It is located about 17 km southwest of Braidwood on the western bank of the Shoalhaven River.

[1] The area now known as Farringdon lies on the traditional lands of Walbanga people, a group of Yuin.

After settler colonisation, the area lay within the Nineteen Counties that were opened to settlement.

Elrington had a 29-year military career, including service in the Peninsula War, before selling his commission and migrating to Australia.

Elrington worked his land using convict labour, and his old home retained its small prison, complete with leg irons, until the early 1920s.