Moss Vale

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imageLooking up Argyle Street (Illawarra Highway) in Moss Vale.jpg
captionArgyle Street, which forms part of the Illawarra Highway
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parishBong Bong
postcode2577
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pop
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pop_footnotes
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mintemp8.2
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regionSouthern Highlands
stategovGoulburn
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near-nwBerrima
near-nBurradoo
near-neBong Bong
near-eCalwalla
near-wBelanglo
near-swSutton Forest
near-sWerai
near-seManchester Square
Yarrunga
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dist1142
location1Sydney
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location2Canberra
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Moss Vale is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. Moss Vale is the administrative centre of Wingecarribee Shire local government area. It is located 142 km south-west of Sydney and 159 km north-east of Canberra. The Illawarra Highway, which connects to Wollongong and the Illawarra coast via Macquarie Pass.

Moss Vale has several heritage buildings. In the centre of the main street is Leighton Gardens. Moss Vale has undergone recent (2019) gentrification. It has become a hub for independent and creative businesses, including design stores, cafes, and bars. The town has a commercial district and a golf course, including a large parkland, Cecil Hoskins Nature Reserve.

History

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The Moss Vale area was once occupied by the Gandangara people, though they had disappeared by the 1870s, partly due to the loss of their hunting land to European settlers. Governor Hunter sent a party led by ex-convict John Wilson to investigate the area in 1798. Various others explored the area up to 1815, including John Warby, George Caley, Hamilton Hume and John Oxley. Hume, Charles Throsby and Joseph Wild explored the area west of Sutton Forest in 1817 and in 1818, together with James Meehan, they explored the area between Moss Vale and Jervis Bay. Governor Macquarie granted Throsby 1000 acre, known as Throsby Park, at Bong Bong, on the northeastern outskirts of Moss Vale and put him in charge of building the Old Argyle Road from Sydney to Goulburn in 1819. This road was replaced in the 1830s by a more direct road via Berrima surveyed by Thomas Mitchell and most of the population of Bong Bong moved to Berrima.{{cite web | title =Moss Vale | publisher =John Fairfax | work=Walkabout | url =http://walkabout.com.au/locations/NSWMossVale.shtmlOpenDocument&ParkKey=N0208&Type=xo | access-date = 2007-05-26}} The heritage-listed property of Throsby Park house was built about 1834, six years after Throsby's suicide.{{cite web | title =Throsby Park Historic Site | publisher =Department of Environment and Climate Change | url =http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/parks.nsf/parkContent/N0208?OpenDocument&ParkKey=N0208&Type=xo | access-date =2007-05-25 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070830151047/http://nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/parks.nsf/parkContent/N0208?OpenDocument&ParkKey=N0208&Type=Xo | archive-date =30 August 2007 | url-status =dead

The area, which was considered to be part of Sutton Forest, remained rural until the coming of the railway. Subdivision part of Throsby Park for the town of Moss Vale, named after Jemmy Moss, a herdsman at Throsby Park, commenced in 1864, in anticipation of the opening of Sutton Forest railway station in 1867 at the intersection with Old Argyle Road. Governor Belmore rented Throsby Park from 1870 to 1872 to what is commonly believed to escape the summer heat of Sydney.{{cite web | first=Bede | last=Nairn | title =Belmore, fourth Earl of (1835–1913) | publisher =Australian National University | work=Australian Dictionary of Biography | url =https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/belmore-fourth-earl-of-2970 | access-date = 2007-05-25}} The railway and the Robertson Land Acts encouraged denser settlement by selectors in the Southern Highlands and led to the growth of Moss Vale as a town.{{cite web | title =Past & Present Moss Vale – History to 1860 | publisher =The Southern Highlands of New South Wales | url =http://www.highlandsnsw.com.au/past_present/mossvale_to1860.html | access-date = 2007-05-25}} In 1877 Sutton Forest railway station was renamed Moss Vale.

