town, northeastern New South Wales, Australia, in the New England district on the Northern Tableland south of the Queensland border. Founded in 1851 on Furracabad stock station, it became a municipality in 1872. Glen Innes serves a region of dairy and mixed farming and tin, bismuth, and sapphire mining. It lies at the junction of the Gwydir and New England highways and has air and rail connections to Sydney (290 miles 【470 km】 southwest) and Brisbane. Industries include concrete-pipe and brick factories, tanneries, sawmills, and vegetable quick-freezing plants. Pop. (2006) 6,248.