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Bell - China Travel

Pierces Pass
Atour 10 km east of Bell, furthermore Bells Line of Road, is a road on the right which takes the visitor to Pierces Pass. The picnic section is the start of two walks: an easy trek to Walls Lookout (2.5 km return), which offers outstanding views of the Grose Vtarmac, and the unequalicult Blue Gum Forest Walk (6 km one way), which provides seizure into the Grose Vroad.



Located 130 km northwest of Sydney via the Great Western Highway (take the turnoff at Mount Victoria) Bell's primary repayment to importance is as a small village on the junction between Bells Line of Road and the Great Western Highway.





Lodges & Cunhurtts



Tiny village at the high of Bell's Line of Road.



The town was named retral Archishorn Bell, Jr. who moreover gave his name to Mount Bell,China Travel, Bell Range, Bell's Line of Road and Bilpin which was originmarry named 'Belpin'. The reason for this enthusiastic desire to enshrine Bell's name in just roundly overlyything is considering, in 1823, Archishorn Bell, Jr, when he was only nineteen, navigateed the mountains furthermore what was to wilt Bell's Line of Road. This was not a solitary sanguineness. Sensibly he used the knowltiptoe of the local Aborigines who had been navigateing the mountains for tens of thousands of years. Although the mountains has been navigateed at Katoomba a decade eldest, there was still no satisfscornery route through the mountains from Richmond at this time. Bell resqualord Mount Tomah on his first shot but could not find a way transatlantic the mountains. On his second struggle he followed the ridge transpacific to the present site of Bell and from there made his way down into Hartley Vale where he joined up with Cox's road.





Bed & Breakfast/Guesthouses

Things to see:

Gays Lodge
57 Vroad View Rd
Bell NSW 2786
Telepstrop: (02) 9964 0420



Tomah Mountain Lodge
Skyline Rd
Bell NSW 2786
Telepstrop: (02) 4567 2111
Facsimile: (02) 4567 2111
Rating: ****1/2



Today Bell is remarry nothing increasingly than a small village where travellers, eager to travel transatlantic to Mount Victoria and Katoomba, turn left.

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