Dungog

Dungog New South Wales
View of Dungog from Hospital Road
Dungog
Coordinates	32°23′54″S 151°45′09″E / 32.39833°S 151.75250°E / -32.39833; 151.75250Coordinates: 32°23′54″S 151°45′09″E / 32.39833°S 151.75250°E / -32.39833; 151.75250
Population	2,131 (2011 census)
Postcode(s)	2420
Time zone	AEST (UTC+10)
• Summer (DST)	AEDT (UTC+11)
Location	215 km (134 mi) N of Sydney 76 km (47 mi) NNW of Newcastle 52 km (32 mi) NNE of Maitland 51 km (32 mi) N of Raymond Terrace
LGA(s)	Dungog Shire Mid-Coast Council
Region	Hunter
County	Durham
Parish	Dungog
State electorate(s)	Upper Hunter
Federal Division(s)	Lyne
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 28.3 °C 83 °F 3.6 °C 38 °F 1,151.8 mm 45.3 in
Localities around Dungog: Sugarloaf Bendolba, Fosterton Alison Tabbil Creek Dungog Alison Tabbil Creek Tabbil Creek Alison

Dungog is a country town on the Williams River in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. Located in the middle of dairy and timber country, it is the centre of the Dungog Shire local government area and at the 2011 census it had a population of 2,131 people. The area includes the Fosterton Loop, 22 kilometres (14 mi) of road, used in the annual Pedalfest. A small portion of Dungog lies in the Mid-Coast Council LGA.

The traditional owners of the area now known as Dungog are the Gringai clan of the Wonnarua people, a group of indigenous people of Australia.

By 1825 Robert Dawson had named the Barrington area, while surveyor Thomas Florance named the Chichester River in 1827. Two years later George Boyle White explored the sources of the Allyn and Williams rivers. Grants along the Williams followed to men such as Duncan Mackay, John Verge, James Dowling (later a NSW Chief Justice) and others, who, with their assigned convicts, began clearing land and building houses around a district that was by the early 1830s centred on a small settlement first known as Upper William. With a Court of Petty Sessions in 1833 and gazetted in 1838 as the village of Dungog (a local Gringai word), it had a court house, lockup and an increasing number of inns, shops and houses.

Lord St, as were Dowling, Mackay, Chapman, Hooke, Brown and Myles, were all named after landowners at the time surveyor Francis Rusden drew up his generous 1838 grid plan of Dungog's streets. The descendants of some of these, notably the Dowlings, Mackays and Hookes, still live in and around Dungog. Others, such as John Lord, went bankrupt or, as did Myles, sold out early and moved to Sydney.

Dungog village gradually grew from a mere 25 houses in the 1846 census (three of stone or brick). By 1854, four licences for publicans were granted in Dungog: James Stephenson, Dungog Inn; Joseph Finch, Settlers’ Arms; Joseph Robson, Trades’ Arms; and Edward Tate, Durham Hotel. Two of these continue to operate today.