Details

Latitude

-32.28486420557114

Longitude

150.905868774764

Start Date

End Date

28M Muswellbrook N W Singleton - so called because of the quantity of mussels found here in the early days. Ref: Stretch Ledger A9082 Note: Muswellbrook has a varied history it has been spelt - Mussle, Mussel, Muscle. It was so named because of the quantity of mussels found there in the early days. Lieutenant Grant in his journal of 1801 writes: - "the ground was covered with freshwatershells of the sort found in the rivers of England and Scotland and called the house mussel". On Oct 23 1833 it was gazetted Muscle Brook. About 1837 it began to be spelt Muswell Brook as the Post Office was so gazetted. Bishop Broughton, the first and only Bishop of Australia entered it in his diary under date of July 12 1843 as Muswell Brook. It is said by some to be so named by Sir Franics Forbes, - the first Chief Justice of N.S.W., who had a property to the south of the present town of Muswellbrook named Forbestown - after his ancestial home of Muswell Hill in Scotland. He himself was born in Bermuda

Sources