Gwydir

With the opening of the Gwydir Highway in December 1960, the Gibraltar Range became accessible and moves were initiated to establish a national park.

Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia 2008

I knew we could not expect to meet with any watercourse between the Barwan and the Gwydir; which latter river I wished to cross as soon as possible, in hopes then to meet with roads and inhabitants.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

We crossed a channel of the river, at three miles, which is called the “Moomings;” and still I doubted whether we had not yet to cross the main channel of the Gwydir, having seen no current in any of those channels I had crossed.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

I had however already crossed the latitude of the river I had formerly seen; and, coming soon to rising ground, and seeing before me the wide-spread plains of my former journey, I was convinced that the late rains had not extended to the Gwydir, and that this river had been crossed by us in these several channels.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

As I wanted to cross the Gwydir, I crossed this and continued; met with another deep ditch or channel, four miles beyond the Meei; and, at three miles beyond that, another: none of these resembling the Gwydir I had formerly seen.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

The author in page 17, when speaking of _Gwydir_, says: --

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

So unbearable did their depredations become that John Wynn ap Meredydd of Gwydir and Lewis Owen, or as he is called Baron Owen, raised a body of stout men to overcome them, and on Christmas Eve, 1554, succeeded in capturing a large number of the offenders, and, there and then, some hundred or so of the robbers were hung.

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

From the Tweed to the Richmond, thence to the Clarence and on to Walcha, then across the Liverpool Plains to the Gwydir, and back by way of Glen Innes and Tenterfield to Armidale.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Liverpool Plains and the Darling Downs, which are watered by three branches of the Upper Darling -- the Peel, the Gwydir, and the Dumaresq.

History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 George Sutherland 1880

Settlement of Moreton Bay -- Cunningham in the field again -- His discoveries of the Gwydir, Dumaresque, and Condamine Rivers -- The Darling Downs, and

The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876