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Sawtell

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Coffs Harbour City Council NSW, Locked Bag 155, Sawtell, NSW 2452
02 6648 4000

Description

Sawtell is a coastal village near Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales, Australia.

Sawtell is a coastal village near Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales, Australia.

History

In 1863, a cutter carrying a load of cedar logs ran aground on what would become Sawtell Beach. A Coffs Harbour farmer named Walter Harvey assembled a team of workers to salvage the logs, and a small settlement developed near the site of the wreck.Forty years later, the land around Sawtell Beach was purchased and subdivided by Oswald Sawtell for housing and farmland. Sawtell railway station, post office, school and hotel followed soon thereafter and by the 1930s Sawtell had become a thriving coastal village.

The original inhabitants of the land were Aborigines of the Gumbaynggirr clan. The Aboriginal name for the land where the town now stands was Bongil Bongil.

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Type: Towns

Population: 1001-10000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 3.711 km2

Elevation: 4-10 metres

Town elevation: 6 m

Population number: 3,682

Local Government Area: Coffs Harbour City Council

Location

Coffs Harbour City Council NSW, Locked Bag 155, Sawtell, NSW 2452

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Sawtell, New South Wales

Sawtell - Localista

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