Valley Heights, New South Wales

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Valley Heights is a small suburb, or township of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. It is approximately 86 km from Sydney and is located east of the suburb of Springwood. Valley Heights developed its own piece of the ridgeline that has been the main route west from Sydney since colonial history, and has some strong evidence of a rich pre-colonial inhabitance. At an Altitude of 350 to 400 meters above sea level, the climate has been considered very conducive to a huge range of plants. The native ecological communities are fairly typical of other Hawkesbury sandstone with shale transition forests, yet exhibit the local specificness we have come to expect in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Current developement is restricted by council reserves and National Park

Valley Heights has a railway station, rail museum and the historic Gatekeepers cottage where the railway guard lived in the steam era. The Preparatory Campus of the Blue Mountains Grammar School was built in Valley Heights in 2003.


Valley Heights Integrative Development Proposal

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Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum