Located 320 km north of
Sydney and 20 km west of
Port Macquarie, New South Wales, between the town of
Telegraph Point and
Willi Willi National Park it is roughly equivalent with
Tinebank parish of
Macquarie county. It is within
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council area, and is divided into Rollands Plains and Upper Rollands Plains. Rollands Plains is also a part of the traditional
Dunghutti land. The
Birpai people have lived in this area for more than 40,000 years. The economy is primarily agricultural although timber getting was dominant in the past, with parts of the locality being cleared as
soldier settlements following
World War I. Rollands Plains has a
school of arts hall, cemetery,
oval, a Rural Fire Service, and the Upper Rollands Plains Public School. The smaller Rollands Plains Public School closed in the 1960s. The natural geography is dominated by the
Wilson River, a tributary of the
Hastings River. The head waters of the Wilson River is near
Mount Banda Banda 20 km to the west in the
Willi Willi National Park. A number of state forest reservations also lie to the north of the village. File:Rollands Plains Race track 2018.png|Rollands Plains Race Track, fire station and cemetery, village centre Rollands Plains NSW. File:Rollands Plains village 2018.png|Rollands Plains village centre 2018 File:Bril Bril Creek Rollins Plains New South Wales.png|Bridge over the Bril Bril Creek on the edge of Rollins Plains village centre. Mid north Coast of New South Wales. File:Upper Rollands Plains New South Wales 4.png|Landscape of Upper Rollands Plains New South Wales. File:Cogo and Ballengary Parish Macquarie County (NSW).png|Landscape of Rolland's Plains New South Wales. File:Mount Cogo Wilson River Port Macquarie News South Wales (1).png|Mount Cogo and the Wilson River west of Port Macquarie on the Mid North Coast of News South Wales. ==Etymology==