between Wisemans Ferry and Mount Manning WISEMANS FERRY NSW 2775
Hawkesbury
Metropolitan
Complex / Group
Transport - Land
Road
Subject: The Great North Road, over 240km long, was constructed between 1826 and 1834, and remains one of the major engineering feats of the convict era.
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright owner: Heritage Office
Date: 03/06/1984
Subject: The walls, up to 13m high, are made of interlocking stone blocks of varying shapes and sizes without mortar to hold them together. Some of the blocks weigh up to 660 kg.
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright owner: Heritage Office
Date: 03/06/1984
Subject: At the time of construction the engineering was at the cutting edge of road building technology, incorporating the latest ideas from Europe.
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright owner: National Parks and Wildlife Service
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: View of old bridge, with new deck, still in use at Ten Mile Hollow.
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright owner: National Parks and Wildlife Service
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: View of buttress detail. The Great North Road physically demonstrates the work patterns, skills and organisation of convict work gangs.
Photographer: Unknown
Copyright owner: National Parks and Wildlife Service
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: SHR Plan 2302
Photographer: Naomi Nelson
Copyright owner: Heritage Council of NSW
Date: 02/04/1999