Exeter, New South Wales

Exeter
New South Wales
Exeter central business district
Exeter is located in New South Wales
Exeter
Exeter
Coordinates34°37′S 150°19′E / 34.617°S 150.317°E / -34.617; 150.317
Population419 (UCL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)2579
Elevation723 m (2,372 ft)
Location
LGA(s)Wingecarribee Shire
RegionSouthern Highlands
CountyCamden
ParishSutton Forest
State electorate(s)Goulburn
Federal division(s)
Localities around Exeter:
Sutton Forest Sutton Forest Werai
Canyonleigh Exeter Werai
Penrose Bundanoon Meryla

Exeter (/ɛksɪtər/) is a village in the Southern Highlands district of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. It has a station on the Main Southern railway line south of Sydney.

History

The village was founded by James Badgery, who was born near the County Town of Exeter in Devon, England. He arrived in New South Wales in 1799, and by 1812 was operating ‘Exeter Farms’ near Bringelly. His fortunes prospered and he explored further south arriving in what is now Exeter in 1819. In 1821 Badgery took up a 500-acre land grant on the site of the present village calling the new property Spring Grove. His son Henry continued expansion in the locality and by 1841 there was a flourishing community on the various Badgery properties. Eleven households with 79 people appear on the NSW Census of that year. Their principal property, Vine Lodge, accommodated 33 residents, including 13 convicts and ex-convicts. Following the subdivision of Vine Lodge around 1888, the name of Exeter came into being in 1890 for the present village.

There was a railway accident at Exeter in fog on a single line on 13 March 1914, killing 14 people, when the Temora Mail collided with the locomotive of a goods train which had not completed backing into a siding to allow the Mail train to pass. This is NSW's third worst railway accident.

Population

At the 2016 census, Exeter had a population of 949.[2] At the 2021 census, there were 1,087 people living at Exeter.[3]

Heritage listings

Exeter has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

School

Schools in Exeter:

  • Exeter Public School

References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Exeter (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Exeter (NSW)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 11 July 2017. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ "2021 Exeter (NSW), Census All persons QuickStats". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Exeter Railway Station group". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H01142. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC BY 4.0 licence.
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