Boggabri

Postcode: 2382

Boggabri is a small town in north-western New South Wales, Australia in Narrabri Shire Council, near Gunnedah and Narrabri. Its population lies around 1000. The name Boggabri comes from Gamilaraay bagaaybaraay, literally "having creeks". The same "creek" element is found in the name of Boggabilla.

Boggabri's main tourist attraction is Gin's Leap, so-called after a story of an Aboriginal girl who jumped from the cliff while trying to escape a group of men in the 17th or 18th century.

The town is served by the daily Countrylink Xplorer service between Sydney and Moree.

Boggabri is basically a town servicing the surrounding area which is given over to wheat, wool and cotton. There are large grain-holding facilities and huge, but as yet unexploited, coal reserves under nearby Leards Forest. The town has a modern motel, two pubs and a caravan park.

The townsite was surveyed in 1859, gazetted in 1860 and the first land sales proceeded in 1861 with the first hotel being one of the earliest additions. At the time Gulligal was the main local settlement and a key postal location but the floods of 1864 virtually destroyed it.

By 1866 the population of Boggabri was about 50. A bridge over Cox's Creek was built c.1867,. a post office was established in 1870, a police station and school in 1873 and a general purpose church building in 1877. The railway arrived in 1882.

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