Gwydir Highway

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New South Wales

The Gwydir Highway is a highway in the northeast of the Australian state of New South Wales. It connects the Pacific Highway in Grafton with the Castlereagh Highway north of Walgett.

Origin of the name

The street is named after the Gwydir River, its lower reaches accompanied in its western part. The river is named for a small town in Wales.

Course

The Gwydir Highway crosses the New England region of the coast, on the Great Dividing Range to the plains of the interior.

In Grafton the highway from the Pacific Highway to West - Northwest, the Clarence River branches following, from. On the western edge of the Gibraltar Range National Parks it climbs the eastern ramp of the Great Dividing Range and turns it to west -south-west. In Glen Innes it crosses the New England Highway (N15 ) and sets their way west to Inverell continued.

In the Gwydir Highway Inverell the Macintyre River crosses and continues on his way again continued to West northwest. About Delungra he reached the city of Warialda. Between Glen Innes and Warialda the Fossickers Way runs together with the Gwydir Highway. In Warialda it bends to the south, towards Tamworth, from. Soon after Warialda the road reaches the Gwydir River in Moree and it crosses the Newell Highway ( N39 ). The Gwydir River accompanied the road to the west to its confluence with the Barwon River.

The Gwydir Highway crosses the Barwon River at Collarenebri and follows him on his northwestern shore downstream to 14 km north of Walgett. He ends on the Castlereagh Highway ( R55 ).

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. Page 28 29

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