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Yeoval
Yeoval is a small village in the Central Western district of New South Wales, Australia. The town lies in Cabonne Shire. However, a small part lies over Buckinbah Creek in Wellington Shire which is referred to as North Yeoval. Yeoval is located between Dubbo and Orange. At the 2016 census, Yeoval had a population of 430. The town was the childhood home of Australian poet Banjo Paterson, who lived on the nearby Buckinbah property, and many of his poems reflect the area. A Banjo Paterson Museum is open to visitors. History Yeoval a village in the Central West of New South Wales, centrally located between Orange, Dubbo, Parkes and Wellington. In 1868, gold, silver and copper were discovered 7 km from Yeoval. The Goodrich Mine operated in this area periodically until 1971. Yeoval Post Office opened on 1 November 1884. Yeoval railway station opened in 1925 on the now closed Molong–Dubbo railway line, and was sited to the north of the village in North Yeoval. Passeng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Yeoval
North Yeoval is a locality in New South Wales, Australia. It is the part of the village of Yeoval which lies within Dubbo Regional Council. The majority of the Village lies within the Cabonne shire. The dividing line is the Buckinbah Creek. North Yeoval is where the railway station was located as well as where the grain silos and bulk head are positioned. The Yeoval cemetery is also located in North Yeoval. External linksAustralian cemetery index Towns in the Central West (New South Wales) Dubbo Regional Council {{CentralWestNSW-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckinbah
Buckinbah Station is located on the edge of the Yeoval, New South Wales township that was the first home to Banjo Paterson. Yeoval Yeoval is a small village in the Central Western district of New South Wales, Australia. The town lies in Cabonne Shire. However, a small part lies over Buckinbah Creek in Wellington Shire which is referred to as North Yeoval. Yeoval is lo ... was initially known as Buckinbah in the 1860s until the name was changed in 1882. It remains today as mixed farming land however the original property has been split up between several owners. The present Buckinbah homestead was built between 1915-17. References {{reflist Localities in New South Wales Geography of New South Wales Central West (New South Wales) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumnock, New South Wales
Cumnock is a small town in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the now closed cross-country railway line from Molong to Dubbo. The town is located in Cabonne Shire. At the , Cumnock had a population of 275 people. In the 2021 census the "Suburbs and Localities" of Cumnock had a population of 491. Cumnock is named after the Scottish town in Ayrshire, the home of an early settler named Straborn. The Cumnock community pioneered a farmhouse rental program designed to attract new families to the area by making farmhouses available for rent for $1. This program has since spread to a number of other rural communities. Cumnock is located at the epicentre of the Central Western NSW's food-and-wine triangle, i.e., Orange, Dubbo, and Mudgee. The town is also known for its participation in the 120-kilometrAnimals on Bikes'Paddock Art' sculpture tourist trail which extends between Molong and the Dubbo Zoo, via Cumnock and Yeoval. Notable residents * Chris McKivat, Olympian and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drago Marin Cherina
Drago Marin Cherina (born 1949) is a Croatian sculpting artist, who was naturalized Australian in the years 1970. Life and career Cherina was born in Korčula, Croatia. He moved to England, where he worked as an assistant to Henry Moore. He came to Australia in 1975 to do a bust of Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, and liked the place so much he arranged to be naturalized in Gough's office. He currently lives in Taiwan. Works Notable works include ''The Mathy'' a bronze statuette awarded to the annual winner of the IFAC Australian Singing Competition and a bust of Alexander Solzhenitsyn that is held at the National Library of Australia. A bronze sculpture of cellist Jacqueline du Pré, by Cherina, was installed at the Kensington Park Community Centre in Kensington, Sydney, in 2018. A bust of Mahatma Gandhi is installed in Shanghai's New Town Central Park New Town Central Park, or Hongqiao New Town Central Park, is a 130,000-square-meter park located at 2238 Yan'an Xi Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabonne Shire
Cabonne Council is a local government area in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Mitchell Highway and the Broken Hill railway line, partly surrounding the City of Orange. The administrative centre is located at Molong. As at the , the population of the Shire was estimated to be 13,860. More than half of the businesses in the region, being 858 of 1683, are classified as part of the agricultural sector. The mayor of the Cabonne Council is Cr. Kevin Beatty, an independent politician. Towns and localities The towns and localities in the Cabonne Council area are: Demographics Council Current composition and election method Cabonne Shire Council is composed of nine Councillors elected proportionally as a single ward. All Councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The Mayor is elected by the Councillors at the first meeting of the council. The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo Paterson
