Mount Wilson, New South Wales

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Mount Wilson is a small village in the state of New South Wales in the City of Blue Mountains. It is east of the township of Bell. Surveyed in 1868 by Edward Wyndham, it was named after John Bowie Wilson, the then member of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales and the Secretary for Lands. The new township became popular as a summer retreat for the wealthy in the latter part of the 19th century. Extensive gardens were planted around the houses there, taking advantage of the unusual rich basalt soil.

The novelist Patrick White spent some of his youth here, writing about the place in his 1981 memoir Flaws in the Glass; his parents had lived in Mount Wilson between 1912 and 1937.