Maude

Postcode: 2711

Maude is a village on the north bank of the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales, Australia. It is in between Hay and Balranald in Hay Shire. It is located 55 kilometres downstream from Hay and 25 kilometres upstream from the junction of the Lachlan River with the Murrumbidgee. Maude consists of a General Store, hotel, post office and caravan park. The town is surrounded by market gardens supplied with water from Maude Weir, a popular spot for anglers, looking for yellow belly, redfin and Murray cod.

In the early 1860s the surveyors Adams and Twynam laid out a township on the Pimpampa Reserve. The name ‘Pimpaympa’ was submitted, but it was not approved by the Executive Council; instead they chose the name of ‘Maude’.

During 1939-1940 a weir was erected on the river at Maude by the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Authority. Its purpose was to hold back the winter flow of the Murrumbidgee and thereby permit flushes of water during the summer months to inundate the reed-beds in the vicinity of the Lachlan junction in order to feed stock.

In 1976 the village of Maude consisted of “about five houses”. Public facilities in the town were the Post Office Hotel (usually known as 'the Maude Pub’), a school, recreation oval, service station, tennis courts and a bridge over the Murrumbidgee.

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