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= The Heritage of Tasmania: South-Eastern Region =

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//Previous Tasmanian Heritage Post//: National Trust Tasmanian Heritage Register 15 - Eastern Coast: - Freycinet Peninsula, Maria Island, Bicheno , Buckland , Coles Bay , Cranbrook.

toc This post is derived from "The Heritage of Tasmania; The Illustrated Register of the National Estate" (Macmillan, Melbourne 1983) The Tasmanian National Trust Heritage list has been 'rescinded' by the State Government, so on these pages I have started to reconstruct it. > Freycinet Peninsula, Maria Island, Bicheno, Buckland, Coles Bay, Cranbrook, (on previous page) > (this and next pages:) Earlham, Kelvedon, Little Swanport, Swansea; Triabunna,
 * 1) Southern Region //(previous pages 9 - 14)//
 * 2) South-Eastern Region //(previous, this and following pages)//
 * 1) Western Region
 * 2) North West Region
 * 3) North East Region



S1. Earlham, 400 Earlham Road, Rheban TAS
Earlham is a coastal homestead just off the [|Griffiths Rivulet] in southeast Tasmania, Australia situated about 60km east-northeast of [|Hobart]. Father and son Tim and Chris Chesterman run Earlham, on the southern part of Tasmania's east coast
 * Earlham is one of the southernmost homesteads in Tasmania.
 * Registered in 1976 with //Woolpress//, originally '//Topsail Hall//' (1858) - Classified in 1976
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #103; CT165524/1
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/xIiCwKjKoNcOtPGkdkI-_T-IrW3f6fV456XMCGLz-dC6G7PYw96X-uVlBoBBneMopOT-8Jh-ON_8lha-sn1OsOwvXCPhVvYfdVr6vA726GqRVyfi78qY-rlUgUJHu6m9WJT-EMRsATsnGMz7py5DtMHXnfX2kERr4fcZ3lNk6pPdlV0lTSc_JvD1ieaKU3LtQjGu-w8xmBuLCkDGquFHoPzBKxZfkkIyjJMdsB91I0KtG_NpkDRVvpTrbAXQlA7qGm6v4FbsMoXV9SwVN6gvHv7NwuNBPaMBVU8tC5RQ5P74fmfDwkzCdIcqjz-m2VM1wv6L66M9YEMEENpInKnUVoJmnQtSDGurO5zGZu38t6VmaX7LG-daBW1Av93VgG5GVAWh1XwkOcauSfdJg0GKTbizmneIauL8yiwizJLzh5J0M47uTKOCWenPReVp7I3ADfvSOt0BKwvhGGZwuFQhIlhIJKROGvi5X4S60W0X1RxViAnsu0j0ScgRCv6xVeh5fB4sy9q20hYXReInQDP3b5Xsiw02UOPO5xQJsn2tNiv5H1rlETfKNQlck-_9yb64XAf3GyDoRMo_uSl-OYEjbJaAynmMluhs3SNB1c75YJ085a4LEQ=w800-h600-no width="249" height="189"]] ||  || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/t24PYCYEuxFYtFKfD3rhA7yi5QYCnR4CFSLjxPMBkyNiDvEMH_gMEiiiOrnG8Ab6AxfiKBXAlehidrSw4gi7VO4WYb-FIB3_x4TXCxj_b6zzPP6AGIEGDebLMv1s69FuY_bqBvVDX32isMgPJJJpxWRUumiKBP_0UkjISLaol5hJIsgh8BxU1y53XoOTId__PhhPPzjmP1LQJo4ouv-AlDkCeqITP_4HmFvHREhEjbHgEQYnuL24YhhiJF_2uP4QvA5Qzrdcynt8V4N47cn_i13Kwr3eA5PpSYT4HNiiHDer0Rma_N7wkPYZMkz0q3zxZ3f_VB3nBHUMq_4whgmsc9lYUWxnWGEvEdwp-ysbVmJ-zDmsibXfdkIX3UZ4qrc_VWQ7FuWSUBpWNnNq49Iqhw1hCYSEk59U1uM08rBOO7cGyO8slIJv4qIdicV7rZv-veolAoj2aht9ms4FQ5zkOyqiRnR4GWTjxGDWTPZ6HCEJSmVu1Znlo2fM16OhoYzBomtHD56CJ210NPL1GDYx1YcthF37yqNyLEG9vvEfXWe8fLanj4VOuphf0B7Qy4ec54JWQPtatLf6NUq3IgBrMiAEE0z_MtCj3JOkC5cf_rgyCzDecg=w1024-h637-no width="298" height="188"]] ||
 * Earlham is at an altitude of approximately 14m. The nearest more populous place is the village of [|Orford] which is 13km away with a population of around 480. Earlham is nearby to [|Earlham Hill] , [|Rheban Beach]  and [|Sandspit River Conservation Area] .
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vq-6kT_e2_PNmx5kK-SjqbIpVY9yEtw_DznT40S4jiNpd_3y5kL8Bmixu-KUPur5UBP7AoFJLygw0r6EHx7bMeYhWM4iyb53ML69rCFKYs269T1ZWAeFgFnuZg0IjAN2zQTwmwiW5D5M1rA4AnF_8cBhdi_P5Y55804SEVByYqJWN4pgcnnhpvDEytPx63JmnhzKH4mlF6-jmwnhLBZl1Jja24Kzqslu1FqMHMFVCrjWTJNwL_tl-u5luLuM66Ap8rr0GNVe69UQZef2LV_QukHzU4fzawkRj2f7GALg5oDIx5Bg8BlGuqnfke4zkGIeSN6s53-ngY3cW3QKrJJ7MplvwK6PHC_H8vQmAwEnkqym1RoOcPjiAjaK7VhmTOc2LtLDQAxcVxzXc2yON22mm5cqUMFvehdrxNhKc8VBH3gWI4Ok1OOI3mxnVfER0rBuNa28xYMjR5dE1tzWeswsAQ9Ty219_QbowvrCsJJknDecMC5H8m6Fr8Ph6Cn-mu3z7f7CnQnUHDfgFHjPkpz9rDPc6waCC_A7Y5Mq3bUuWr65hMDeeXExSjI842ZCyW3pNF9GXFSPhqkgXmpV8qwxL-0M-p-7ln_j5G7T3XG9CllVigJ1Ig=w661-h387-no width="302" height="185" caption="Satellite map of Earlham homestead"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WVMMAaAd4unp3f5vePkBspPtuoUiukrTDd02WnPLDPcChT8Zw4acGzWASJlhckQeGas3ORIAnlTRvTngTjJoLpiX-pfp24i3kRu_Ki_QId5nktDqBYgwb6DxUxky7EmoeKH8PMJPGrm1iGbv_se9mt_JLNyv6DX87xJo9Ru-v3Bn_3RJvuARcPFviFL_UjHVzsNg_cZKukYHYj6wq710wC52UmN2x3cvUZbiNXUX37LKHriOnTDRXXC43m2DXYoPUE-Q6y_xkvFxeoO_Km9XEyJZqDAjyiJ0XPe58RIzb18i-M81v_Yq3Q-4ib16aGUAGZYvZgX-8wj8NYrRa8Se5sAfBhjr2mzsxMXEzGSjyLKHTrBJo-56nCylkEAoz-L-3fYSv79E74s2T3zofVPtzh2mTs62XXo9XrctunSe7yYUo1OHAPvG7jHwVmzOXez0JuQ0HrCkwwgLLg6Oi1gHI-FESyZHq0UiO3VVE7DSD821eGI0riJp6xdHcXfcRVT75qpmL7Y_wyTdTIhRykJGYvWZ_ZIio0e-10RzLegYXm8DSR-UwTvOpv1Zt0V0bmZ-YPFUvqHiY9Miitq_iYpTApgUkWA3Oyug9sfM4b_SthRhf7eTAw=w500-h333-no width="257" height="180" caption="View from Earlham"]] ||
 * From "Landline" the ABC: **Short Rations,** Reporter: Chris Clark
 * First Published: 11/07/2008

