Bowenfels is a small town on the western outskirts of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.

Near Lithgow, on the Great Western Highway, is Bowenfels (with the homestead of the valley's first settler, Andrew Brown).

[4] At South Bowenfels, Magpie Hollow Road heads west[5] to Lake Lyell and then on to Tarana and O'Connell.

Bowenfels was founded in the 1830s to service travellers along the new road to Bathurst, which opened in 1832,[2] following the opening of the Victoria Pass,[6] which sealed the fate of the old Bathurst road in its descent of Mt.

[7] It was named by Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell after George Mears Bowen, a former member of his department.