About Old Bar
Old Bar is a coastal town in the MidCoast Council area, around 18 km east of Taree on the Mid North Coast and around 315 km north of Sydney. It is on the southern side of the mouth of the Manning River.
The town grew rapidly during a boom in housing in 1988. It has shared-use cycling and walking paths, including the Old Bar Cycleway connecting parts of the township and surrounding areas.
How Old Bar got here
A few dates and facts that shaped the place.
1988
A boom in housing grows the town rapidly.
Heritage
The Old Bar Airfield, an authorised grass airfield used by light aircraft, is heritage listed.
November 2019
A bushfire from Hillville jumps the Pacific Highway into the path of Old Bar and Wallabi Point.
More about Old Bar
Old Bar is a common place for light aircraft operations; the Old Bar Airfield, about half a kilometre off Old Bar Road, is heritage listed.
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Where is Old Bar?
Old Bar is in the MidCoast Council area on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales.
Nearby towns with hubs on OurHub, with straight-line distances: Cundletown (10 km north-west), Manning Point (11 km north-east), Taree (13 km north-west), Hallidays Point (14 km south-west).
What the Old Bar directory lists
To eat and drink: Flow Bar. Shops and services: Old Bar Post Office. Halls and community places: Old Bar Community Library, Old Bar Soldiers Memorial Hall.
Parks, beaches and recreation: Blue Ocean Estate Park, Bohnock Reserve, Charles Boyce Park, Old Bar Park. Schools and learning: Old Bar Public School. Emergency services: Old Bar Rural Fire Brigade.
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Photo: “The Old Bar Beach - Taken on the Saturday, 7th January 2012 at 11-53am. - panoramio” by Christopher Wood (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Town facts: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites the Australian Bureau of Statistics census. Straight-line distances are worked out from the hub’s coordinates. Directory locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).