Brooman Valley Site For Auction
Sydney Morning Herald
Friday May 23, 1997
Clyde Bank is nestled below Pigeon House Mountain and the Budawang Ranges at Brooman on the South Coast between Batemans Bay and Ulladulla and 100 km due east of Canberra.
This 457.3 hectare freehold coastal property fronts the Clyde River and has the Clyde State Forest on three sides. The land is undulating grazing country to hilly timbered land and provides a variety of uses including cattle grazing, timber milling and possible tourist potential. Access is off a main tourist road.
Improvements include a two-bedroom residence, plus an owner-built cottage, machinery shed and cattle yards.
Clyde Bank with its large deep soil river flats has more than one kilometre of frontage to the Clyde River which flows through to Batemans Bay and out to the Pacific Ocean and provides fishing and boating.
The property forms part of the rich Brooman Valley which was a thriving township in the mid-1800s. Timber mills and gold fossicking, dairy farms and cattle grazing provided employment.
The old hands say that Clyde Bank was noted for the breeding of racehorses when a race track was prominent on the river flats in the early 1900s.
Steam boats travelled up the Clyde River from Batemans Bay to take on timber at Shallow Crossing, about 2 km downstream. Because of the shallow river, boats could only take half loads and top up downstream at other mill sites.
Clyde Bank has been in the one family for more than 50 years and is one of the largest single rural holdings left for sale in the area. The auction is on Saturday, May 31. About $500,000 is expected.
The agent is E. A. Cowley Country & Coastal Properties on (044) 55 1066.
© 1997 Sydney Morning Herald