About Wingham
A river town at the head of navigation, with cedar, timber and dairy in its bones, and one of the best-kept collections of heritage buildings in the region.
Around Central Park, the square at its heart, stand the 1884 post office, the 1907 School of Arts, the Federation-era police station, the Georgian Revival courthouse and the Memorial Town Hall, opened in 1923 in memory of the district’s fallen.
How the town got here
Wingham sits at the head of navigation on the Manning River: supply boats could get no further, so the government marked out a village here. It took its name from Wingham in Kent, England.
Allotments were not made until 1854, and the town has been finding its feet, and its heritage, ever since.
1844
The government proclaims a village at the head of navigation, the first on the Manning River.
1889
A municipality, on cedar, timber and dairy, with a river port doing the work.
5 February 1913
The first train arrives. The North Coast line still stops in town.
Around town
A few things worth knowing
Author Di Morrissey, one of Australia’s best-selling novelists, was born in Wingham in 1948. Central Park carries a plaque marking the 1907 rugby match that helped spark the formation of rugby league in New South Wales.
The Manning Valley Historical Society keeps its rooms and museum in town, and the year runs on the showground: the rodeo, the Wingham Show, Beef Week, the Scottish festival, the music festival and the campdraft.
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Photos, via Wikimedia Commons: Manning River by Grahamec (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Memorial Town Hall by Bronwyn Hanna, NSW State Heritage Register (CC BY 4.0) · Post Office by Gardener54 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Central Park by Chris Sherlock (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Vampire memorial by Blarneytherinosaur (CC BY 3.0) · Wingham Brush by Peter Woodard (CC0) · Railway station by Abesty (CC0) · Wirths’ circus arriving in town, State Library of New South Wales (no known copyright restrictions).