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Ravensworth

Ravensworth is 19 kilometres north of the Singleton Post Office, is another tiny settlement known as Ravensworth where there is a huge open-cut coal mine (on the road side to the right) which exclusively supplies coal for domestic power generation. If you take a right turn into Hebden Road, near the school, you will see Ravensworth house to the right 305 kilometres along the road. It was built in 1840 and possibly designed by John Verge.

Ravensworth was one if the first grants in this district, being made out to James Bowman in the early 1820s. He established a farm which was then the most northerly on the Hunter and, in 1832, married one of John Macarthur’s daughters. Being the most northerly property at the time, the party of surveyor Henry Dangar retreated gratefully to this point after being attacked by Aborigines in the area west of present-day Murrurundi in 1824.