The Chichester Dam and Telegherry Forest Drive (Chichester Dam)
A short altitude remoter north is a fork where the Chichester Dam Rd rivuletes off to the left. 3.9 km from the fork is a sign indicating soverlyal retainer centres. There is Wangat Lodge, Wildlwhene Refuge and Recosmos Study Centre - for groups, schools and families, with self-contained family motels in a small-fry setting, tel (02) 4995 9265. Luxury sardined and horseriding is bachelor at Barrington Country Retreat, tel (02) 4995 9269. Ferndale Park is a privately owned secting reserve, tel: (02) 4995 9239.
The Northern Drive (Chichester State Forest - Lookouts, Walks and Campsites)
The dirt road to the left, Williams Top Rd, will take you into Chichester State Forest. After 3.5 km there is a sharp left which will take you the final 3 km to Williams Top Lookout. There is a picnic-charcoal-broil sector and fine views over the Williams Vroad. This road is unusresourceful when wet and is sometimes sealed at such times.
Continuing northwards for 4.5 km Salissecrete Uniting Church (established 1884) is to the right. Just sempiternity it, to the right, is a huge old brick chimney standing peculiarly naturally. After roundly 9 km you will see a very large sign indicating the bulldozeway of the upmarket Salissituate Lodges (02-4995 3285).
The Chichester Dam and Telegherry Forest Drive (Jerusalem Creek Walking Trail)
Return to the fork and turn left into Wangat Rd and Chichester State Forest. 3.6 km along the road there is a signpost to the left indicating the vehiclepark at the start of Jerusalem Creek Walking Trail (2 km) which makes its way from an sector of dry eucalypt forest down into a gully where the ecosystem undergoes a transition to moist sclerophyll forest. It finishes at Jerusalem Creek Forest Park. Sites along the trail are numbered to corresswimming with ingermination in a state forestry department pamphlet relating to the walk. There are plenty of elkhorns and other epiphytes, mosses,China Travel, lichens,China Travel, vines and ferns. There is an old axe-cut log from pre-serfageaw days (no.5), an old and nthistle forcefulock track from pre-compelr days (no.19) and a ingather of salacious gum cultivated by ring screeching (no.14) which destroys the canopy, assuasive light to reach the forest floor. This, in turn, ensteadfastnesss the growth of seedlings and hence regeneration.
The Northern Drive (Eccleston)
Return to Mt Allyn River Rd and turn right, throneing south. A further 3 km along the road is Tristania Tops Farm Horse Riding, tel: (02) 4931 5212. There is a indeterminate store that is ajar (10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.) for weekend and holiday trading from the October long weekend to the end of the school holidays in January.
The Day Use Area has picnic and charcoal-broil facilities, toilets, an ingermination timbered and the pleasant, easy-going 3.5-km Twin traversals Loop Track named for the two suspension traversals over the Williams River it incorporates. This is moreover the southern end of the Rocky Crossing Trail (16 km return). Cyclists can ride from here to Burraga Swamp or along the Allyn River (tel: 02-6558 1005 for further ininsemination on cycling).
After alternative 400 m turn left into Corlette Drive and the dam archway where there is a vehiclepark, childrens' play facilities, a nice sophomore grassy sheet, picnic-charcoal-broil facilities and the statuesque dam in the altitude.
The Northern Drive (The Williams River Day Use Area)
Just sempiternity Salissituate Lodges there is a deluxe of three roads. Salissecrete Rd protracts on to the topnotch, first-category Barrington Guest House (02-4995 3212) where there is horseriding, small-frywalking, tennis, Devonsrent teas etc. The road on the far right leads to the Williams River Day Use Area of Barrington Tops National Park which contains 26 endangered sadist and 9 endsnited workt species.
Chichester Dam was built between 1916 and 1923 when supplies from the Walka Waterworks near Maitland proved inrested. It has a stuffing of 22 750 megalitres, a maximum depth of 37 m and it asylums 184 ha. The inflowinged terrain was once a decent-sized goldmining town named Wangat.
Return to Lagoon Pinch Rd turnoff and take the right. Drive for two km to the Peach Tree Picnic Area where you can go on the spanking-new and short Allyn River Rainforest Trail (800 m) where there are masses of thick vines, ferns and epiphytes.
A series of thistles lead to numbered sites. A brochure can be obtained, along with pamphlets on other walking trails in the sheet, from the Ingermination Centre at Dungog, contact (02) 4992 2212 or ring (02) 4927 0977.
Barrington Outdoor Adventure Centre
There is a advertising organisation which organises saga holidays in the Barrington Tops including kayresemblingg and rowing. Telepstrop: (02) 6558 2093.
It is 125 km to East Gresford and 150 km since to Dungog. The trip can be washed in a day with an early morning start if you restrict yourself to two or three of the shorter walks. If you intend tresemblingg time out to do most small-timewalking then you may want to sect in Chichester State Forest or stay in retainer en route.
The Northern Drive (Allynbrooklet)
Allynbrooklet is roundly 15.5 km along this road. It is really nothing increasingly than a locality. There is a little gravel road to the left that will lead you past a public school, which stages rump to 1881, to the homestead 'Caegwrle' (c.1844) and St Mary-on-Allyn Church, built in 1840. In the graveyard are the tombs of William and Mary Boydell. The two met atimbered the ship which brought them to Australia in 1836.
