Bookham Information
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Bookham Information
The village of Bookham was named by Lady Jane Franklin, wife of the Governor of Van Diemens Land, Sir John Franklin whilst travelling overland from Melbourne to Sydney in 1839.
Inspiration for “Banjo Paterson’s classic poem “Old Pardon the Son of Reprieve”, came from his childhood memories of races on the Bogalong Racetrack, which today is an open paddock a short distance from the village. Close by is the site of Julian’s old home, where bushrangers often sought or demanded food and shelter during that romantic and dangerous period of the 1860’’s.
There are still two fine churches constructed of locally quarried granite still in the village of Bookham. They are the Uniting Church (c1926) and the Catholic Church, St Columbas (c1910).
Bookham is in close proximity to the Murrumbidgee River via the Childowla Road, which is the beginning of the Murrumbidgee Kayak Trail to Wagga Wagga.
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