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45-61 Reid St
Wilcannia NSW 2836
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Wilcannia is a small town with a
population of 688, located within the Central Darling Shire in north western New South Wales. If there is one great, and largely undisturbed, port on the mighty
Darling River - it is Wilcannia. Cross the
bridge driving from
Sydney to
Broken Hill and turn either to your right or left when you enter the town and you will be amazed at the richness of the architecture.Here are the remnants of a once-important inland port. Some of the town's historic treasures include the old centre-lift
bridge which was built in 1896 and is now classified by the National Trust, the beautiful 1880
post office and its attached residence, the Athenaeum Library (1883) and the impressive courthouse (1880), police station (1881), and the police residence (1880), which were all built of locally quarried
sandstone and designed by James Barnet. In the right seasons the area near the
bridge is ideal for picnics.Wilcannia is located 965 km northwest of
Sydney via the Great Western,
Mitchell and Barrier Highways. It is on the very edge of the New South Wales desert experiencing only 252 mm of rainfall per annum and often much of that rain will fall in violent, if short, desert storms.