Naming Ariah Park

Local historian Bill Speirs explains the origin of the name Ariah Park... 

John Richard Hardy leased ‘Ariah’ run on 30th April 1850. ‘Ariah’ is a Wiradjuri word which means hot and dry. A ‘run’, during the pastoral era, was considered to comprise sufficient land to depasture 4000 sheep or 762 cattle. A lessee could hold more than one run.