Type: | town |
Canyonleigh | |
Region: | Southern Highlands |
State: | nsw |
Coordinates: | -34.588°N 150.118°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in New South Wales |
Lga: | Wingecarribee Shire |
Postcode: | 2577 |
Elevation: | 719 |
Parish: | Bangadilly, Murrimba, Nundialla |
County: | Camden |
Stategov: | Goulburn |
Fedgov: | Hume |
Dist1: | 149 |
Dir1: | SW |
Location1: | Sydney |
Dist2: | 23 |
Dir2: | W |
Location2: | Moss Vale |
Dist3: | 68 |
Dir3: | ENE |
Location3: | Goulburn |
Near-Nw: | Bannaby |
Near-N: | Bullio |
Near-Ne: | Joadja |
Near-W: | Big Hill |
Near-E: | Belanglo |
Near-Sw: | Brayton |
Near-S: | Paddys River |
Near-Se: | Sutton Forest |
Canyonleigh (; formerly known as Canyan Leigh) is a locality in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. Canyan Leigh was named by Mrs Jane Murray who took up a property between Paddys River and Long Swamp. The property overlooked the valley and this gave Mrs Murray the idea 'Canyan' or 'Canyon' being the name for a steep sided gully.
At the, it had a population of 398. According to the 2021 census, there were 455 people living at Canyonleigh.[1]