[citation needed] The natural environment of the area attracts visitors, and the village is in close proximity to the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden and the Wollemi and Blue Mountains national parks.

The people of the Darkiñung language group occupied the ranges from Richmond to Maitland, with part of their country incorporating the catchment areas of the Hawkesbury river tributaries.

[4] In November 1804, George Caley, with three convicts in his party, attempted to cross the Blue Mountains along the northern edge of the Grose Valley and passed to the south of Mount Tomah.

He initially failed to find a safe descent to the west from Mount Tomah, but returned a month later and was able to travel into the Hartley valley.

[6] Bell found the greatest difficulty on the journey “was in the thick part of his way to Tomah, so much so that in one place he was forced to cut his way through three miles”.

Soon afterwards the surveyor-general John Oxley instructed his assistant-surveyor Robert Hoddle to survey Bell's line of road.

[11] George M. C. Bowen, who had previously been a land commissioner and surveyor, was granted 2,560 acres (1,036 ha) in 1831 at Berambing near Mount Tomah, which he named 'Bulgamatta'.

[14] With the establishment of pastoral runs beyond Bathurst and Mudgee herds of sheep and cattle began to be driven along Bell’s Line of Road to the markets at Homebush.

In January 1955, it was reported that "Berambing residents are very pleased that electricity is now available, and already a number have the good fortune to have their homes wired and connected".