Lowe Parish, Napier County Landscape. Lowe Parish is a

civil Parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Napier County, New South Wales Napier County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. Napier County is named in honour of Field Marshal Robert Cornelius Napier, First Baron Napier of Magdala (1810–1890). Parishes within this county A full list of parishe ...

. The parish lies on the

Coolaburragundy River Coolaburragundy River, a perennial stream that is part of the Talbragar catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Orana district of New South Wales, Australia. The river rises on the south-western slopes of the Liverpool ...

, and its economy is based on

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History

Before

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an settlement, the surrounding area was inhabited by the

Gamilaroi The Gamilaroi, also known as Gomeroi, Kamilaroi, Kamillaroi and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose lands extend from New South Wales to southern Queensland. They form one of the four largest Indigenous nations in Austr ...

and

Wiradjuri The Wiradjuri people (; ) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales, united by common descent through kinship and shared traditions. They survived as skilled hunter-fisher-gatherers, in family groups or clans, a ...

peoples. Allan Cunningham was the first

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explorer to visit the area, in 1823 while travelling to Pandora's Pass (located within the parish) and across the Warrumbungle ranges to the

Liverpool Plains The Liverpool Plains are an extensive agricultural area covering about of the north-western slopes of New South Wales in Australia. These plains are a region of prime agricultural land bounded to the east by the Great Dividing Range, to the s ...

References

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