About

The land that is now Clarendon was originally part of the 10,000-acre Newlyn Downs, owned by Frank Waddell-Wood. 

When Newlyn Downs was subdivided in 1927, the Clarendon block was drawn by Fred Painter - a former manager of Moralee station on the Gil Gil Creek, and a blade shearer with an unusual second talent: bicycle racing. Painter once won the Goulburn to Sydney race outright. 

Painter built the Clarendon homestead, had a telephone connected in 1928, and had Jack Brooks and Jimmy Lammond from Moree build the woolshed. His name still marks the district's stock route at Painter's Bore, sitting to the left of Clarendon's front gate. 

The property was sold to I.B.M. Tomlinson in 1935. In 1966, Ian and Norma Forsyth (I.B.M. Tomlinson's daughter) purchased Clarendon, which began the more than sixy years of Forsyth family ownership, and gradual expansion. 

Today, the Forsyth family farms the Clarendon, Gabo, Tallahasse, Bencubbin, Killawarra and Sylvania properties in the Croppa Creek and Crooble areas, for grain and fodder crops, and to support their herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle.