Stonehenge, New South Wales
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Stonehenge is a locality on the Northern Tablelands of New England in New South Wales, Australia. The rural settlement is located about 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Glen Innes, on the New England Highway. It is about 3,500 feet (1,067 m) above sea level and exists mainly as a flat plateau strewn with granite boulders, some over 5m high. Of note is a roughly spherical monolith about 2.5 metres in diameter known as the Balancing Rock.
Stonehenge station was taken up by Thomas Hewitt in 1838 making him the first settler in the Glen Innes district. The locality was named because of the local granite outcrops that were reminiscent of Stonehenge, England.
The Main North railway line (now closed) crosses the New England Highway at Stonehenge, which also had a railway station which opened in 1884 and closed about 1974.
Stonehenge has a Recreation Reserve of about 80 acres which includes a sports ground, shelter shed and toilets.
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