Hartley

Here is one of the 17 historic buildings at Hartley, a tiny village just 15 mins away from Blackheath into the Kanimbla Valley.

It is a nineteenth century village on the River Lett. Buildings are scattered amongst pastures, orchards, native vegetation and the remnants of nineteenth and twentieth century cottage gardens. It has an abandoned feel with no new buildings at all, just the well preserved scattered 17 remaining.

The village survives as a substantial remnant of one of the first rural settlements west of the Blue Mountains, one which played an essential role in the development of inland Australia.

I liked the way this tree was planted so close to the building and how the trunk curved away, trying to grab a bit of space.