Ben Halls cave near Glenfell done by DRONE nsw
Ben Hall, one of the most revered bushrangers in Australia’s history, also resided at Grenfell, near what is now the Weddin Mountains National Park. In 1862, eight bushrangers including Ben Hall and Frank Gardiner carried out what was then the greatest robbery in Australian history when they held up the gold coach outside Eugowra. They managed to escape with £3,700 in cash and 2,719 ounces of gold, the equivalent to over $1 million dollars. The proceeds were never recovered and local legend has it that the booty is still stowed somewhere in the Weddin Mountains.
Weddin Mountains National Park - Grenfell NSW
Ben Hall's Cave, reputed to be Ben’s hideout cave has been preserved by the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Situated on the western side of the mountain the cave is a sprightly 30 minute walk with a great view of the surrounding farmland. The Weddin’s have three marked walking tracks. The walk up to Ben Hall’s Cave, the magnificent Eualdrie and Peregrine Lookouts and the Weddin Gap walking track.
The Weddin mountains conserve a range of wildlife that were once much more widespread. Home to emu, grey kangaroo, red-necked wallaby, along with a number of rare species of peregrine falcons, turquoise and superb parrots and the regent honeyeater. The name Weddin is derived from the Wiradjuri word of Weedin, which means a place to sit, stay or remain, relating to the mountains status as a place where youths underwent a period of enforced ceremonial isolation during the course of their initiation.
Weddin Mountains National Park is just 18km south-west of Grenfell. This pristine area is a great place for bushwalking, bird watching, camping or picnicking. Rising 400m above surrounding farmland, the name Weddin is derived from the Aboriginal word meaning waiting place.
Rare fauna such as the spectacular Peregrine Falcon and Turquoise Parrot along with the kangaroos, emus, and echidnas share this mountain range. The wildflowers bloom during spring and summer and you will quickly see why the original inhabitants, the Wiradjuri Aboriginal tribe had a strong ceremonial and spiritual association with the area.
NSW National Parks and Wildlife ServiceTwo marked walking tracks provide access to the highlights of the park. The first which takes one and a half hours begins at the Holy Camp rest area and leads to the lookout below Euraldrie Trig Point. The other visits Ben Hall's Cave. The rest area and Ben Hall's Cave Campground are serviced with barbeques, parking and toilet facilities.
You can see more about the Park at the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service website.
Weddin Mountains National Park Bicycle Touring, bushwalking.wmv
Cycle from Young NSW to Weddin MTS National Park in very strong head wind,
bush walk in the rain then cycle back in floods.
Weddin Grenfell fire 2006
Fire has burnt out more than 500 hectares of national park and private land on the eastern side of the Weddin Mountain National Park, near Grenfell in central-western NSW.
Ben Hall Bushranger Cave Weddin Mountains NSW
A short view of one of the Caves reputedly frequented by Ben Hall and other gang members in the Weddin Mtns near Grenfell NSW. I believe this is doubtful though!
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Meeting a descendant of The Ben Hall Gang in The Railway Hotel in Grenfell was a great stroke of luck. There was a lot of work going on, on the line, to meet new government regulations.
Also being charged by a wild bull in the Weddin Mountains National Park!
Patricia Cook - The Weddin Mountains Lament
The Bold Bushrangers
— Volume Two —
Songs of Wild Colonial Days
Lionel Long is now firmly established as a recording and television artist, and night-club entertainer. He is generally regarded as Australia's top folk singer and balladist, and his work is rapidly drawing attention outside this country.
When Ken Cook first submitted audition tapes of twelve of these songs for Lionel to hear, Lionel was so enthusiastic about them that, in addition to assisting in their musical arrangements, he suggested that the series should be extended to twenty-four. This was done and the collection in this album is the result.
Unlike his earlier records, in which he was accompanied either by an orchestra or a sextette with vocal group, Lionel is heard in this new album in what may be called a straight presentation, thus achieving the more authentic folk song style. On some of the tracks his own guitar is his only accompaniment, while on others the addition of Don Andrews on guitar and Dave Guard on banjo still retain the directness and simplicity of true folk music.
LIONEL LONG
with
PATRICIA COOK
Dave Guard — Don Andrews
This collection of bushranging ballads came into being when the Australian novelist, Kenneth Cook, was asked by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to give a series of talks on Bushranging. To enliven the talks, Cook decided to include songs of those days. However, considerable searching for such songs produced the conclusion that there were not many extant that were suitable. Still determined to use bush-ranging songs of the A.B.C. programmes, Cook decided to write them. He selected as the basis for his melodies Irish. English and American folk songs appropriate to the time, and he wrote the lyrics in the style used by the balladists who have recorded Australian folk history. His wife, Patricia, sang the songs for the A.B.C., and the flood of letters that resulted was so great that he decided to approach a recording company. This Columbia album is the outcome.
SIDE ONE
The Weddin Mountains Lament: There was a time when it was the ambition of every youth in the Weddin Mountains to become a bushranger. At one stage it was suggested that there were more bushrangers than settlers in the district: and the Police were certainly often outnumbered. Came the time however, when the police, better armed and mounted than of yore, began to take over the mountains. The bushrangers were shot, hanged, imprisoned or forced to take up more law abiding pursuits, usually in distant parts of the country. This song envisages the plight of a young girl in the Weddin Mountains whose chances of love have been impeded by the success of the police.
Ben Halls Cave Campground - Weddin NP
Fall asleep to the calming sounds of the little brook ruuning through Ben Halls Cave Campground in the Weddin NP just outside of Grenfell NSW
Baz's hobbies - 9M - Australia Round Trip West to East - Escort Rock, Ben Hall Country part 2
New South Wales. Goldfields bushranger history you can almost touch! we trace his story to his last resting place near Forbes
[Wikipedia] Quandialla
Quandialla is a village in the Central West region of New South Wales Australia. The town is 412 kilometres (256 mi) west of Sydney. It is situated on the plains of The Bland country at the western edge of the Weddin Shire. The town of Grenfell is 46 kilometres (29 mi) to the north-east, Young is 65 kilometres (40 mi) to the south-east and West Wyalong is 57 kilometres (35 mi) to the west. The Weddin Mountains are within sight.
At the 2011 census, Quandialla and the surrounding area had a population of 349.
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