Sleepy Burringbar explodes
By Jo Kennett
THERE used to be a little joke among shire residents who referred to Burringbar as Boringbar, which probably suited the locals.
Things have been anything but boring in Burringbar in the past five years, including floods and landslides in the hills damaging several houses last year.
Then the community was rocked by a blaze that destroyed an old building housing a popular cafe, the local hairdresser, and a pop-up Mexican restaurant that was well patronised every Friday night, as locals gathered together for a feed, a drink and a chat.
The town got back on its feet and new residents moved in, attracted by the winding dirt roads opening up to picturesque rural vistas and babbling creeks running through lush grazing pastures.
The Burringbar Community Association’s Ian Fox has put together some history of this enchanted area.
Mr Fox said it was likely members of the Goodjunburra clan inhabited Burringbar, which means “place of the burring”, a burring being a non-returning fighting boomerang.
In the early 1800s, a road was constructed along what is now Tweed Valley Way, but was
possibly an Aboriginal walking track before then.
The village was established in 1886, becoming an overnight stop for the Cobb and Co wagons delivering supplies from Murwillumbah and Brunswick Heads.
The town boomed when the railway came in 1894 and soon bakers, butchers, a pub, Skinner’s cordial factory, a boarding house, tearoom, billiard room, general stores, a fruiterer, blacksmiths, a hairdresser, a tinsmith, Snow’s Sawmill, a school, churches, a convent and a School of the Arts. It was busy.
Many of the businesses were destroyed by fire in 1923 and in 1932 The Hotel Burringbar, a bakers and butchers burnt down.
The licence was transferred to the Hotel Victory at Mooball, which incensed the community and started a legendary feud that seems, at last, to be over.
By 1990, the trains no longer stopped at Burringbar, which slipped into a peaceful existence as a centre for the surrounding dairy and banana farms.
What was, for many years, a sleepy village, has pretty well exploded with life since the Northern Rivers Rail Trail opened in March this year, which must have come as a huge shock to residents.
Burringbar is now one of the most happening villages in the shire with lycra-clad maniacs pedalling furiously into town every weekend, busting into all the shops and cafes and then pedalling back off down the trail like a vanishing dream.
Burringbar now has a population of around 878 friendly locals, including the surrounding area, and there is real estate for sale there, which is, apparently, the point of this column!
At the cheaper end of the scale, Mana Real Estate has a lovely, 671.5 square metre tropical block of land for $550,000, just a short walk to the village. It’s private and perfect for a pole home if you want to capture some of the rural views.
There are some posh Byron Bay real estate agencies selling property in the area, which
shows how things have changed, with one pretty spectacular 39.5-hectare property at 187 Burringbar Road on the market for $5,500,000 to $5,800,000. There is another 1.5-hectare gorgeous home that I will absolutely fight you for, though at $2,200,000 to $2,300,000 I might have to hit Mum up for a loan.
Many old locals cashed in and moved out as property prices soared during Covid, but if you have got the dough there are some beautiful places for sale in the Burringbar Valley.
If you are thinking about buying into this lovely area though, just remember, the locals are downto-earth, community-minded folk and don’t want anyone coming in acting like members of the Lords Cricket Club.
It may now be home to millionaires, but as the floods and fires showed, the egalitarian spirit of Burringbar shines through stronger than ever, which is what makes it a great place to visit and an even better place to call home.
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