Berkshire Park – Homestead Site

The property is unique in the northern sector of Penrith LGA for its historic associations with a settler family of note and colonial era rural estate; the property demonstrating a phase in the development of the region with the establishment of large pastoral and agricultural estates. The property retains a landscape of undulating pasture, remnant garden plantings and open forest which demonstrates an European land management practice of note in this part of Penrith LGA. image
Name of Item Berkshire Park Homestead Site
Type of Item Archaeological-Terrestrial
Group/Collection Farming and Grazing
Category Homestead Complex
Primary Address 844-848 Richmond Road BERKSHIRE PARK NSW 2765
County
Local Govt. Area Penrith
Suburb Berkshire Park
Construction Years c1819
Current Use Destroyed by Fire in 1944
Former Use Farming Homestead
Heritage Listing Local Govt
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