Bendick Murrell is a town in the
South West Slopes
The South Western Slopes, also known as the South West Slopes, is a region predominantly in New South Wales, Australia. It covers the lower inland slopes of the Great Dividing Range, extending from north of Dunedoo through central NSW and into ...
region of
New South Wales
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, Australia.
Locality
The town is adjacent to the
Olympic Highway
Olympic Highway is a rural road in the central western and south-eastern Riverina regions of New South Wales, Australia. The highway services rural communities and links Hume Highway with Mid-Western Highway and provides part of an alterna ...
within the
Hilltops local government area, west of the state capital,
Sydney. The town is on the
Blayney-Demondrille railway line. At the , Bendick Murrell and the surrounding area had a population of 155,
but had dropped to 143 in
2021
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.
Name
The name of the town is
Aboriginal in origin, meaning "
plain
In geography, a plain is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless. Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands ...
" and was originally given a local
pastoral station
A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music (pastorale) that depicts ...
.
Services
A provisional school was established in 1883 and the existing school has occupied the same site since 1894.
A receiving post office was opened in 1887.
Bendick Murrell railway station opened in 1888, originally as Marengo. It was renamed Bendick Murrell in 1889. The original station was further south than the current location as the station was relocated in 1915 to allow for the expansion of grain loading facilities.
References
External links
Towns in New South Wales
Hilltops Council
Blayney–Demondrille railway line
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