Gowen NSW.Caigan, New South Wales is a bounded rural locality and

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of Gowen County,

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. Caigan

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is on the opposite side of the Castlereagh River from the railway siding of Neilrex, New South Wales.Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W
Map of the County of Napier, Central Division, N.S.W.
(Published Sydney : Dept. of Lands, 1964). The nearest town is Mendooran and the economy is based in

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. The parish is on the traditional lands of the

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