Lilian's Tree

Friday 4 April  D -  DUNEDOO (Co. Lincoln) 32°01’S 149°24’E  (Wikipedia has the county as Bligh.) From the Aboriginal meaning swan. Dunedoo is 40km north of Gulgong on the Talbragar River. It was also known as Bolaro until 1909. 

Thursday 3 April    C – COONABARABRAN ,   (Co. Gowen) 31°16’S 149°16’E From the Aboriginal meaning Inquisitive person. Settled in the 1840s, Coonabarabran is on the Castlereagh River. Close to both the Warrumbungle National Park and the Siding Spring Observatory. An armillary sundial, presented on 16 October 2009, to celebrate 35 years of the Angle-Australian Telescope.                                                                     Warrumbungle National Park. Siding Spring Observatory. COOTAMUNDRA  (Co. Harden) 34°38’S 148°02’E From the Aboriginal meaning turtles. Settled in 1830s. Once home to Sir Donald Bradman, an Australian cricket player.   COWRA,    (Co. Bathurst) 33°59’S 148°41’E From the Aboriginal meaning rocks. Settled in 1833 by John Grant....

Wednesday 2 April   B –    BARELLAN (Co. Cooper) 34°17’S 146°34’E Barellan was surveyed in 1908 and is a small country town in New South Wales. The main industries are antimony mining, wheat, sheep and fruit. Evonne Goolagong Cawley, an Indigenous tennis player, who won Wimbledon in 1971 and 1980 lived there for a time. BARRABA (Co. Darling) 30°23’S 150°37’E Barraba is on the Manilla River, 89km from Tamworth. A pretty town with beautiful street art.

  Tuesday 1 April   A –  ARMIDALE (Co. Sandon) 30°31’S 151°40’E Armidale is a large city in the New England area of New South Wales it was founded in 1839 by George James Macdonald. Armidale is a cathedral city, being the seat of the Anglican  and Roman   Catholic bishops   of Armidale. St Peter's Anglican Cathedral, which replaced the original St Peter's Church, was designed by the Canadian architect   John Horbury Hunt, who also designed Booloominbah at the University of New England . St Peter's Cathedral opened for worship in 1875 and the tower was added in 1938. The Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Joseph was dedicated on 12 December 1919.It is also a university city.