Broke is a village of approximately 557 people in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia in Singleton Shire. It is located 157 kilometres to the north of Sydney on the original early colonial
View of Broke from nearby hills
Ruins of Blaxland Homestead, Broke Road
Former police station, Broke Road
Catholic Church, Broke Road
The Great North Road is a historic road that was built to link early Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, now Australia, with the fertile Hunter Valley to the north. Built by convicts between 182
Section of Great North including gutter hewn from solid rock leading to culvert for box drain beneath road surface.
The southern end of the Great North Road, at Parramatta Road in Five Dock, photographed in the 1930s.
Benchmark on the route of the Great North Road
Rock carving created by convict work gang, probably around 1829; it is only a short distance from the beginning of the Great North Road at Parramatta Road