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13-540: Newbridge may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Newbridge, New South Wales Newbridge, Victoria England [ edit ] Newbridge, Bath , electoral ward, Somerset Newbridge, Cornwall , three places in Cornwall with the same name Newbridge, East Sussex Newbridge, Isle of Wight Newbridge, North Yorkshire Newbridge, Oxfordshire Newbridge, Wolverhampton ,

26-854: A commercial station that gets most of its programming from 2SM in Sydney. Other electronic media are represented by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with both television and radio broadcasting; and by television stations Prime7 , Nine , and Southern Cross 10 . Two major newspapers are published in the region, the Central Western Daily newspaper is published in Orange and the Western Advocate in Bathurst. Numerous other local papers serve

39-639: A defunct computer hardware company Newbridge Silverware , an Irish maker of homeware etc. See also [ edit ] New Bridge (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Newbridge . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newbridge&oldid=1247832858 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

52-451: A suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands The Newbridge School Ireland [ edit ] Avoca, County Wicklow , a small town, once known as Newbridge Newbridge, County Galway , a village Newbridge, County Kildare , a large town, sometimes known by its Irish name Droichead Nua Northern Ireland [ edit ] Newbridge, County Londonderry , a townland Scotland [ edit ] Newbridge, Edinburgh ,

65-884: A village to the west of Edinburgh Wales [ edit ] Newbridge, Caerphilly (traditionally in Monmouthshire) Newbridge, Ceredigion Newbridge, Wrexham Newbridge-on-Wye , Powys Newbridge-on-Usk , Monmouthshire Bridges [ edit ] Newbridge, River Dart , bridge over the River Dart, Dartmoor in Devon Newbridge, River Thames , a bridge crossing of the River Thames, England Companies [ edit ] NewBridge Bank , headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States Newbridge Networks ,

78-806: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Central West (New South Wales) The Central West is a region in central New South Wales , Australia . The region is situated west of Sydney , which stretches from Lithgow in the east and to as far west as Lake Cargelligo , on the Lachlan River . The Central West is known for its attractions such as the Jenolan Caves , near Oberon and also wineries, as well as rural farmland and natural landscapes. The region includes major towns like, Bathurst , Orange , Mudgee , Lithgow , Parkes and Cowra . It has an area of 63,262 square kilometres (24,426 sq mi). The region also includes

91-442: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Newbridge, New South Wales Newbridge village developed around the railway line and station which was built in 1876. The station was called Back Creek , however, the post office which opened two months later in the same year was called Duramana . To avoid confusion with Duramana on the other side of Bathurst and due to either

104-548: The University of Notre Dame Regional Clinical School . The Central West includes the large regional centres of Bathurst and Orange ; the towns of Cowra , Mudgee , Lithgow and Parkes ; and smaller centres, such as Blayney , Canowindra , Condobolin , Eugowra , Forbes , Grenfell , Gulgong , Kandos , Lake Cargelligo , Millthorpe , Molong , Oberon , Peak Hill , Portland , Rylstone , and Wallerawang . The following local government areas are contained within

117-777: The area that still stand from yesteryear include the Gladstone Hotel (early 1870s), the public school (1877), the original bakehouse (1884), the police station (1890s), the convent (1890), the new post office (1904) and the Catholic Church (1919). On 5 May 2010, a fatal accident occurred 5 km from Newbridge Railway station, involving the Daily XPT and an excavator. Newbridge has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: 33°34′S 149°22′E  /  33.567°S 149.367°E  / -33.567; 149.367 This Central West geography article

130-465: The large number of Irish settlers in the area reflecting upon Newbridge in Ireland or as the result of the opening of a pedestrian overhead bridge built at the station in the 1870s, the station, post office and village were called Newbridge. During the 1880s, gold and iron was mined in the area. The current village survives in relation to the farming community still present in the area. Buildings in

143-997: The region: The Central West's east is higher, wetter and hillier and supports orchards, vineyards , vegetable-growing and pastoralism. The west is flatter and drier and supports grain crops and pastoralism. The Central West region is traversed by the Great Western Highway , the Mid-Western Highway , the Mitchell Highway , the Newell Highway and the Castlereagh Highway . The Central West has several radio stations, including 2BS 95.1FM, B-Rock FM, Life Radio AM 1629khz, 97.9 2LVR (a community radio station), 105.1 2GZFM , 105.9 Star FM , Radio 2LT , 107.9 Move FM , 95.5 ROK FM, 107.5 Community Radio, 103.5 Rhema FM and 1089AM —

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156-657: The remaining large towns. The Central West area was originally inhabited by the Wiradjuri people. The first British explorer, George Wilson Evans, entered the Lachlan Valley in 1815. He named the area the Oxley Plains after his superior the surveyor-general, John Oxley. In 1817 he deemed the area unfit for settlement. A Military Depot was established not long after at Soldiers Flat near present-day Billimari. Arthur Ranken and James Sloan, from Bathurst, were amongst

169-637: The sub-region known as the Central Tablelands , located in the eastern part of the region. The region known as the Orana , which includes the area surrounding Dubbo is typically classed as being a part of the Central West also. Major population and service centres in the Central West include Bathurst , Cowra , Lithgow , Mudgee , Orange , and Parkes . Bathurst and Orange are home to campuses of Charles Sturt University , and Lithgow housing

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