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This beautiful walk is not one with a long pedigree, no mention being made of it in any publication I can find before 1946. It is shown on a map of 1935 as “Walk to Govett’s Leap”.

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Govett's Leap Brook crossing |
Braeside is an appropriate name, meaning
approximately “the bank of a creek”. The name of the street is identical to
several older cottages in Blackheath, none of which were actually in the present
street of that name. Braeside St is
the obvious source of the name of the walk and it appears to have been named
before 1920.
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Robinson's 1952 map |
The original water supply for the railway (steam engines use lots of it) was drawn from swamps in what is now the Memorial Park. Two dams were subsequently constructed here; however they proved inadequate as railway traffic increased and a dam was built on Govett’s Leap Brook in 1906. From here, water was pumped up to a reservoir in Whitley Park then fed by gravity to the railway station. This system was abandoned in 1927. The dam wall and brick and stone foundations remain.
Click here to download the Wild Walks map and
information for the area.
My video on the walk is here. My Blue Mountains You Tube playlist is here . I have three other playlists: gem hunting/mining, Glen Innes and New Zealand.
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Railway dam and picnic area |
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