Bowral

Bowral is the largest town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, about 132 kilometres south-west of Sydney and 169 kilometres north-east of Canberra. It is the main business and entertainment centre of the Wingecarribee Shire. The name comes from a Ngunnawal and Gundungurra word used for nearby Mount Gibraltar. Colonial settlement began with land grants in the early nineteenth century and the town grew quickly from the 1860s to the 1890s once the Sydney to Melbourne railway was built. It later served as a summer retreat for wealthy Sydney families, which left estates and manor houses, and it is widely associated with the cricketer Sir Donald Bradman. The 2021 census recorded 10,764 residents.