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Bunnan, New South Wales

locality in New South Wales, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ4997809 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bunnan is a town in the Upper Hunter Shire in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on Bunnan Road east of Merriwa about 270 kilometres north of Sydney, and is part of the Hunter (federal) and Upper Hunter (state) electorates. Bunnan is an agricultural area known for cattle and sheep farming.

History

Bunnan Post Office opened on 1 September 1876 and closed in 1986.

Editorial summary

“Bunnan, New South Wales” enters the record as locality in New South Wales, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bunnan, South and Wales can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1876, 1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bunnan, South and Wales.
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“Bunnan, New South Wales” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bunnan, South and Wales provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4997809. Authority coordinates are -32.032, 150.601. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1876 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bunnan, New South Wales” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.