Hungerford (Queensland)

The small town is located north of the border of New South Wales on Rabbit-Proof Fence and is accessible only on unpaved streets of Bourke or Thargomindah. 2006 were counted in the city and its surrounding 141 people. Hungerford is surrounded by Currawinya National Park.

Was named the place after the Irish dairy farmer Thomas Hungerford, who camped there, and he was a customs station on a cattle drive route between two Australian states along the Paroo River. 1874, the first hotel was opened and named the settlement the following year to the city.

In the years 1892/1893 Henry Lawson visited the town and wrote about it:

The town is right on the Queensland border, and in inter - provincial Rabbit-Proof Fence - with rabbits on bothsides of it - runs across the main street. [ ... ] Hungerford Consists of two houses and a humpy in New South Wales, and five houses in Queensland. Characteristically enough, Both the pubs are in Queensland. We got a glass of sour yeast at one and paid six pence for it - we had asked for English ale.

The Royal Mail Hotel was built in 1873 and the transport company Cobb & Co ran the place from 1873 to 1904.