The Homestead
Brick and tile on the elevated site. Two bedrooms, open-plan living with an open fireplace, wide entertaining veranda and in-ground pool. Gravity-fed rainwater from an elevated tank; generator power.
The largest private holding in the Sydney basin · 1,110 hectares · Webbs Creek NSW
A valley of your own, ninety minutes from Sydney.
One family, one valley, fifty-eight years. Googoorewon is offered whole, for the first time, to the next family who will keep it that way.
Offered as a single holding across four titles
- 1,110Hectares · the largest private holding in the Sydney basin
- 9 kmDouble frontage to Webbs Creek
- 4National parks at the boundary
- 90minTo Sydney CBD
- 58Years in one family
Privacy at scale
The largest private holding in the Sydney basin — and a valley that ends at your gate.
At 1,110 hectares, Googoorewon is the largest privately held landholding in the Sydney basin — 2,743 acres, held whole, offered whole. It occupies the head of the Webbs Creek valley. The public road finishes here. Beyond the boundary lies Yengo, Dharug and Wollemi National Parks and the Parr State Conservation Area — a protected wilderness that will not be subdivided, built out or overlooked.
The result is a landscape of a kind that no longer exists this close to a global city: sixty hectares of alluvial creek flats on the valley floor, a ninety-acre basalt plateau above, nine kilometres of crystal creek between — and more than a thousand hectares of native forest, sandstone cliff and limestone cave to walk, ride and never fully know.
The estate
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Valley floor
Sixty hectares of alluvial flats
Sandy loam creek flats run the length of the property — open, fertile grazing sheltered by the ranges on every side, with scope for fodder production and pasture improvement.
The estate plan
Where everything sits.
Webbs Creek enters at the north-west corner and leaves past the main entrance in the east. The residences sit on the elevated terrace at the heart of the valley floor; the basalt plateau and its dam on the southern spur.
- Webbs Creek — 9 km, both banks
- Main entrance
- Lagoon & wetlands
- Homestead & cottage
- Cattle yards & machinery shed
- Billabongs
- Poplar plantations
- Hardwood plantations
- Limestone caves
- Basalt plateau & dam
Four titles, one holding
Parish of MacDonald, County of Hunter. The land is held across four Certificates of Title, offered together. The largest, Lot 11, carries the forested ranges and the basalt plateau; the three smaller lots hold the valley floor and the residences.
- Lot
- Lot 11
- Deposited plan
- DP 1107126
- Approx. area
- 769.98 ha
The valley & the creek
Nine kilometres of water you will never share.
Webbs Creek is permanent, crystal clear and lined with sand. It runs the full length of the property, both banks yours, pooling into deep permanent waterholes beneath sandstone overhangs. Bass fishing, swimming and kayaking from the front paddock; three billabongs, two lagoons and a dam besides.
“The sunsets over the sandstone cliff faces are something to be experienced.”
The valley floor is sandy loam alluvium — highly fertile, open and sheltered by the ranges on every side. Above it, a 36-hectare basalt plateau with its own dam sits like a second property in the sky.
Wildlife & flora
A private wilderness, with residents.
Koalas in the gums. Platypus and bass in the creek. Lyrebirds, king parrots, eastern rosellas, cockatoos and eagles overhead. And, seen often enough to be family, a pure white wallaby.
Native timber
- Sydney & Parramatta Blue Gum
- Ironbark
- Turpentine
- Stringybark
- Spotted Gum
Plantations
- Four hardwood stands
- Three poplar groves
- Historic orchard flats
- Limestone caves
- Sandstone cliffs
Residences
Two homes today. The site of a lifetime tomorrow.
The existing dwellings are modest, sound and well-placed — a base from which to live on the land while a principal residence is conceived. Both are entirely off-grid, with their own water, power and outlook.
The Cottage
Built from the property's own Blue Gum, Poplar and Stringybark. Open-plan studio living with slow-combustion heater, island kitchen and veranda on two sides. Solar with battery storage, satellite and mobile coverage, 25,000 litres of rainwater.
Working infrastructure
Steel machinery shed, two bays and lockable workshop. Three hay sheds. Timber post-and-rail cattle yards with crush, race and ramp.Water security
Permanent creek, three billabongs, two lagoons, one dam. Approx. 850 mm annual rainfall. Bore potential subject to approval.Carrying capacity
Historically 70 cows and calves, with scope to lift through fodder on the flats and pasture improvement.Outgoings
Hawkesbury City Council rates 2026–27: $3,273.35.A multi-generational holding
Land is not what you buy. It is what you leave.
Googoorewon is not a farm with a lifestyle attached. It is a private geography — large enough that children, grandchildren and their friends can each find their own corner of it, and protected enough that it will look the same when they do.
The family seat
A principal residence on the elevated terrace or the plateau, commanding the length of the valley. C4 zoning permits dwelling houses, dual occupancies and rural workers' dwellings — room for every generation under separate roofs.
The working estate
Cattle on the flats, horses in the fenced paddocks, hardwood and poplar plantations maturing on the slopes. Extensive agriculture is permitted without consent; the land pays for its own keep while the family uses it.
The private retreat
Swimming holes, bass fishing, riding trails, rock climbing, camping under the cliffs. Should a future generation choose, eco-tourist facilities, camping grounds and helipads are all permissible with consent. Or keep the gate shut.
Zoning
C4 Environmental Living
A zone designed to protect places of special ecological and aesthetic value while allowing low-impact residential living and sustainable agriculture. In practice, it protects the valley from everyone else, while leaving the owner a generous range of uses.
Permitted without consent
Environmental protection works · Extensive agriculture · Home occupationsPermitted with consent (selected)
Dwelling houses · Dual occupancies · Rural workers' dwellings · Eco-tourist facilities · Tourist and visitor accommodation · Camping grounds · Helipads · Farm buildings · Animal boarding or training establishments · Forestry · Recreation facilities · Water storage facilities · Jetties and mooringsZoning information as per the Information Memorandum; purchasers should rely on their own enquiries.
Location & access
Remote in every way but distance.
1340–1451 Webbs Creek Road, reached by the Hawkesbury River car ferry at Wisemans Ferry — a crossing that is still free, still constant, and still the finest front gate in New South Wales.
- Wisemans Ferry
- 20 min
- St Albans
- 40 min
- Dural
- 1 hr
- Windsor
- 1 hr
- Sydney CBD
- 1 hr 30
- By helicopter from Sydney
- ≈ 25 min
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The land, in every light.
Private enquiries
Offered for the first time in fifty-eight years.
For sale by auction · Tuesday 17 November 2026, 10:30am · Sydney
The largest private holding in the Sydney basin, in one line, to one buyer. The full Information Memorandum, title particulars and contract of sale are available to qualified parties on request. Inspections are by private appointment only.