Billinudgel is a town in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

, Australia, and is part of Byron Shire

Byron Shire

Byron Shire is a Local Government Area located in the North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, on the Pacific Ocean coast between 50 and 80 kilometres south of the Queensland border. The shire, administered from the town of Mullumbimby, covers an area of , and has existed as a local...

. It used to be a railway town

Railway town

A railway town is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site.In Victorian Britain, the spread of railways greatly affected the fate of many small towns...

 with many fruits and vegetable loaded onto the local railway. Since the railway was not longer used in Billinudgel it has nearly joined to the nearby town of Ocean Shores

Ocean Shores, New South Wales

Ocean Shores is a coastal town in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Since being established in the early 1970s it has grown to a reasonable size town. It is the largest town north Byron Bay in the Byron Shire and second largest in the shire. It is located in the Brunswick Valley - a...

. The area was bypassed by a heavily upgraded Pacific Highway in July 2007.

Name

The name Billinudgel is derived from Bundjalung Bilihnadhihl, meaning "once belonged to a parrot".