Narrandera Travel Guide

This agreeable, gracious rural centre, with its historic buildings and cedar-lined streets, is located in the Riverina region of NSW, 562 km south-west of Sydney via the Hume and Sturt Highways and 152 m above sea-level. A town of 4649 people it has been declared an urban conservation area by the National Trust. The area was occupied by the Wiradjuri Aborigines prior to white settlement. The place name is said to derive from a local Wiradhuri clan called the 'Narrungdera'. This word in turn is said to mean 'jew-lizard', 'place of the goanna or lizard', or 'caught frill lizard'. Narrandera has a golf course, north of town, and hosts a number of festivals. The Camellia Show is in August, the TREE-mendous Festival in October, the Agricultural Show in September and the John O'Brien Folk Festival in mid-March.