Dangarsleigh is a rural locality and minor trigonometrical station about 11 km south east of

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, New South Wales. The locality is at an altitude of about 1,020 metres on the Northern Tablelands in the

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region of New South Wales, Australia. The name Dangarsleigh commemorates the surveyor and pastoralist Henry Dangar's name. It is within the

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and

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. At the junction of Dangarsleigh Road there is a

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erected by the Perrot family in memory of their oldest son, Harold, who was killed at Passchendale Ridge in the

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. A dirt road leads to the Dangars or Dangarsleigh Falls, at which Salisbury Waters drops 120 metres into the gorge below. The Kellys Plains-Dangarsleigh

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(CWA) meets once a month in the CWA Rooms, Dangarsleigh Road. In the (held on 8 August 2006) there were 97 people usually resident in Dangarsleigh, 47.4% were males and 52.6% were females.

Dangars Falls

Dangars Falls are located 16 km south-south-east of

, on Salisbury Waters. They have a total fall of 120 metres. These falls were previously named Gostwick Falls, and are also known as Dangarsleigh Falls. They are in the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, at the head of Dangars Gorge. These falls are often confused with Dangar Falls, near Dorrigo, about 125 km to the east, along the Waterfall Way.

Heritage listings

Dangarsleigh has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * 755 Dangarsleigh Road: Dangarsleigh War Memorial

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Dangars Falls

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