Bathurst Gasworks.

Bathurst Gasworks ran on Russell Street from 1888 to 1987, producing town gas for Bathurst, Orange, and Lithgow under a three-council partnership for 91 years before being leased to AGL in 1979. Town gas production ceased in 1987, when Bathurst was switched onto the state natural gas grid. The site shows the standard pattern of a 19th-century country gasworks: a coal-fired retort house, byproduct storage, and a service yard. Coal tar from the gas-making process produced significant ground contamination, and the site has been partly remediated by Bathurst Regional Council with funding from the NSW Environmental Trust in 2008 and 2009. The retort building is the most prominent surviving structure and is documented in the Bathurst Regional Council heritage layer.