The town is located 55 kilometres south of Tamworth on the New England Highway and is in the Liverpool Plains Shire.

[2] The first European squatters arrived in the region in about 1830 and Wallabadah Station was established in 1835 on 44,000 acres (180 km2) of land.

During the 1850s the settlement began to develop at the intersection of two mail coach runs which came from the north and northwest, and Wallabadah Post Office opened on 1 October 1856.

Agriculture is the dominant industry in the area with livestock, especially beef cattle and some sheep being reared there.

Stonemason, Ray Collins, carved 1,520 names of all those who came out to Australia on the eleven ships in 1788 on tablets along the garden pathways.