Burren Junction
Burren Junction is a New South Wales village 51 km west of Wee Waa, on the Kamilaroi Highway to Walgett. The name is from the local Aboriginal word for boomerang or 'big creek'. Burren Junction grew from a railway encampment which came from the extension of the north-western rail line in 1902. Burren Junction Post Office opened on 16 May 1904.Burren Junction is in the Walgett Shire local government area and Jamison County. The village sits at an elevation... Show more of 163 metres and recorded a population of 276 at the 2016 census.Wheat and cotton growing are the main agricultural industries along with some sheep and beef cattle breeding. The town has two churches, RSL and Sporting Club, sports ground, plus a hotel. The Burren Junction Bore is a hot mineral water pool complex that is floodlit to provide day and night bathing that is popular with tourists but is now shunned by the locals who consider...