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Byng, New South Wales is a locality in Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. There was once a village of the same name, now a ghost town, although its church and cemetery still exist.
The area now known as Byng lies on traditional lands of Wiradjuri people.[2]
Byng lies between Bathurst and Orange, to the east of Lucknow.[3]
The settlement was first known as Cornish Settlement, but was named Byng, after the ill-fated Admiral John Byng.
Aboriginal lands and conflict with colonists
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One of the most numerous of Aboriginal peoples with vast traditional lands, the Wiradjuri were better placed to resist colonial settlement than those closer to the coast. They also had more time to prepare, as colonial settlement west of the Blue Mountains only became feasible with the first crossing of those mountains in 1813. Under Governor Macquarie‘s rule, settlement in the area proceeded slowly, and the Wiradjuri tolerated some encroachment onto their vast lands, such as a settlement of 120 colonists at Bathurst. However, the pace of settlement greatly increased, under Governor Thomas Brisbane, which led to the Bathurst War. For a time, some settlers were driven off some of the Wiradjuri’s land. Once the Wiradjuri sought peace, settlement resumed.
Copper mining then gold.
Byng had a school, from July 1874 to December 1958.[4]
Some links for citations (to be converted to in-line citations, as the text is created):
Population: https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL10729
Cornish settlement: https://www.celticcouncil.org.au/cornish/nsw/Towns%20A-C/byngone.htm
Copper mining:https://www.mindat.org/loc-291802.html
Early recollections mentions copper smelting and Cornish migration: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/281888140
Gold field declared in 1893: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221711772
Other newspaper articles mention gold mining
Plan of village: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1521195525/view
Post office re-established 1878:https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13422368
Cemetery: https://austcemindex.com/?cemid=1200
also Godolphin Graveyard: https://austcemindex.com/?cemid=1486
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