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From: "Tony Moore" <>
Subject: Re: Woollomol or Woolomol near Tamworth
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:38:09 +0800
In-Reply-To: <DuBf8.104$RH.8780@ozemail.com.au>


Dear Trisha,

According to the NSW Geographic Names Register extract below,
Woolomol is at Oxley Vale

http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/geog/search/gnr_websearch.display

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES REGISTER EXTRACT
1st March 2002
REFERENCE: 66278
PLACENAME: WOOLOMOL HILLS
DESIGNATION: RIDGE
STATUS: ASSIGNED 3rd October 1969
LOCAL COUNCIL: PARRY
APPROX. AGD66 LAT: -31 04 00
APPROX. AGD66 LONG: 150 54 00
APPROX. GDA94 LAT: -31 03 54
APPROX. GDA94 LONG: 150 54 04
AGD66 TOPO MAP: TAMWORTH
1:100000 MAP: TAMWORTH 9035
PARISH: TAMWORTH
COUNTY: INGLIS
DESCRIPTION: A ridge of hills at Oxley Vale extending south east for
about 2 miles to the northern boundary of Tamworth.
© Geographical Names Board of New South Wales

If you put "Oxley Vale" in http://www.google.com
you get 162 hits

Since it's in the Parry Shire Council Area, you can access the council at:
http://www.parry.nsw.gov.au/
Parry Shire Council
468-472 Peel St (PO Box 441)
TAMWORTH NSW 2340
Phone: 02 6766 2908
Fax: 02 6766 8514
Email:

May I suggest that you contact the shire library which will hold the archives
that may be of use to you.
Library e-mail is same as Council:

Cheers.

Tony Moore

(Balgo, Western Australia)


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On 1 Mar 2002 at 12:43, Trisha wrote:

> Thanks to all of you kind people who replied (especially Bill), I now have
> much more information on poor old John McEWEN - he died in 1910 at
> Woollomol near Tamworth (which appears to be called Woolomol now - anyone
> know anything about this place?) Trisha
>
>
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