Berry

Berry is a historic town in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, located about 140 kilometres south of Sydney on the Princes Highway. Established in the 1820s on land granted to Alexander Berry, it retains a well-preserved 19th-century streetscape with heritage-listed buildings. Notable for its boutique shops, cafes, monthly markets, and surrounding dairy farmland, it serves as a gateway to the South Coast and nearby beaches.

Visitors can expect a compact heritage town centre along Queen Street with preserved 19th-century shopfronts, boutique stores, cafes, bakeries and galleries set against rolling dairy pastures and the escarpment backdrop. The town is walkable, with the Berry Museum, historic pubs and churches, and regular produce and craft markets. Surrounding areas offer rural scenery, nearby beaches and national parks, and opportunities for shopping, dining and short heritage walks.

Berry was established on a large land grant to Alexander Berry and Edward Wollstonecraft in 1822, with the town surveyed in the 1880s. It developed as a service centre for the surrounding dairy and timber industries and retains many buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, forming a listed heritage conservation area that reflects colonial settlement patterns on the NSW South Coast.

Berry is recognised as a heritage conservation town valued for its intact Victorian and Federation streetscape, rural character and community markets. It functions as a cultural hub for the Shoalhaven, hosting regular produce markets, festivals and artisan enterprises that celebrate South Coast food, crafts and rural heritage.