Sallys Flat, New South Wales
Town in New South Wales, Australia
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Sallys Flat is a locality in the Australian state of New South Wales.
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Sallys Flat Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 33.00°S 149.567°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1872 | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 13 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2850[3] | ||||||||||||
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The area now known as Sallys Flat is on the traditional land of the Wiradjuri people.[4]
Sallys Flat was a small gold-mining village established in 1872 at the same time as nearby Hill End boomed during the New South Wales gold rush. It produced gold for many years but was not a large producer. It is now a farming area.
In late 2015, Sallys Flat was one of six locations on an Australian Government shortlist for a nuclear waste repository.[5] However the Government soon found the idea unpopular with locals[1] and removed Sallys Flat from the list.[6]
