarra went under the Aboriginal name Bulli. Bulli remains the name of an Illawarra suburb further south ...
Otford is situated in the Otford Valley, north of Undola Ridge, Stanwell Park and Stanwell Tops. To the east of the valley is the coastal ridge and small community of Bulgo, also the name of a hill in the area and the former name of Otford. To the west, on the plateau, is the township of Helensburgh.
Aerial photo from north west The Illawarra Coke Company (ICC) in Coalcliff. The electrified South Coast railway line passes through its site.. In 1796 William Clark and others trekking north to Port Jackson from the wrecked ship Sydney Cove noticed coal exposed at the cliffs there and made a fire from it, attracting rescuers, giving the area its name. [3]
The Stanwell Creek railway viaduct was the major bridge of the duplication and deviations works on the Illawarra Line 1910-20 between Waterfall and Scarborough. At Stanwell Park, the work kept the new double track line high up in the natural amphitheatre which in turn required a high level crossing of Stanwell Creek. [1]
The deviation avoided the Otford Tunnel and steep grades by tracing around the Stanwell Park amphitheatre at a higher level, and the present station was constructed. [4] The new line featured an eight span, 145-metre (476 ft) long, 42-metre (138 ft) high [ 5 ] curved viaduct over Stanwell Creek south of the station which required over three ...
With a population of 517 residents [1] Stanwell Tops is almost entirely residential. In 1996 Australian Bureau of Statistics data reported Stanwell Tops as having the fourth-highest proportion of males in the state at 59.4%, [2] however by 2011 Stanwell Tops had lost its outlier status with that percentage figure dropping to 51.8%. [3]
Sunrise at Bald Hill, NSW. Bald Hill is a hill on the Illawarra Range, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.With an elevation of approximately 180 metres (590 ft) AMSL, Bald Hill is one of the best known and most popular lookouts in the Illawarra region providing panoramic vistas across the Illawarra escarpment and over the Illawarra plain and the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean.
Stanwell Park Claystone is a geologic formation in the Sydney Basin in eastern Australia.Commonly seen in the Illawarra region, this stratum is up to 79 metres thick. Formed in the early Triassic, it is part of the Narrabeen Group of sedimentary rocks.This formation includes red, green and grey shale with quartz-lithic sandstone.