Thunderbolt's Hideout

New South Wales


About 12km out of Tenterfield on Mount Lindesay Rd, a 300m signposted walk leads to where bushranger Captain Thunderbolt (aka Frederick Wordsworth Ward, who ranged the bush in these parts from 1863 to 1870) once holed up.


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