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Woodhouselee
New South Wales
Woodhouselee; New South Wales
	Woodhouselee
	Woodhouselee Location in New South Wales
Coordinates	34°33′57″S 149°38′02″E / 34.56583°S 149.63389°E
Population	15 (2016 census)
Postcode(s)	2580
Elevation	808 m (2,651 ft)
Location	115 km (71 mi) NE of Canberra ; 25 km (16 mi) NW of Goulburn ; 25 km (16 mi) SE of Crookwell ; 220 km (137 mi) SW of Sydney ;
LGA(s)	Upper Lachlan Shire
Region	Southern Tablelands
County	Argyle
Parish	Wayo
State electorate(s)	Goulburn
Federal division(s)	Hume
	Localities around Woodhouselee:

Woodhouselee is a locality in the Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales, Australia.^[2]^[3] It lies about 25 km northwest of Goulburn and 115 km northeast of Canberra. At the 2016 census, it had a population of 15.^[1]

Woodhouselee is said to have been named after an early settler called Woodhouse or to be a name given by William Lithgow^[4] to his "private township" after Woodhouselee, a small estate town south of Edinburgh, because of his early association as a student of the University of Edinburgh with the Tytler family.^[2]

Woodhouselee station was a station on the now disused Crookwell railway line from 1902 to 1975.^[5] Woodhouselee had a state public school from 1877 to 1893.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Woodhouselee". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Woodhouselee". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
^ "Woodhouselee". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
^ Possibly referring to William Lithgow.
^ "Woodhouselee Station". NSWRail.net. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
^ "Woodhouselee in the School history database search". New South Wales Department of Education. Retrieved 22 November 2018.