A community located in an area of fertile country on the edges of Pilliga scrubland. It is a regional hub for wheat growing and sheep and wool.

Where is it?: Coonamble is 575 km north west of Sydney; 164 km north of Dubbo; 99 km north of Gilgandra; 117 km north west of Coonabarabran; 118 km south west of Narrabri.

Heritage features: Warrana Weir; Heritage features: Historical Museum (old police station - 1886); Post Office (1881); Zobel Art Gallery (old Cobb & Co waiting room); National Bank Building (1913)


Pilliga Pottery consists of a mudbrick workshop and showrooms and a bush cafe serving Devonshire teas. They are open seven days a week, Ph (02) 6842 2239. Head north-east towards Narrabri on the Newell Highway and take the signposted left 23 km from Coonabarabran.

Origin of name: thought to mean 'full of bullock's dung', though the last surviving full-blood Aborigine of the area asserted that it meant 'full of dirt'.