Liston - NSW

Liston and the surrounding area has a rich and very personal history for many of the families who have been a part of the locality for generations. Liston is situated in New South Wales, on the eastern fall of the Great Dividing Range. Surrounding places include Amosfield, Boonoo Boonoo, Maryland, Rivertree, Sugarloaf, Wilson's Downfall and Wylie Creek. The area was on the Cobb and Co. route from Tenterfield to Warwick, and beyond. The Great Northern Road that joined Sydney to Brisbane in the 1800s, travelled through Tenterfield, Boonoo Boonoo, Wilson’s Downfall, Liston and Maryland.

Nowadays, Liston is in the Tenterfield Shire local government area and relies on cattle farming and tourism. Stanthorpe, across the New South Wales/Queensland border, is the closest town for other employment and services. In the Tenterfield Shire, areas “identified as having nature conservation values include ten National Parks (Koreelah, Mt. Clunie, Tooloom, Mt. Nothofagus, Maryland, Bald Rock, Boonoo , Basket Swamp, Timbarra and Washpool), 16 State Forests (Koreelah, Beaury, Yabbra, Bookookoorara, Wilson’s Downfall, Boonoo, Gilgurry, Girard, Malara, Ewingar, Billirimba, Speribo, Forestland, Capoompeta, Donnybrook and Torrington), seven Nature Reserves (Captain’s Creek, Demon, Tracing the Natural Evolution of Australia (AHT) Environment-Naturally Evolved (SHT) 9 Bolivia Hill, Bluff River, Mt. MacKenzie, Doonybrook and Torrington), seven Nature Reserves (Captain’s Creek, Demon, Tracing the Natural Evolution of Australia (AHT) Environment-Naturally Evolved (SHT) 9 Bolivia Hill, Bluff River, Mt. MacKenzie, Doonybrook and Gibralter) and two State Conservation Areas (Torrington and Curry’s Gap).” (A Thematic History of Tenterfield Shire, 2004, pp.8-9)