Clandulla is a village in New South Wales, Australia, within the Mid-Western Regional Council, about 225 kilometres north-west of Sydney.
[4][5] In September 1881 William Hawkins was granted a publican's license for the White Horse Hotel located at “Flatlands, Clandulla”.
[8] The railway extension passed through the site of the present-day village, by-passing the established settlement of Ilford eight miles to the south-east on the Sydney Road.
[9] In October 1885 it was notified that Crown Lands were "declared to be reserved and set apart" as a site for the village at Carwell.
Additional homes in the village were "springing up in consequence of recent subdivision sales" (which were probably stimulated by the construction of the nearby Charbon cement works).
Experimental distillation of oil took place, but the 'lead bath' retorts were unsuitable—the low temperature of operation could not recover enough of the valuable ammonia by-product—and the quality of the carbonaceous shale—not torbanite, or 'kerosene shale' as it was then known—at Mornington was too poor to extract its oil content economically, by any available method.
[23] In January 1925, with the cement works under construction, Albert Dalwood, the chairman of directors of Clandulla Cement Ltd., stated in an interview that “the situation of the works is a unique one, owing to enormous deposits of all the requisite raw materials, lime stone, shale, coal and water being within half a mile of the factory site, providing exceptional facilities for production at low cost”.
[25] In June 1929 it was reported that “the proposed new town to be established on the Great Western Cement Company’s property at Clandulla” would be called 'Concrete'.
By the end of 1930 the Great Western Cement Company had applied to lease 30 acres at Bunnerong in south-east Sydney in order to erect “works for the manufacture of carbon dioxide and lime products”.
The Clandulla Limestone formation has a maximum thickness of 170 metres and is part of the extensive Lachlan Orogen (Fold Belt).