‘This is possibly the largest Private landholding within 3 hours of Sydney.’
13kms from Historic Stroud
75 mins from Newcastle CBD and International Airport
60 mins from the beaches at Hawks Nest
75 mins inland from Port Stephens/Nelson Bay

Offering 9800 acres in the Upper Mill Creek area of Stroud

Timber harvest consent until 2014
Extensive forest road system
3 bdm homestead – Study, sitting room, central double flued chimney with large open fireplace, 1.5 bathrooms, kitchen, laundry, brush box flooring, verandas…
Standing adjacent – Separate laundry, double garage and carport, milking bail, calf pen & fodder store bays, four bay shed comprising 2 loose boxes & tack room, elevated storage, studio shed (circa 1930), 4 bay machinery shed, workshop/quarters with kitchen & sep laundry, shower & toilet, rainwater to cottage, workshop/quarters and creek water to cottage garden.
Timber cattle yards, crush & loading ramp
Long frontage to Mill Creek (permanent), Coppermine Creek, Margerys Creek, Saggers Creek & Black Bullock Creek.
One family ownership for the past 80 odd years
Timber inventory exceeding $6 million
Comprising valuable stands of timber through to open forest grazing country

Overview
The homestead access is provided by an internal forest road system, connecting with public and other formal roads through adjoining lands.

The property has been managed for both timber and some grazing.

The property is predominantly regrowth forest but ranges eastwards from small areas of alluvial creek grazing, extensive open forest grazing, remnant areas of rainforest and large areas of forest with heavy understorey.

Scattered throughout on the ridges are numerous areas of open forest, their understorey dominated by Bladey & Kangaroo grasses providing sheltered cattle grazing during Autumn & Winter.

The established pastures consist of kikuyu and clovers in the South west corner of the Mill Creek frontage

Including some 50kms of arterial roads mostly aligned to public road standard, the internal roading system has been fully developed for timber extraction, and is maintained according to need.

With elevations ranging from between 100 and 500 metres above sea level, the generally steep topography (average 18 degree slope, or gradient 1:3) includes a series or ridges linking the eastern and western boundaries. When travelling along these features, the arterial roading presents various scenic outlooks from prominent (400+metres ASL) points within this headwater country.

Lot; Part Portion 5 & Lot 12
DP; 95525

Rural 1A zoning – (minimum subdivision allotments of 100 acre or 40Ha)
Great Lakes Shire Local Environmental Plan 1996

Covenants – Protected Land – Johnsons Creek catchment (approx 1800Ha)
Wildlife Refuge No.231 – Unrestricted development but providing concessional Land Valuation

Rainfall – Approx 45 to 60 inches per annum

Soils – Range from loams to clays

Grazing – Current grazing potential is estimated at some 300 head during Autumn and Wi