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Paradise (LOCALITY), NSW Details
History
And more likely the first white people came when the season was bad and it looked so wretched that they called it Hells Hole. On the next visit there had been such a transformation they renamed it Paradise.
Description
A Bounded Address Locality Boundaries within the Inverell Council area shown on map GNB3654.
Origin
It is surrounded by basalt hills and the tracks going to it were very bad before roads were made so it was called paradise because one had to go through Hells gates to get there. (See letter of 20-1-97 on file GNB3654).
Paradise (LOCALITY), NSW
| title | Paradise (LOCALITY) |
| additional | |
| state | NSW |
| reference | 79275 |
| placename | Paradise |
| designation | LOCALITY |
| geographical name | |
| previous names | |
| lga | INVERELL |
| description | A Bounded Address Locality Boundaries within the Inverell Council area shown on map GNB3654. |
| meaning | |
| origin | It is surrounded by basalt hills and the tracks going to it were very bad before roads were made so it was called paradise because one had to go through Hells gates to get there. (See letter of 20-1-97 on file GNB3654). |
| history | And more likely the first white people came when the season was bad and it looked so wretched that they called it Hells Hole. On the next visit there had been such a transformation they renamed it Paradise. |
