Wingham

Postcode: 2429

Wingham is a town of 4,600 people on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia in the City of Greater Taree; about 4 hours drive north of Sydney; about 335km north of Sydney. This town was named after a village in England also called Wingham and was proclaimed a village in 1844, making it the oldest settlement in the district. Its location was chosen because supply boats could not proceed any further up the Manning River.

There are four schools in Wingham. Wingham Public School is located in Murray Road, and is known to the locals as Murray Road Public School. St Joseph's Catholic School is located between the Catholic Church and Prebytery on the southern side of Central Park, and Wingham Brush Public School is around the corner between the eastern side of Central Park and Wingham Brush. Wingham High School is located three blocks north-east of Central Park, and has an extensive agricultural science department, owning 3 properties and a feedlot.

Wingham is the gateway to the Barrington Tops, and also to the Ellenborough Falls on the Bulga Plateau, the second longest single drop waterfall in the Southern Hemisphere. The Bank Hotel, formerly the local branch of the Westpac Bank, featured on the Seven Network's Sydney Weekender with Mike Witney in 1999.

About 10 km south along the Wingham-Tinonee road, is the small village of Tinonee, which was proclaimed in 1854. It has the John Knox Presbyterian church, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia, where services were held in Gaelic until the turn of the 19th century. There are some craft shops, and also a llama visitors centre, where visitors can feed and pat the llamas.

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