Bandulla, New South Wales is a rural locality and a civil Parish of Gowen County[1] in central west New South Wales located at 31°49'11.7"S 149°07'04.2"E.
The civil parish is on the Castlereagh River and the town of Mendooran, New South Wales is on the opposite bank.
History
editThe Bandulla, New South Wales was inhabited by the Wiradjuri tribe before white settlement. The first European to visit the area was surveyor John Evans who came as close as 10 kilometres in 1815. Two years later it was John Oxley's group that passed through the area while conducting one of the first inland expeditions.
References
edit- ^ Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W , Map of the County of Napier, Central Division, N.S.W. (Published Sydney : Dept. of Lands, 1964).