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LIVING HISTORY

THERE’S SOMETHING QUITE MAGICAL about the Lower Hunter Valley. It starts near Gosford and the Central Coast of NSW and runs to Cessnock in the north-west across a region rich in colonial and agricultural history, home to one of Australia’s oldest and most popular wine regions.

Less than an hour’s drive from Newcastle and two hours from Sydney is heritage-listed Wallalong House. When Ian and Bernadette Davidson first saw the home and its four hectares in 2015 they knew

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