| Binalong New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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 Central Binalong looking towards the post office and the Hotel Binalong | |||||||||||||||
  Binalong | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°40′00″S148°39′00″E / 34.66667°S 148.65000°E /-34.66667; 148.65000 | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 302 (UCL2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2584 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 481 m (1,578 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Yass Valley Shire | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Southern Tablelands | ||||||||||||||
| County | Harden | ||||||||||||||
| Parish | Binalong | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Goulburn | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Eden-Monaro | ||||||||||||||
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Binalong (/baɪnəlɒŋ/BY-na-long) is a village in theSouthern Tablelands ofNew South Wales, Australia, 37 km north-west ofYass inYass Valley Shire.[2][3] At the2016 census, Binalong and the surrounding area had a population of 543.[4]
Theindigenous people of the district were part of theNgunnawal people. The first Europeans recorded as visiting the area were the exploratory party ofHamilton Hume in 1821.
The name of the town is believed to derive either from an Aboriginal word meaning "under the hills, surrounded by hills, or towards a high place"[5] or fromBennelong, the name of a noted Aboriginal Man.
Binalong lay beyond the border of theNineteen Counties which was the formal legal extent of European settlement in New South Wales. However,squatters settled in the district prior to the formal establishment of squatting districts in 1839.
From 1847 there was a court of petty sessions. The same year a local entrepreneur applied successfully to the Commissioner of Police for a grant to build an inn to provide accommodation and victuals for the visiting magistrate and police witnesses, and the Swan Inn was established close to the courthouse. The town was gazetted in 1850.
In 1853,Cobb and Co was established in Melbourne as a coaching company, and upon eventually expanding their operations into New South Wales, entered into an agreement with the Swan Inn to provide staging services for coaches, drivers and passengers travelling along the adjacent road to the goldfields atLambing Flat or Young. The town flourished as a coaching stop. The Swan Inn became known as "The Cobb and Co".
The public school was established in 1861. Theoriginal railway station opened in 1875[6] and was replaced by thecurrent structure on an island platform when the railway was deviated and duplicated in 1916. The 1916 signal box is now closed. Theoriginal station remains as a private house on the road to Yass.
The Swan Inn closed following the building of the railway and the establishment of other hostelries closer to the railway station. It reopened in the mid-1980s as a restaurant and continues under the name The Black Swan. A motel was built on the adjoining block of land.
In March 2025, a Binalong cafe made international news for their fundraising efforts for humanitarian aid in Ukraine, including from a self-declared "tariff" on U.S. owned products.[7]
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