A small settlement under the Inverell Shire local government area in New South Wales, Bukkulla is situated 34 kilometres north of Inverell, 160 kilometres northwest of Armidale, 637 kilometres north of the state capital of Sydney and 414 kilometres southwest of the Queensland capital of Brisbane. The town was named after the 130,000-acre property of George Wyndham, who established a vineyard as well as bred horses and stockhorses on the land. Bukkulla is said to mean either “place of leopard tree” or a “high black stump.” At present, the main township of Bukkulla sits on the intersection of the Inverell-Bonshaw Road and Ashford-Bukkulla Road, and is mostly surrounded by farmlands.