Liverpool Plains

The Liverpool Plains are an extensive agricultural area covering about 12,000 km2 (4,600 sq mi) of the north-western slopes of New South Wales in Australia.

The Plains were subsequently named after Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In the early 1830s, Henry Dangar surveyed and explored the area and made land claims in the name of the Australian Agricultural Company.

[2][3] During the 1860s Captain Thunderbolt (Fred Ward) and two accomplices robbed inns and mail-coaches in the Liverpool Plains district.

[5] Most of the 620 mm of rainfall the area experiences each year is high intensity and occurs in the warmer months, from October through March.

View out over the Liverpool Plains from near Quirindi
A sign protesting coal and gas mining in the Liverpool Plains, NSW
Hay fields, Liverpool Plains
One of the many hills that dot the Liverpool Plains, Mullaley, NSW