Morpeth is vying for a place on the State Heritage Register to preserve its historic fabric indefinitely.
It argues the Morpeth Heritage Conservation Area, which surrounds the town, meets all of the criteria used to determine whether something is of state significance.
It says the street layout hasn’t dramatically changed since 1845, which has made the Morpeth of today vastly different from other long-established towns like East Maitland.
Full article available at Maitland Mercury, 21 Sep 2016.
