Ellenborough is a parish and village straddling the

Oxley Highway Oxley Highway is a rural highway in New South Wales, Australia, linking Nevertire, Gilgandra, Coonabarabran, Tamworth, and Walcha to Port Macquarie, on the coast of the Tasman Sea. It was named to commemorate John Oxley, the first European t ...

and the Ellenborough River, less than one kilometre south of its confluence with the

Hastings River Hastings River (Birpai: ''Doongang''), an open and trained intermediate wave dominated barrier estuary, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast districts of New South Wales, Australia. Course and features Hastings River rise ...

. The village is about 33 km west of Wauchope and approximately 71 km east of Walcha. The boundaries are within the

Port Macquarie-Hastings Council Port Macquarie-Hastings Council is a local government area in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is located adjacent to the Hastings River, the Pacific Highway, the Oxley Highway and the North Coast railway ...

and

Macquarie County Macquarie County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales, Australia. It is bordered to the north by the Apsley River, and to the south by the Manning River. It includes Port Macquarie Port Macquarie is a coastal town in the ...

. The village was named by the surveyor and explorer, John Oxley, after

Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, (16 November 1750 – 13 December 1818), was an English judge. After serving as a member of parliament and Attorney General, he became Lord Chief Justice. Early life Law was born at Great Salkeld, in Cum ...

(1750–1818), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. The area has a diverse range of birds including bowerbirds, king parrots, kingfishers, honeyeaters and

wedge-tailed eagle The wedge-tailed eagle (''Aquila audax'') is the largest bird of prey in the continent of Australia. It is also found in southern New Guinea to the north and is distributed as far south as the state of Tasmania. Adults of this species have lon ...

s. Native animals include

kangaroo Kangaroos are four marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern ...

s, wallabies,

echidna Echidnas (), sometimes known as spiny anteaters, are quill-covered monotremes (egg-laying mammals) belonging to the family Tachyglossidae . The four extant species of echidnas and the platypus are the only living mammals that lay eggs and the ...

koala The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear (''Phascolarctos cinereus''), is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the w ...

s and possums. Goannas, turtles and platypus may also be seen and there are fish in the river. Big Nellie Hakea ('' Hakea archaeoides'') and Tree Guinea Flower (''

Hibbertia ''Hibbertia'', commonly known as guinea flowers, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Dilleniaceae. They are usually shrubs with simple leaves and usually yellow flowers with five sepals and five petals. There are about 400 species, mo ...

hexandra'') are threatened flora species that are growing in the region. This is mostly an agricultural region with dairy farming and beef cattle breeding the main industries. Heritage items of significance in the village include: Ellenborough Cemetery and the police station along with the large trees growing there. A camping reserve is situated in the north eastern corner of the village, near the Hastings River. The Ellenborough Public School has now been closed. The Long Flat village which is about 4 km east of Ellenborough has a public school, hotel, recreation ground and general store. The census does not record Long Flat's population, however the

Electoral district of Oxley Oxley is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. History Oxley was created in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, replacing Gloucester and Raleigh, and elected thr ...

records show that 296 people voted there in 2007. Long Flat voting in the

Division of Lyne The Division of Lyne is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed ...

recorded 286 voters there in 2007.AEC POLLING PLACE - LONG FLAT
Retrieved on 9-3-2009 Ellenborough did not have a polling venue for these elections.

Notable

* Lewis (koala)

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