Buttsworth Creek

Buttsworth Creek is a small, shallow creek on the edge of the town of Wilberforce, New South Wales which takes a sinuous course flowing from Bushells Lagoon, through farming land, them emptying into the Hawkesbury River. The creek was named after the Henry Buttsworth who had land in the vicinity.

A landmark for over seventy years, Buttsworth Mill with its impressive chimney stack once stood on the northern bank of Buttsworth Creek. Constructed for Henry Buttsworth of locally quarried Hawkesbury sandstone, reputedly by John Stephens of Ebenezer in the mid 1840s, the mill replaced an earlier timber structure which had been in existence since the mid 1830s.

Henry Buttsworth arrived in the British colony of New South Wales on the convict transport Guildford in January 1812 and was assigned to Sarah, the youngest daughter of Wilberforce settler Thomas Rose, whom he married in November 1813. Henry and Sarah acquired about 115 acres on the banks of the Hawkesbury at Wilberforce in 1828.

During times of flood the creek rises rapidly and water covers the main road blocking access to the Windsor Bridge just over four kilometres away.

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