Trewilga

Trewilga is a bounded rural locality in Parkes Shire, Central New South Wales. Trewilga is about 401 km (249 mi) west-northwest of New South Wales' capital city of Sydney. The postcode for Trewilga NSW is 2869.[5] The area was opened up in the Australian Gold Rush, with a town of four streets by four streets gazetted in 1889 and a railway station.

Trewilga
New South Wales
Trewilga
Coordinates32°47′11″S 148°13′47″E
Established1889
Postcode(s)2869
Time zoneAEST (UTC+10)
 • Summer (DST)AEDT (UTC+11)
Location
  • 401 km (249 mi) WNW of Sydney
  • 79 km (49 mi) SSW of Dubbo
  • 41 km (25 mi) N of Parkes
LGA(s)Parkes Shire
CountyNarromine[1]
ParishMingelo[1]
State electorate(s)Orange[2]
Federal Division(s)Calare[3]
FootnotesCoordinates:[1]
Distances:[4]

Today mining remains an important feature of the community with twenty mines in the district.[6] The area is however, predominantly agricultural and Trewilga Railway Station closed in the 1970s.

Goobang National Park lies to the east of the suburb.

References

  1. "Trewilga". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  2. "Orange". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  3. "Calare". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  4. "Travelmate". travelmate.com.au. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  5. Trewilga Post Code.
  6. Downes, P, NSW Metallic Mineral Occurrence Database. (NSW Department Of Mineral Resources , 1997)
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