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Barraba Shire
Barraba Shire was a local government area located in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia, about north of Tamworth via Fossickers Way. The Shire, administered from the town of Barraba covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1906 until 2004, when it was split between two new LGAs, Gwydir Shire and Tamworth Regional Council. History In 1897, a progress association was brought into being by local residents to advocate for the area and to manage infrastructure. With the passage of the ''Local Government Act 1906'', which established shires all over New South Wales, the Barraba Shire was gazetted on 6 March 1906. As the town met the requirements for municipality status, it was separately gazetted as the Barraba Municipality on 19 May 1906. S. J. Lillis was elected the municipality's first mayor, while John Morrow became the first Barraba Shire president. On 1 November 1953, the Barraba Municipality was abolished and the town came under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of New South Wales , established_title2 = Establishment , established_date2 = 26 January 1788 , established_title3 = Responsible government , established_date3 = 6 June 1856 , established_title4 = Federation , established_date4 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Wales , demonym = , capital = Sydney , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center = 128 local government areas , admin_center_type = Administration , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Margaret Beazley , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Dominic Perrottet (Liberal) , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type1 = Senat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamworth Regional Council
Tamworth Regional Council is a local government area in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. The area under administration is located adjacent to the New England Highway and the Main North railway line. It was established in March 2004 through the amalgamation of the former City of Tamworth with surrounding shires of Barraba, Manilla, Nundle and Parry. The mayor of Tamworth Regional Council is Cr. Russell Webb, an independent politician. Towns and villages The area includes the city of Tamworth and the towns and villages of Attunga, Barraba, Bendemeer, Dungowan, Duri, Kootingal, Limbri, Manilla, Moonbi, Niangala, Nundle, Ogunbil, Somerton, Upper Manilla and Woolbrook. Suburbs * Calala * Coledale * Daruka Estate * East Tamworth * Forest Hills * Hillvue * Kingswood * Nemingha * North Tamworth * Oxley Vale * South Tamworth * Taminda * Tamworth * Tamworth Central Business District * Westdale * West Tamworth Heritage listings Tamworth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Horton
Upper Horton is a very small village and surrounding agricultural area located by the Horton River in northern New South Wales, Australia. The community of Upper Horton lies high in the Horton River Valley. It is accessed from the Fossickers Way with the turnoff 13 km north of Barraba and a journey of 19 km to the village. The village does not have a school. Children from the area travel to Barraba for school. The Upper Horton district is included within Gwydir Shire local government area which is centred in Bingara. The major event of the village is the very popular and highly regarded New Years Day Rodeo Rodeo () is a competitive equestrian sport that arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain and Mexico, expanding throughout the Americas and to other nations. It was originally based on the skills required of the working va .... Upper Horton Post Office opened on 1 September 1899. References Towns in New South Wales Towns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ironbark, New South Wales
Stuart Town, formerly known as Ironbark, is a small town on the Central Western Slopes of New South Wales, Australia within Dubbo Regional Council. It is located north-west of the state capital, Sydney. At the , Stuart Town had a population of 487. The area around the town is rich in cattle farming and orchards, so the town serves as a service centre to that area. It has public schoolanCatholicanchurches. History The area now known as Stuart Town lies within the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri people. The village was formerly called Ironbark and was established following the discovery of gold in the area in the early 1850s with the heyday of gold mining being in the late 1850s and 1860s. The gold attracted bushrangers to the area. It was renamed Stuart Town in 1879—with the arrival of the Main Western railway from Sydney—after Sir Alexander Stuart. Gold mining in the area was revived, from 1899 and during first decade of the 20th century, when gold dredge mining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parry Shire
Parry Shire is a former local government area in New South Wales, Australia. The former Parry Shire was located in the Liverpool Plains region and covered a broad area of countryside, south and east of the city of Tamworth. It did not include any major town, but had several villages. Parry Shire was formed in 1980 by the amalgamation of the former Peel Shire and Cockburn Shire. Part of the Peel Shire area was re-allocated to the growing City of Tamworth area at that time. Parry Shire was named because it occupied most of the land of Parry County, one of the cadastral ( survey and land registration ) divisions of New South Wales. Parry County was named after Sir William Edward Parry, a director of the Australian Agricultural Company, an early major landholder in the area. Parry Shire was abolished in a local government restructuring in 2004. Most of the shire was incorporated into the new Tamworth Regional Council and the southern part was included in the new Liverpool Plains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nundle Shire
Nundle Shire was a local government area in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. Nundle Shire was proclaimed on 7 March 1906, one of 134 shires created after the passing of the '' Local Government (Shires) Act 1905''. The shire office was in Nundle. Other towns in the shire included Woolomin. Nundle Shire amalgamated with the City of Tamworth, Manilla Shire and parts of Parry Shire and Barraba Shire to form Tamworth Regional Council Tamworth Regional Council is a local government area in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. The area under administration is located adjacent to the New England Highway and the Main North railway line. It was established in Ma ... on 17 March 2004. References Former local government areas of New South Wales 1906 establishments in Australia 2004 disestablishments in Australia {{NSW-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Tamworth
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yallaroi Shire
Yallaroi Shire was a local government area located in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia, about south of Goondiwindi via Fossickers Way. The Shire, administered from the town of Warialda, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1906 until 2004, when it was amalgamated with Bingara Shire and part of Barraba to form the Gwydir Shire. History In August 1897, a public meeting was held in Warialda to consider "the desirableness of transferring the village into a municipality". The residents decided against the proposal at this time, but two years later, petitioned the Governor for a municipality with a population of more than 500 and an area of . The Warialda Municipality thus came into being on 30 March 1900. John Crane was elected its first mayor. With the passage of the ''Local Government Act 1906'', which established shires all over New South Wales, the Yallaroi Shire was gazetted to serve the surrounding district on 6 March 1906. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