Climate

Moss Vale has an oceanic climate (Cfb) with warm to mild, rainy summers and cool sunny winters.

|location = Moss Vale AWS (2001–2022); 678 m AMSL; 34.53° S, 150.42° E |metric first = Yes |single line = Yes |Jan record high C = 40.9 |Feb record high C =41.2 |Mar record high C =37.0 |Apr record high C = 30.7 |May record high C = 23.4 |Jun record high C = 20.3 |Jul record high C = 21.4 |Aug record high C = 22.5 |Sep record high C = 30.4 |Oct record high C = 31.7 |Nov record high C = 37.9 |Dec record high C = 41.1 |year record high C = 41.2 |Jan high C = 26.2 |Feb high C = 24.4 |Mar high C = 21.8 |Apr high C = 19.2 |May high C = 15.5 |Jun high C = 12.5 |Jul high C = 11.9 |Aug high C = 13.4 |Sep high C = 16.7 |Oct high C = 19.5 |Nov high C = 22.0 |Dec high C = 24.1 |year high C = |Jan low C = 14.2 |Feb low C = 14.0 |Mar low C = 12.1 |Apr low C = 8.7 |May low C = 4.9 |Jun low C = 3.4 |Jul low C = 2.5 |Aug low C = 3.0 |Sep low C = 5.4 |Oct low C = 7.9 |Nov low C = 10.5 |Dec low C = 12.2 |year low C = 8.2 |Jan record low C = 4.1 |Feb record low C = 5.1 |Mar record low C =2.2 |Apr record low C = -2.5 |May record low C = -3.4 |Jun record low C = -6.3 |Jul record low C = -5.7 |Aug record low C = -5.4 |Sep record low C = -4.0 |Oct record low C = -2.0 |Nov record low C = -0.1 |Dec record low C = 2.0 |year record low C = |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm =65.0 |Feb precipitation mm = 101.4 |Mar precipitation mm = 96.6 |Apr precipitation mm = 55.9 |May precipitation mm = 48.3 |Jun precipitation mm = 76.5 |Jul precipitation mm = 63.7 |Aug precipitation mm = 54.7 |Sep precipitation mm = 41.9 |Oct precipitation mm = 52.8 |Nov precipitation mm = 72.3 |Dec precipitation mm = 60.1 |year precipitation mm = 784.5 |Jan precipitation days =13.2 |Feb precipitation days = 14.2 |Mar precipitation days =16.6 |Apr precipitation days = 15.7 |May precipitation days = 15.0 |Jun precipitation days =16.8 |Jul precipitation days = 13.8 |Aug precipitation days = 12.3 |Sep precipitation days = 11.5 |Oct precipitation days = 12.1 |Nov precipitation days = 14.2 |Dec precipitation days = 12.5 |year precipitation days =167.9 |humidity colour=green |Jan afthumidity = 51 |Feb afthumidity = 60 |Mar afthumidity = 59 |Apr afthumidity = 58 |May afthumidity = 60 |Jun afthumidity = 63 |Jul afthumidity = 61 |Aug afthumidity = 53 |Sep afthumidity = 51 |Oct afthumidity = 51 |Nov afthumidity = 56 |Dec afthumidity = 52 |year afthumidity =56 |source 1 = {{cite web | url = http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_068239_All.shtml | publisher = Bureau of Meteorology |title = Climate statistics for Moss Vale AWS|access-date = 29 November 2020}} |date= November 2020

Heritage listings

Moss Vale has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Population

At the 2021 census, 9,310 people were living in Moss Vale.

