| Mount Victoria is at the top of the Blue
Mountains. While the heights above sea level on road signs show Blackheath to
be the highest, the town heights recorded are generally the heights of the railway
stations, the highest point is actually in Mount Victoria. The town is
now heritage listed and hosts many historic buildings. Step back in time as you
enter this wonderful little Blue Mountains Village. 
As you enter Mount Victoria from Blackheath you will pass Browntown Oval on your
left. The next street to the right is Victoria Falls Road which leads to Victoria
Falls Lookout. On the south side of the highway drive up Mt. Piddington Road to
highest point in the Blue Mountains ‘One Tree Hill’ and Mount Piddington
within Fairy Bower Reserve. From here you can take the walking track to Hornes
Point.
Also on the south side of the highway, a drive down Kanimbla
Valley Road takes you to Mount Victoria’s Pulpit Rock and Bede’s Lookout
overlooking the Kanimbla Valley.
Nearby you will find Cox’s Cave,
Ross Cave and Bushranger Cave. Lookouts further north include Sunset Rock Lookout
down Grand View Road overlooking Wilson’s Gully, and Mitchell’s Ridge
overlooking Victoria Pass and the Greater Lithgow area.  Back
in the centre of town you will find many grand hotels, the old Post Office, the
Gatekeeper’s Cottage and Toll Bar House. Toll Bar Houses were built across
the Blue Mountains. Fortunately one of these sandstone buildings still remains
today. "The Old Toll Bar House" is located at Mount Victoria
and was built in 1849. On the corner of Station Street and the Great Western Highway
you will find the historic Hotel Imperial and Mount Victoria Park. Further
down in Station Street is the Mount Victoria Museum which was once part of Mount
Victoria’s railway station used as a refreshment room. The museum features
a range of old furniture, musical equipment and household items as well as many
other interesting items and historical information. If you continue along
Station Street the road changes to Darling Causeway which leads you through to
Bell and Bell’s Line of Road.
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Victoria also hosts one of the Blue Mountains treasured cinemas. Mount Vic Flicks
is the local cinema for the upper mountains with its own unique old fashioned
style, (a complete contrast to the ultra modern giant screen cinema experience
of the Edge Maxvision Cinema in Katoomba).
The cinema operates in the
local community hall. The building does not have a foyer and there is a single
person ticket box at the front entrance. Once you open the front doors, you enter
the cinema auditorium. The seats are older style, yet comfortable on a flat floor
with great sight lines to the screen. Located at the front of the auditorium is
the cinema candy bar which is only open prior to the show.
While
the cinema has its own country feel, the image on the screen is clean and bright
with a professional presentation.
On the north of the highway west of the centre of town is Mount York Road. This
road will take you to Mount York where you can see some of the original Cox’s
Road. At Mount York Lookout you will be amazed to view the sheer drop to the Hartley
Valley which you can enter via a walking track which starts at this point. You
will also find a monument for several early explorers who arrived at this point.
Back on the Great Western Highway travelling west you will reach Victoria
Pass. In 1832 Major Mitchell built a road from Mount Victoria to Hartley to replace
the dangerous grades of Bathurst Road built by William Cox.
This new
road made it possible to travel safely via horse-drawn vehicles. However, not
foreseeing some 72 years into the future in 1904, the first motor car to travel
down Victoria Pass required the assistance of a horse to be able to get back to
the top. When the railway line came through to the village, the town was
given the name of Mount Victoria in 1868 after the young Princess Victoria, however,
it was originally mapped by surveyor General Thomas Mitchell as ‘One Tree
Hill’.
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