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Tweed Heads (TOWN), NSW Details
History
Name of Crown Village changed from Cooloan to Tweed Heads Govt Gazatte 10/12/65 File 4142.
Description
A town on the New South Wales - Queensland border at the mouth of the Tweed River. Also assigned as an address locality.
Origin
Named by John Oxley in 1823 after the Tweed River which in part divides England from Scotland. (Australian Place Names Kennedy 1992)
Tweed Heads (TOWN), NSW
| title | Tweed Heads (TOWN) |
| additional | |
| state | NSW |
| reference | 60760 |
| placename | Tweed Heads |
| designation | TOWN |
| geographical name | |
| previous names | Cooloan; Cooloon |
| lga | TWEED |
| description | A town on the New South Wales - Queensland border at the mouth of the Tweed River. Also assigned as an address locality. |
| meaning | |
| origin | Named by John Oxley in 1823 after the Tweed River which in part divides England from Scotland. (Australian Place Names Kennedy 1992) |
| history | Name of Crown Village changed from Cooloan to Tweed Heads Govt Gazatte 10/12/65 File 4142. |
