Bective is a locality in
New South Wales
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, located on the
Oxley Highway
Oxley Highway is a rural highway in New South Wales, Australia, linking Nevertire, Gilgandra, Coonabarabran, Tamworth, New South Wales, Tamworth, and Walcha, New South Wales, Walcha to Port Macquarie, on the coast of the Tasman Sea. It was name ...
about 18 kilometres WNW of
Tamworth.
The name originally appears at the name of a large pastoral property near the
Peel River in the 1860s.
The name is derived from a town near Dublin, or an abbey located there, or from Lord Bective, a notable British cabinet minister of the era whose title name derives from that place.
Populated places in New South Wales
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