The following details provide an overview of each of these brochures. * Scenic Drives - 1: Buccan Buccans Circuit * Barrington Tops National Park - with detailed map * Copeland Tops State Conservation Area: Hidden Treasure Trail * Copeland Tops State Conservation Area: Basin Loop Trail * Copeland Tops State Conservation Area: Mountain Maid Gold Mine Tour They have a remarkably rich and comprehensive collection of simple brochures (mostly folded A4 sheets) which provide details for: To truly enjoy the rich variety of activities in Gloucester and surrounds you should start at the Gloucester Visitor Centre. Dawson observed that the 'romantic scenery' of the river valley reminded him of the undulating countryside of Gloucestershire and so he named the town after Gloucester. The town was named after an Australian Agricultural Company outstation which had been named Gloucester by the manager, Robert Dawson. Gloucester is located 96 metres above sea-level and 265 km north-east of Sydney via the Pacific Highway and Bucketts Way. It is altogether a beautiful spot in the wilderness.' Today Gloucester is the principal town of a cattle-raising, dairying and mixed farming district. Along the base of these mountains, the River Gloucester wends its way to the northward, leaving a large extent of alluvial land on its right bank, which the Company has cleared and brought into cultivation the site of the buildings that form the station, including a house of accommodation for travellers, being on a rising ground to the eastward of the alluvial flats. A range of picturesque mountains, called by the aborigines, the Buccans, of about 1200 feet in height, bounds the horizon to the westward. As early as 1851 the famous colonial clergyman John Dunmore Lang observed that 'Gloucester is one of the best sites for an inland town, I have ever seen in the colony. It is a town located in a valley of surpassing loveliness.

Gloucester, known as the gateway to the Barrington Tops, is a charming country town nestled in a valley under a range of hills known as The Bucketts. The route covers: Sicklerville, Avandale, Williamstown, Turnersville, Lakeland, Deptford, Blackwood, Runnemede, Bellmawr, Mt.Rural service town nestled under the Bucketts and known as the Gateway to Barrington Tops. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONīus #400 comes down the Black Horse Pike and stops in front of the library.

You will be put onto the Black Horse Pike heading south just a few miles above the intersection described in IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS. Leave route 42 at the exit for route 168 South/ Blenheim/ Blackwood. If preferred, follow route 295 and use it to enter route 42 (North-South Freeway), heading south. FROM UPPER CAMDEN COUNTY, ROUTE 295 AND/OR 42 When you get to the intersection described above in IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS go through the intersection and then make a left Into the library parking lot as indicated by the blue sign. You will be heading south, and it will take about 10-15 minutes to reach the immediate Blackwood area. Follow Nicholson Road to the Black Horse Pike (Route 168) and make a left onto the Black Horse Pike. WHITE HORSE PIKEįrom the White Horse Pike (Route 30) turn into Nicholson Rd. Make a right onto the Pike at the Mobil Station, and left into the library lot at the blue sign. (You will see a Heritage store and a Citgo station at this intersection, opposite where you should turn.) After about 1.5 miles, you will come to the Black Horse Pike at the intersection described under IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS. (Sign says “To Runnemede and Philadelphia.”) Continue to Good Intent Road (Route 534), and make a right onto it. Take Route 41(Hurfville Road) heading North. Watch for the blue sign showing you the International library symbol, there is a big clock near the driveway of the library parking lot. If you are coming up on the Black Horse Pike from the Camden County College area, you will pass Meadows diner and Chew’s Florist shop on your right hand side the library will be right past Chew’s Florist.

Landmarks on the south side of the intersection are a Mobil Gas Station and an old gray stone building. Landmarks just north of the intersection are a strip of brick stores and a cemetery. The Library is located near the intersection of Church St and Blackwood-Clementon Rd. View Camden County Library System, NJ in a larger map IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS:

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