The Hills has an ideal world heritage listing opportunity and it’s sitting right at Castle Hill.
Castle Hill State Liberal MP Michael Richardson said Hills Shire Council and the State Government could capitalise on the world heritage listing of parts of the Great North Rd by building an interpretation centre at Heritage Park.
“It may never be known as World Heritage Park but it should be linked to the world heritage treasures it helped to spawn,” Mr Richardson said.
“The convict-built Great North Rd, which opened up the Hunter Valley to settlement, is one of the truly great engineering masterpieces of the 19th century in Australia and the old convict farm at Castle Hill, now Heritage Park, is part of the Convict Trail.
“World Heritage listing will draw people from all over the world to see the road - in particular those magnificent buttressed stone walls north of the Hawkesbury.
“We should be encouraging visitors to start their journey of discovery at Heritage Park and to learn about the Government Farm that existed there until 1816, as well as the Castle Hill Uprising of 1804, of course.”
Mr Richardson said Heritage Park was a lovely spot where people met once a year to commemorate the uprising but there was little else to draw visitors to it.
“An interpretation centre which tells people about the Convict Trail as well as about the Government Farm would change all that - especially if the foundations of the barracks were exposed and a skeletal structure erected to show people how big the building was,” he said.
Source: whereilive
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