1922
13 July 1922
Leaving the hamlet the road to Rylstone follows closely the course of the Cudgegong. Not much farming is done, here and there patches of maize and potatoes, but little fodder seems to be grown and nearly all the chaff is brought from Mudgee or Rylstone, making feeding of stock expensive. This is all the more to be wondered at, as there is plenty of cultivation land available. The scenery along the road at times is picturesque and wild. At one place the road winds round the foot of a series of high hills and down below is the river, at times a couple of hundred feet below. The curves on the road are pretty sharp and "Go Slow" is on the notice boards. At one time the old traffic road crossed the river several times, causing endless delays and accidents. At the present time this is all avoided by the road spoken of. A great deal of the land here is under grazing and dairying, which is 'said to be very profitable in the spring and summer months,' but in the winter the stock must have a hard time through want of the conservation of fodder1
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1924
6 June 1924
We go through Cudgegong (where the Readfords lived in days gone by) a village which is linked up with Rylstone by a roadway that is nearly perfect, though part of it has been carved out of the base of a steep hill and is fenced on the right-hand side to save travellers from a prospective fall into the pretty river just below2
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