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include " Clancy of the Overflow" (1889), "The Man from Snowy River" (1890) and "Waltzing Matilda" (1895), regarded widely as Australia's unofficial national anthem. Early life Andrew Barton Paterson was born at the property "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a Scottish immigrant from Lanarkshire, and Australian-born Rose Isabella Barton, related to the future first Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton. Paterson's family lived on the isolated Buckinbah Station near Yeoval NSW until he was five when his father lost his wool clip in a flood and was forced to sell up. When P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabonne Council
Cabonne Council is a local government area in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Mitchell Highway and the Broken Hill railway line, partly surrounding the City of Orange. The administrative centre is located at Molong. As at the , the population of the Shire was estimated to be 13,860. More than half of the businesses in the region, being 858 of 1683, are classified as part of the agricultural sector. The mayor of the Cabonne Council is Cr. Kevin Beatty, an independent politician. Towns and localities The towns and localities in the Cabonne Council area are: Demographics Council Current composition and election method Cabonne Shire Council is composed of nine Councillors elected proportionally as a single ward. All Councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The Mayor is elected by the Councillors at the first meeting of the council. The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molong–Dubbo Railway Line
The Molong–Dubbo railway line is an inactive railway line in western New South Wales, Australia. It branched off the Broken Hill line at Molong and paralleled the Main West line before rejoining it at Dubbo. The line was designed with gentler grades than the steeper section of the Main Western line via Wellington, but this resulted in it taking a meandering course (131 km in length for a point-to point distance of 85 km). The line is particularly scenic, and comprised several steel bridges and some significant engineering works. The New South Wales Government Railways had intentions for it to become the mainline to Dubbo. The line was approved in 1916, but the First World War saw its construction delayed until 1920. It opened in 1925 with expectations of high traffic as ten crossing loops and significant attended passenger station facilities and sophisticated train control and an automatic signalling systems were provided; however, the line never operated to its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington, New South Wales
Wellington is a city in the Central Western Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia, located at the junction of the Wambuul Macquarie and Bell Rivers. It is within the local government area of Dubbo Regional Council. The city is northwest of Sydney on the Mitchell Highway and Main Western Railway, and 50 km southeast of Dubbo, the main centre of the Central Western Slopes region. Wellington was the second European settlement west of the Blue Mountains, first established as a convict establishment in 1823. History Aboriginal history The area now known as Wellington lies on the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri people. The 'Wambuul' (Macquarie River) was an important source of sustenance for this widespread Aboriginal group united by kinship and a common language. Surviving evidence in the Wellington area of the occupation by the Wiradjuri people prior to European contact includes rock shelters with archaeological deposits, a carved tree, scarred trees, open camp sites, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon County, New South Wales
Gordon County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. The Macquarie River The Macquarie River - Wambuul is part of the Macquarie– Barwon catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is one of the main inland rivers in New South Wales, Australia. The river rises in the central highlands of New South Wales near the ... is the north-eastern boundary. Gordon County was named in honour of George Hamilton Gordon, Fourth Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860). Parishes within this county A full list of parishes found within this county; their current LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows: References {{reflist Counties of New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central West (New South Wales)
The Central West is a region of New South Wales, Australia. The region is geographically in central and eastern New South Wales, in the area west of the Blue Mountains, which are west of Sydney. It has an area of .Central West Region - the agricultural heart of New South Wales website of New South Wales Department of State and Regional Development, accessed 12 November 2006 The region also includes the sub-region known as the , located in the eastern part of the region. The region known as the Orana, which includes the area surrounding |
New South Wales
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