Narrandera Area Attractions Directory : Historical Sites and Heritage Locations
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A beautiful historical home named 'Yo Merry', is the site of Antique Corner and Objects D'art. Delightfully restored and set in a spacious garden area. This attraction is ideal for both history lovers and antique enthusiasts. Antique corner is well known for its fine and quality antiques, original oil paintings and objects d'art. Visitors are most welcome.
Available also are brass fittings and turned wood pieces for restoration work.
The track consists of three loops - short loop (3kms), Lake Talbot loop (7kms) and the Murrumbidgee loop (11kms) and follows a scenic route around Lake Talbot and the majestic Murrumbidgee River.
The track was designed to take advantage of the natural features such as rocky hills, gullies, high river banks, sandy beaches, irrigation channels and in some cases rough vehicular tracks. The round journey is 11kms long and takes about 4 hours to complete. The track passes across the top end of ou...
The Hankinson Fountain, located in the Narrandera Memorial Gardens, is a ceramic fountain made by Royal Doulton. There are only two of these fountains known to be in existence, the other one being in Pakistan.
In the foreground of St Mel's Catholic Church. The Commemorative Wall recognises the Poet-Priest John O'Brien of 'Around the Boree Log' fame. More information about John O'Brien and his life in Narrandera is available from Narrandera Visitors Centre.
The Lake Talbot look-out provides a scenic view of Lake Talbot, the main irrigation canal, and the surrounding nature reserve. Walking tracks commence from the lookout and continue around the lake. Lake Talbot itself is an artificial lake, only 1.5km from the town centre, which is ideal for boating, canoeing, water skiing etc. The lake adjoins the Lake Talbot swimming complex and Lake Talbot Caravan Park.
Lake Talbot is the scene, from time to time, of the Australian and NSW skiing titles. Eac...
At Narrandera Park you will find Northern Territory bottle trees, sports areas, a miniature zoo featuring kangaroos, emus, birds and ducks as well as the Tiger Moth Memorial. There is an 'Active Australia' walking trail around the park.
The park includes a picnic area with facilities and amenities including electric barbecues, toilets and the Narrandera Tourist Information Centre.
The Tiger Moth Memorial is of the No. 8 Elementary Flying School. In August 1940, an air school was established ...
This little museum situated in a century-old building was established in 1968 and holds some extremely important items. These include a first-rate yesteryear Telecom equipment display, a set of silver ingots marking 1,000 years of monarchy, an extensive and valuable worldwide collection of shells. The celebrated scarlet coloured merino cloak worn by New South Wales Governor and wool pioneer John Macarthur, is also on display and is the only one of its kind in the world, made from the first bal...
The Two Foot Heritage Tour is a self guided walking tour of central Narrandera.
Pick up your free map of the tour from the Narrandera Visitor's Centre and spend a leisurely hour (or two) wandering the streets and taking in some of the earliest buildings of Narrandera. You'll see what remains of the Hit and Miss Inn, the site of the first church service and the earliest court sittings and a great deal of drinking!
The township has been declared an Urban Conservation by the National Trust.
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