Lucknow is a locality in the Central West region of

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

, Australia, on the

Mitchell Highway Mitchell Highway is an outback state highway located in the central and south western regions of Queensland and the northern and central western regions of New South Wales in Australia. The southern part of Mitchell Highway forms part of t ...

and adjacent to the regional centre of

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. The locality is in the City of Orange local government area, west of the state capital,

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. At the , Lucknow had a population of 297.

History

Lucknow (pronounced Luck now) was once a property of statesman

William Wentworth William Charles Wentworth (August 179020 March 1872) was an Australian statesman, pastoralist, explorer, newspaper editor, lawyer, politician and author, who became one of the wealthiest and most powerful figures in colonial New South Wales. He ...

and was the site of the second major gold discovery in Australia. Shortly after the discovery of gold, he sold it to Australia's first gold mining company, the Wentworth Gold Field Company, of which he was a director.

Heritage listings

At 4570-4578

, the Wentworth and Reform Gold Mines is heritage listed.

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Towns in New South Wales City of Orange (New South Wales) Mining towns in New South Wales {{CentralWestNSW-geo-stub