Warkworth, New South Wales

Head south out of the town on the Glenridding Road, an extension of John Street. At 6 kilometres is the Maitland turnoff and at 7 kilometres the Broke turn off (along Wollombi Road). Another 2.2 kilometres brings you to an intersection. On the left is the turn off to the Mt Thorley Industrial Area, the base for much of the local mine serving industry. On the right is the road to Denman via Warkworth. If you take the latter a few hundred metres will bring you to a view of the Warkworth Open-Cut Mine.

Now a coalmining area the land, first granted in 1824, was formerly given over to agricultural and pastoral activities.

As you come over and down a hill into Warkworth is Jim Johnstone Park, names after the founder of a nearby colliery. The machine in the grounds is a Lee-norse Continuous Coalmining Machine (1959).