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The Gap (PASS), NSW Details
History
MAPS. The feature is named WERRIES CREEK GAP on the State Map but is not on the 1862 county map. Parish maps and county maps name GAP Railway Station rather than the feature. The now un-named ranges which
Description
A pass in the range running generally northerly about 4.8 km west of the town of Werris Creek. Both the railway from Breeza to Werris Creek and Werris Creek run through this pass.
Meaning
A gap in the hills.
Origin
The name is so clearly descriptive and the feature so very conspicuous that the name must have been in use from the earliest days of settlement. However it has not been seen in records of the early runs nor of explorations.
The Gap (PASS), NSW
| title | The Gap (PASS) |
| additional | |
| state | NSW |
| reference | 19811 |
| placename | The Gap |
| designation | PASS |
| geographical name | |
| previous names | |
| lga | TAMWORTH REGIONAL |
| description | A pass in the range running generally northerly about 4.8 km west of the town of Werris Creek. Both the railway from Breeza to Werris Creek and Werris Creek run through this pass. |
| meaning | A gap in the hills. |
| origin | The name is so clearly descriptive and the feature so very conspicuous that the name must have been in use from the earliest days of settlement. However it has not been seen in records of the early runs nor of explorations. |
| history | MAPS. The feature is named WERRIES CREEK GAP on the State Map but is not on the 1862 county map. Parish maps and county maps name GAP Railway Station rather than the feature. The now un-named ranges which |
