Blighty, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Blighty
state = nsw


caption = The HotelGeneral store in Blighty.
lga = Conargo Shire Council
postcode =
est =
pop = 335
pop_footnotes =
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
county = Townsend
stategov = Murray-Darling
fedgov = Farrer
dist1 = 693
location1= Sydney
dist2 = 168
location2= Albury
dist3 = 32
location3= Deniliquin
dist4 = 25
location4= Finley [ [http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp Travelmate] ]

Blighty is a small town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The town lies on the Riverina Highway between the towns of Finley and Deniliquin. It is located in the Conargo Shire Council Local Government Area. At the 2006 census, Blighty and the surrounding area had a population of 335.Census 2006 AUS
id=SSC16333
name=Blighty (State Suburb)
accessdate=2007-10-25
quick=on]

Blighty Post Office opened on 16 February 1926 and closed in 1932. It reopened in 1956 and clsed again in 1991.Citation
last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=NSW&country= | accessdate = 2008-04-11 ]

Blighty consists of a Hotel/General Store, school and a football ground. The town has a team competing in the Picola & District Football League.

The land around Blighty is mainly irrigated and used to produce rice and other grains. Blighty is also a major receival centre for the Ricegrowers Co-Operative Limited with a number of sheds capable of storing 28,000 tonnes of grain. [ [http://www.conargo.nsw.gov.au/about.htm Conargo Shire Council] - About us. Retrieved 10 January 2007.]

ee also

Blighty Football Club

External links

* [http://www.conargo.nsw.gov.au/ Conargo Shire Council] - Official Website.

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