Buangor is a town in western

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. It is about west of the state capital,

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. At the 2021

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, Buangor had a population of 112. Buangor Post Office opened on 25 March 1863 The town has a primary school, which was built in 1878, and had an enrolment of 19 students in 2011. Buangor railway station, on the

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, was closed in 1981. The area was known as the Parish of Woodnaccerak (also spelled Woodnaggerak) in the

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and was established in the 1830s, and is remembered by a north–south road named Woodnaggerak in the district. The local grazing property "Woodnaggerak" was the home of General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White, KCB,

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, KCVO, DSO,

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1920–23 to which he commuted at weekends from

. He was recalled to the role in early 1940, until killed soon after in the Canberra air disaster.

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