Tamworth Tourism, NSW Australia
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Tamworth Fast Facts
- State: NSW
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- Famous for/as: Country Music Festival
- Population: 47,595
- Language: English
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- Pincode: 2340
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Tamworth Info
- Cnr Peel and Murray Streets
Tamworth, NSW 2340 - Phone: (02) 6767 5300
- Fax: (02) 6755 4312
- tourism@tamworth.nsw.gov.au
Tamworth, Australia Overview
The country music capital of Australia is 420 km west of Sydney. Tamworth is a welcoming country city and flourishing commercial centre for the region. It hosts one of the world's biggest events, the annual ten-day Tamworth Country Music Festival. At any time of the year, you can walk the Heritage Trail and uncover Tamworth's historic buildings or boot-scoot through the Hands of Fame Park, which contains the handprints of about 200 country music stars. The mighty 12-metre-high Golden Guitar in town is a highlight for most visitors. Check out the memorabilia at the Big Golden Guitar Tourist Centre.Don't miss the National Professional Rodeo in January and Hats Off to Country Festival in July.
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Tamworth, Australia History
The Kamilaroi people, from whose language comes the word "budgerigar", inhabited the area before European contact. John Oxley passed through the Peel Valley in 1818 and described it as "it would be impossible to find a finer or more luxuriant country than its waters...No place in this world can afford more advantages to the industrious settler than this extensive vale". In 1831, the first sheep stations and cattle stations were formed, and in the same year the Australian Agricultural Company (AAC) was granted a lease of 127,000 hectares of land at Goonoo Goonoo, south of the present location of Tamworth, extending to present-day Calala.
In te 1830s, a company town began to develop on the Peel's southwest bank, the present site of West Tamworth. In 1850, a public town was gazetted on the opposite side of the river from the existing settlement. This town became the main town, called "Tamworth" after Tamworth, Staffordshire, represented at the time in parliament by Robert Peel. The town prospered, and was reached by the railway in 1878.
On 9 November 1888, Tamworth became the first location in the Southern Hemisphere to have electric street lighting, giving the city the title of "First City of Light".