Dive into the Berrima’s past with a new guided walking tour of Australia’s ‘favourite Georgian town’

Dive into the Berrima’s past with a new guided walking tour of Australia’s ‘favourite Georgian town’
Edited by Travel Weekly


    Visitors to the Southern Highlands heritage town of Berrima (c1831), two hours south of Sydney, can now immerse themselves in Australia’s colonial history with a spoken word guided walking tour.

    Berrima Walking Tours launches on 20 January, offering an easy paced hour-long walking tour filled with tales of early settlers, inn keepers, convicts and the women that made history in Australia’s favourite Georgian town.

    Led by local Berrima resident, Lynn Watson, guests get firsthand insight into how this significant historical village, and the best living example of a Georgian village in Australia, came about.

    Lynn was on the on the committee of the successful Battle for Berrima to stop a coal mine and recently chaired The Charlotte Project to install a bronze statue of Charlotte Atkinson (1796-1867) Australia’s first children’s author, in Berrima’s Marketplace Park.

    Berrima is a perfectly preserved Georgian village, one of only three still standing in Australia and filled with stories to be told,” Watson, said.

    “Few know that Augustus Pugin designed the Houses of Parliament in London and he also designed the heritage listed St Francis Xavier church in Berrima or that the Berrima Gaol housed German interns on day release during the first World War.”

    Berrima Walking Tours offers small group public tours every Saturday and Sunday at 10.00am and bespoke private tours for groups of six or more upon request.

    Join a Berrima Walking Tour and discover the untold stories of historic Berrima, winner of the #1 Small Tourism Town of Australia in 2021.

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