Burra

Postcode: 2620

Burra is an Australian district of rural smallholdings lying 20 kilometers to the south of Queanbeyan, New South Wales in Palerang Council, postcode 2620. Its bounds might be considered to be those of the catchment area of the Burra Creek, whose headwaters are in the Tinderry Nature Reserve, and which flows through the centre of the Burra Valley to join the waters of the Queanbeyan River at the Googong Reservoir. Nearby small settlements include Royalla, Williamsdale and Michelago to the west and south. Urila Valley is accessed from the Burra Valley and lies to the east. Burra is also a commutable distance Australia's capital city Canberra.

The Ngarigo people originally inhabited Burra as part of their wider country lands extending south to the Australian Alps. Amongst the early settlers, the region was known as "The Burra", possibly from a local aboriginal word for Boomerang: "Berra". The first grazing and clearing of the region began in the 1830-60s and farms were established at the Warm Corner, KT Park, Burra Station, London Bridge and Lagoon. By the 1920s the local population had become large enough to support two competing cricket clubs, one at the Burra park, the other near Urila. Subdivision into smaller blocks began in the 1960s as Canberra's population expanded and has created the local regions such as those surrounding Candy Road, Badgerry Road and Plumbers Road. Today the majority of the valley has been subdivided in this way creating a large but dispersed population of several hundred.

The Burra Valley lies at the northern tip of the Monaro tablelands, and shares with it some of the cooler climate of that region. Temperatures are on average two or three degrees Celsius below those in Canberra and Queanbeyan. Light falls of snow are not uncommon in the winter months.

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