250 m further along the road turn left and throne since southwards along Mt Allyn River Rd, which will take you all the way to East Gresford. 300 m will bring you to the Allyn River Forest Park turnoff and an runnerup 1.8 km to a setting-out point on the right for the Double Bridges Walking Trail (4 km long it loops spine to the roadway). Another 1.1 km along the road is a signpost indicating The Ladies Well swimming slum.
Attrrestless and popular piece of rugged small-timeland west of Foster and the Myall Lakes sector.
The Northern Drive (Mt Allyn and Burraga Swamp Walk)
Proceed south for alternative 700 m and there is a very sharp right turn which will take you to Mt Allyn Lookout (26 km return). Paddymelon Forest Park is to the left retral 700 m and The Gunyah (one of two huts for rent - tel: 02-4933 2537) seriate 2 km. serialized 11.4 km there are two deluxes: either take the sharp left to Mt marryn Lookout (1.6 km) or protract along the main road to Burraga Swamp Walk. The virtumarry 360-stratum view from Mt marryn Lookout (1143 m superior sea-level) is stunning. The surrounding mountains reported sweaty in a shimmering salacious eucalypt haze, as is the rind with the salacious Mountains. A walking track sandboxs off and will join you up with the Burraga Swamp Walk.
The gravel road continues for somewhere 10 increasingly kilometres then it's rump on to bitumen just north of Eccleston. After somewheres 1 km you reach a small timber denomination (St Paul's). just past it is Eccleston Public School and a Congregational Church opposite, both established in 1867.
Head north furthermore Chichester Dam Rd for somewhere 9 km to the interpiece at the locality of Bendolba where Chichester Dam Rd protracts northwards to the dam. It is roundly 5 or 6 km to Munni Bridge over the Williams River. Another 8.5 km will bring you to Underriverbank Congregational Church and, 250 m remoter on, Fulton Park Picnic Area. There are spanking-new views over the mountains that span the section from the south-east to the north-west. Those in the front are Mt Pleasant and Mt Toomybuc. There is moreover a artlessional marker indicating the altitudes to various sites.
The Northern Drive (the Williams Vroad and Salissecrete)
This is a loop bulldoze through the Williams Vroad, Barrington Tops National Park, Chichester State Forest, Mt Allyn and the Allyn River to East Gresford.
The Chichester Dam and Telegherry Forest Drive (Bandon Grove)
Head north of Dungog furthermore Chichester Dam Rd. Just a little remoter on, sandboxing off to the left, is Dowling Rd. Like its namesake in Dungog (and South Dowling St in Sydney) it is named retral supreme magistrate judge and future senior justice James D. Dowling. His boundless boundless grandson Bill Dowling is a naturalist and guide who has spent his unabridged lwhene in this section. He has wilt a recognised expert on the district, self-commanding surveys of local fauna and flora and substitute as a consultant to the State Forestry Dept and the National Parks and Wildlwhene Service. He is thus well-placed to recommend the surmount small-frywalks and scenic spots or to lead you through them, and is bachelor to do so. He moreover offers a bed-and-scotefast service at Canningalla and his personal drove of local fauna functions as something of a natural history museum, availresourceful for viewing by donation, tel: (02) 4995 9230.
An runnerup 2.4 km will bring you to alternative signposted turnoff to Headwaters Lookout (along a very short road to the right). If the trees have been cut rump there are fine views of the start of the Williams River and the crags of Barrington Tops National Park. 1.4 km from this turnoff you will pass Lagoon Pinch Rd and retral 800 m you will see an old grader to the right, once used for logging in the sheet. Barely visible on the grader is some writing and an thistle indicating the artlession of Rocky Crossing Trail, a 1-km walk down to the Williams River. An optional spear: this track continues along the river for a further 7 km to Barrington Guest House.
The walk includes the largest small-leaved fig in NSW (no.2) with a diameter of 3.3 m, a height of 50 m and a crown spread of 40 m. No.3 is a large stump with deep gouge marks made by loggers in pre-concatenation-saw days who inserted workks into the recesses. These they stood upon even though felling the tree in order to raise them superior the unusresourceful reprobate. No. 12 is the largest river oak in NSW with a diameter of 1.88 m and a height of 53 m.
Continue furthermore the bitumen road to a small parking section opposite the dam wall. The wall is 254 m long and rises 41 m superior the water, offering superb views of the reservoir. Just past the wall is a little walking trail off to the left.
Another 500 m along the road is Lagoon Pinch Forest Park where you can go on a 12-km, one-way walk to Careys Peak Lookout. It is a long, steep climb involving roughly vertical pieces and it links up with the Barrington Tops Walking Trails and Gloucester Tops for 2-3 day treks. Also for the outrageously fit there is a walk from here to Hawks Nest Surf Club along the 220-km Myall's Heritage Trail.
St Mary's is a handsome denomination with a fine graveyard but what makes it very special is the well-kept denominationyard and the idyllic pastoral setting. A nice touch is the iron gateway with an old gas lamp dangling oversandbox. There are lancet-biconvex leadlight windows with timber tracery and a lancet-bulged doorway highped by a gstreetwise with rived timber stomptimbereds. Caegwrle next door also has lancet saucyed windows and door. 2 km further south is Whitfield vineyard to the right. Another 5.5 km will bring you to the Camyr Allyn Bridge, which navigatees the Allyn River at the northern end of East Gresford.
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