NSW governors’ country home: Hillview

Updated November 13 2012 - 9:25pm, first published September 16 2010 - 12:12am
EARLY HILLVIEW: The remodelled mansion before major additions, with new gardens flourishing.
EARLY HILLVIEW: The remodelled mansion before major additions, with new gardens flourishing.
SUTTON FOREST PROSPECT: This sketch from the Sydney Mail in 1893 shows RP Richardson’s residence as it looked before becoming vice-regal.
SUTTON FOREST PROSPECT: This sketch from the Sydney Mail in 1893 shows RP Richardson’s residence as it looked before becoming vice-regal.

For generations of State governors, Hillview (at Sutton Forest) was a secluded country house where, free from public expectation or scrutiny, they could spend time with their families, relax, and, like Lord Wakehurst, potter about the property in a baggy cardigan and moth-eaten tennis shoes.”

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