According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 8,579 people in Moss Vale. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 2.6% of the population. 78.2% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were England 4.4%, New Zealand 1.7% and China 1.5%. 87.2% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin at 1.3%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 25.8%, Anglican 24.9% and Catholic 22.1%.

|type= Australia |1921|1947 |1933|2359 |1947| |1954|2748 |1961|3040 |1966|3144 |1971|3235 |1976|3638 |1981|4415 |1986|5016 |1991|5960 |1996|6108 |2001|6601 |2006|6723 |2011|7305 |2016|7865 |2021|8774 |source=Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

Economy

Moss Vale holds a large part of the Southern Highlands Industry – as well as being a minor centre for agriculture, many light and medium industries are found in and around Moss Vale, including a James Hardie plant, a HarperCollins book distribution centre, and other manufacturing industries. Despite Moss Vale's prowess as an industrial centre, nearby Bowral is the commercial heart of the Southern Highlands.

Moss Vale is believed to have fertile soil and good precipitation. Agricultural rural holdings in the area specialise in dairy herds, mainly Holstein Frisian, and there is an assortment of beef studs and sheep properties.

Council and safety

The Wingecarribee Shire Council Chambers are located at 68 Elizabeth Street, Moss Vale. They can be found online at: Wingecarribee Shire Council Website Wingecarribee Shire Council Facebook Page

The Southern Highlands Police Station, part of the Hume Police District is the main NSW Police Force Station serving the Southern Highlands (Wingecarribee Shire). It is located at 67 Elizabeth Street. Moss Vale has a New South Wales Rural Fire Service Brigade which is located at 49 Berrima Road. There is also a Fire and Rescue NSW Station which is located at 64 Elizabeth Street, Moss Vale which is across the road from the Police Station and just up from the Wingecarribee Shire Council Chambers.

Transport

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Moss Vale station is the primary southern terminus of the Southern Highlands railway line. The line provides regular services from Moss Vale to southern Sydney, where a change of trains is generally required to access the city centre. Limited services continue south of Moss Vale to Goulburn and beyond (intercity, regional and interstate).

The station has 4 Melbourne XPT services a day (2 to Melbourne, 2 to Sydney), with other services towards Canberra (3 daily trips in each direction) and Griffith (2 return trips per week).

Moss Vale is the junction of the Unanderra – Moss Vale railway line to Wollongong, opened in 1932, but now only used by freight trains.

Television

Television is delivered from the Illawarra region with a transmitter based on Mount Gibraltar.

The Southern NSW Channels are:

ABC (with ABC News, ABC Family, ABC Entertains, ABC Kids)

SBS (with SBS Viceland, SBS Food, SBS WorldWatch, SBS World Movies, NITV)

7 Moss Vale (with 7two, 7mate, 7flix, 7Bravo, Racing.com, TVSN) – Seven Network owned and operated

WIN Television (with 9Go!, 9Gem, 9Life and Gold) – Nine Network Affiliate

10 Southern NSW (with 10 Drama, 10 Comedy, Nickelodeon, Sky News Regional, SBN and gecko) – Network 10 owned and operated

School

Schools in Moss Vale:

Churches

Churches in Moss Vale:

Sport

Sporting teams in Moss Vale:

Notable residents

Notable former residents

  • Dr Frank Tidswell, microbiologist, and his wife Edith lived at Farnborough in the 1930s

  • Major General Ian Ross Campbell, CBE, DSO and Bar, (23 March 1900 – 31 October 1997) was born in Moss Vale

References

References

  1. {{cite NSW SHR. 5045550. Throsby Park Historic Site
  2. {{cite NSW SHR. 5012110. Moss Vale Railway Station and yard group
  3. {{cite NSW SHR. 5012111. Moss Vale rail underbridge over Argyle Street
  4. {{cite NSW SHR. 5045492. Oldbury Farm
  5. "2021 Moss Vale, Census All persons QuickStats".
  6. {{Census 2016 AUS
  7. "Statistics by Catalogue Number". Australian Bureau of Statistics.
  8. "Search Census data". Australian Bureau of Statistics.
  9. Authority, The Australian Communications and Media. (31 August 2017). "Search for broadcasters by postcode".
  10. "ABC Television (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)".
  11. "SBS Transmissions".
  12. "Tom Green". Centre for Australian Art.

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