Travellers on the Great North Road

The line of road was in use long before the Great North Road had reached completion. Early travellers would have walked or ridden past gangs of convicts toiling on the moving rocks, building retaining walls, grubbing out trees and burning them and even building bridges.

It is possible to present some accounts from early travellers about what it was like to travel on the road and what they saw on the way to their destinations. The list which follows gives the titles of sections to which you will be taken from the menu or by links to the descriptions set down.

Mitchell travels the Devil's Backbone from Ten Mile Hollow to Hungry Flat. * John Dunmore Lang's Travels - a. To Wiseman's Ferry b. On the Great North Road from Wiseman's to Wollombi * Mitchell - Description of a journey from Parramatta to Hawkesbury a. North from the Hawkesbury * Mitchell - Warrawalong and Hungry Flat to Wollombi * Baron von Hugel travels the GNR