Yetholme, New South Wales
Yetholme is a village in New South Wales, Australia, originally known as Fryingpan and Frying Pan. The town is near Frying Pan Creek. It is situated east of Bathurst. Naming. Within the Bathurst regional local government area, the designated village is within the parish of Yetholme, and county of Roxburgh; which mirrors the Scottish village namesakes of Kirk Yetholm and Town Yetholm, within the Scottish parish of Yetholm, and the former Scottish county of Roxburghshire (now Scottish Borders). The name was in use for the Australian parish by 1834, when Charles Marsden was given a claim  for land of at Dirty Swap, Fish River. Yetholme village's 'Fryingpan' name was to change in 1866 when the church district was divided: Origins. By 1860, a township had formed with several substantial and well-built dwellings, and a 'commodious' National School. In 1863 crown lands were set aside and declared as suburban land for the Village of Yetholme, at , of , around Leigh, Parsons, and Fardell Streets. A post office called Yetholme was designated in mid-1866. The town was part of the stage coach route from Sydney to Bathurst, had three hotels, stores, bakers, butcher shops, and blacksmiths, pre -train line. By 1890, the public hotels, bakers and butchers were gone. Until 1836 the road from Sydney to Bathurst passed through Hartley, Bowenfels and O'Connell. By the end of 1836 a new road to Bathurst was constructed from Bowenfels, via Rydal and Yetholme. Together with good perennial streams, the area was known for its commercial supply of fruits: apples, pears, plums, cherries, gooseberries, raspberries, and currants. There are also the mineral deposits – although not in commercial quantities – of gold, silver, copper, manganese, limestone, and molybdenite. Facilities. The Kirkconnell Public School is named for the large property that was in  the neighbourhood. Saint Paul's Anglican Church, in Porters Lane, which was opened in May 1868, and has an adjacent cemetery with headstone inscriptions dating from 1873. A sign of the decline in prosperity of the area was noted by 1890 with the 'rather neat brick Anglican Church' in badly want of repair.