Holy Trinity Church

 

Kameruka
An attractive and unusual village famous for its long association with cheese production.
Kameruka is a village and historic estate 449 km south of Sydney via the Princes Highway and 21 km southwest of Bega.

Europeans moved into the Kameruka area in 1834 when the Imlay Brothers (see Eden) took up a 200 000-acre cattle run. The depression in the early 1840s saw the Imlays forced to hand their land over to the Walker Brothers, Sydney merchants in 1844. It was the Walkers who established the homestead at Kameruka.

Born in Scotland the Walker Brothers attempted to replicate the lifestyle of the eighteenth-century British gentry. They built a four-roomed Georgian house and indulged in dingo hunting - a kind of local equivalent of an English fox hunt. An Aborigine named Tom Doolin was their master of the hounds, and a stone cairn, which still stands, was erected to his memory.

William Walker (1787-1854) was the son of a Scottish laird who joined a firm of merchants operating out of Calcutta. In 1813 he was sent to Sydney to collect debts owed by Robert Campbell, a merchant and the co-founder of the colony's first savings bank.

The Walkers sold their properties to the Twofold Bay Pastoral Association in 1852, a joint venture of the Manning brothers, the Tooth brothers (members of the renowned Kent Brewery family of Sydney) and T.S. Mort. Kameruka was made the head station of a 400 000-acre empire. James Manning acted as resident manager until the partnership was dissolved in 1860. Manning encouraged German immigrants to settle in the district hence the number of German names in the district.

Manning bought Kameruka in 1861 but floods, disease and the Land Act broke up the family holdings and, after losing 7000 cattle through pneumonia, Manning sold Kameruka in 1862 to Frederick Tooth who, in turn, sold it to his nephew Robert Tooth (1844-1915) in 1864. It was Robert who began to develop the largely self-contained community, based on the English agricultural estate system.

Today the estate covers 5000 acres of undulating countryside. Owned by Tooth's granddaughter and great grandson it is run, in part, by share farmers.

Things to see:  

Kameruka Homestead
Kameruka contains the oldest dairy stud in Australia, established by Tooth in 1880 at Bowral, where he built a house, and transplanted to Kameruka in 1888. Visiting times are from 10-4 and milking is carried out each day from 2-3.30 pm. An admission fee is payable at the Homestead Information Office where you can collect a map and a history of the property. There is also a restaurant and gift shop and a nine-hole golf course.

 

Holy Trinity Church
The Tooth family have been described as Edmund Blacket's 'great Sydney patrons' so it is probably unsurprising that they turned to him when they needed an architect to design a church for the estate. Holy Trinity Church's (1869) most lavish feature is its high-pitched roof which lends it a picturesque aspect from a distance. The church also contains memorials to the Tooth family. The cemetery can be found across across the paddock behind the church. The high clock tower and gatehouse were erected in 1911. There is a war memorial to the local people who died in the World Wars near the church.

 

 

 

 

 

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