Appin

Postcode: 2560

Appin is a town in the eastern part of New South Wales. It is situated about 16 kilometres south from Cambelltown and 35 kilometres north west from Wollongong. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 14,923 people.

Appin is the birthplace of John Fuller (aka Dan Morgan)

Appin was named in 1811 by Governor Macquarie after a small coastal village in Argyleshire in Scotland where his wife was born. It was the fifth village in the colony. The first local land grant was made that year to Deputy Commissary General William Broughton. He called his 1000 acres Lachlan Vale after Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

The townsite was surveyed in 1834. It is now hard to imagine that there was a time from the 1830s through to the construction of the South Coast railway in the 1880s when Appin was one of the main staging posts for people heading to the Illawarra. It was during this time that the Royal Hotel was built and people like the famous letter writer Rachel Henning lived in the area.

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