Bellata

Bellata (postcode 2397) is a small village in north-central New South Wales, Australia, in Narrabri Shire.

[2] The place name Bellata could be derived from the local Aboriginal word meaning "kangaroo" or possibly "home of belar trees".

Located on the rich black soil basalt plains of north western New South Wales, it is an important agricultural region and the area is known for some of the best "primehard" wheat production in Australia.

Bellata still has a road house, a police station, primary school, nine-hole sand green golf course and Golf Club, tennis courts, Anglican and Catholic churches, a memorial hall where movies were once shown, caravan park and several community groups.

It consists of a platform and unstaffed basic passenger waiting shed,[5] and is currently served by a single daily Xplorer diesel railmotor between Moree and Sydney in the morning and by another Xplorer heading in the opposite direction to Moree in the evening.