CHRIS CLARK: Tasmania has had droughts before but what makes this one different is its persistence and the fact that it covers much of the Midlands and east coast, around half the State's productive agricultural area. || * TIM CHESTERMAN, EARLHAM: There's been a bit of rain in the last couple of weeks but for the last 2.5 years, the seasons have consistently failed. > Our rainfall's just sort of almost non-existent.
 * CHRIS CHESRTERMAN: We've only had three inches for this year. Yeah, it's made it hard." ||

==S2. Kelveden & Outbuildings, 12371 Tasman Highway Swansea 7190, Tasmania==

Kelvedon Estate is one of Tasmania’s oldest farming properties. It overlooks a spectacular coastline, surrounded by sheep and vines.  Francis Cotton (1800-1883) and wife Anna Maria (1801-1883) had belonged to the Society of Friends in England but were disowned because their marriage was solemnised outside the society.  An important east coast property group comprising a two storey homestead, stables, barn, shearing shed and cottage.  Kelvedon Estate was settled by the Cotton Family in 1829 and Jack Cotton is the 5th Generation on the estate. The property is predominately native pasture and old growth forests. > - covenants attached to Titles. Included are areas of Blue Gum Forest protected for Swift Parrot Habitat. ====**Kelvedon Garden**====
 * // Classified in 1976 //
 * Grade A National Trust heritage registered (source 2)
 * Register of the National Estate Record ID: 11718
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #62; CT108120/2
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1562
 * They emigrated with their family and settled in Van Diemen’s Land in 1829.
 * They received a grant of land south of Swansea which they named **Kelvedon** and the property still remains in the Cotton family.
 * The homestead was built in 1830 by Francis Cotton on his original grant, and it was intended that it only be a temporary residence but survives (with extensions) today.
 * The fine stone outbuildings complement the homestead and are located in a rich landscape setting.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1xBfkmbJxhfAFahgGkLeJyuxkmmI5zPqGTz8I4AYaAXH9Co6t8xgnwK2o_J7HXhp0-M6r38DE2eUAFkuiBR3U-YmxlqR3t3OPQKwqzzOKt7Sxriw9fe1d9oi8brUeCRWX7Ru0Mgwm6ncIfLipCtW7Vmyp1lYFjcR2ZT68umFWFOtIDfl7XN6pb6JKNBjD7b9R4ucgByyMeJ9vRkCOTnNJelQU1r1onavts5BwQecnANhxH0b77nhB_VhlXvqrirW-4x9KF0PmURtKqUi8V5IVXcJH54MzLpbeUI0d41bZ2BHdP_d6GpFi8m-of8fpyXIziSx-WZ-xbUmV2mobphbrlvIfLL1SMMZ4F7hLbnX9FckJmna1_W89kRhj1hLi6S9pTBYGPwauthYWAYRx2k9oSEiaMhOyrti33YiL4myGQKtB2eWVuqII09G_B4de8OC-dyCe9C-NjX-Ey6_1yAA-XQSXrxLU97ixNRO4JH_u90gog5_G9QhM3dVild7l_wvWlC8NJxYYQLEZxlCTN2ngUM-8A84vhzfzwSjRhHdr8cjXyiMR_SoJaiMRCtlRFuPiT5t7rABdHeME_fUa6HIIXqjFQwcj1XiP_SC7qsgv12kPhC6zw=w300-h451-no caption="Francis Cotton (1800-1883) "]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BogDeuwFQ87CZrqozppnMROaIDtMjYIWhjw009DdDcBHDwbOW3ttPitaEb1Y51nZ0KXTwANleuxjhdsesU50A3jvNuUDqnEWTnNLYRj-dFDbQSNdLFrW_WVwZYa30dTIlBx0Qo2q2lPcqUChrGe8HrYUSOK8urFCKbhZsF5pSWRsn1zAT5t31J_N26Gj7mSZAr4Db_7nPYInN1P7GldfPinUKLeyQvket3xlvImRCdzWllC7H_K7rbRcpv7MsK1r-j-32Blkv2KeH4OQK8Ir3rO7v85lI-HG94PMJKByfyXEIDKLsqDTvPj5LOvDpJlpm-lk4mX0PLaAaQLLb4Jz6eq3MnSTvAJ9wJoiI4ypEf_3WXTZ5MmAR5iAVK3C61ATcVCG0ntWzKtU-w2eA8EqCbtLrtJq8_AHVjycsXf_4P8_BTxpkMQSOVqF8bLfkTJgFRKzh81BTT2VMhMhjrWIlByB1tN0yXfABG6EzDE4vbOXSLrTjrBaYdU_HdMAF8nF9d9E7jim3ETVREHc9YwKZcg_aYgdy68IJ3et4y1j8hvnNwJxWJx_fEPk32kdiEbxW6LUxfafkTa73EBtCsSew4nAuioeTqio6B4b-SOyaAtMdnFtKw=w300-h451-no caption="Anna Maria Cotton (1801-1883)"]] ||
 * A later resident of the East Coast commented that some of the Cotton neighbours “was always quarrelin’ but the Cottons, they was different, but then they was Quakers, and the fightin’ bit has been left out o’ Quakers”.
 * Kelvedon became, after Hobart, a main centre of Quakerism. First Francis and later Anna Maria Cotton were received again into the society and for some time the Monthly Meeting was held alternately at Kelvedon and Hobart Town and later when Launceston Monthly Meeting was formed the same procedure was followed between Kelvedon and Launceston.
 * The property area is 5300ha: it rises from sea level to 350m, and runs 10kms to the west into Native Old Growth Forests.
 * 1200ha of Forest has been set aside under the Private Forest Reserve Program to remain protected in perpetuity

This well known property is one of the east coast group of colonial gardens and buildings which have a different character from those in the rest of Tasmania; mainly by reason of a milder climate than the Midlands and the south. 'Kelvedon' is a typical representative of this significant group. The garden is also associated with two historic figures connected with botany and gardens, L Meredith and Dr Storey.
 * Register of the National Estate Record ID: 11719
 * 12 Macrocarpa Trees Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #73; PID 3142020

**Kelvedon Vinyard**
> In 2009 Kelvedon Estate won the prestigious Vineyard of the Year For the Cotton Family the venture into Viticulture has been a highly successful and rewarding diversification and blends well with the other enterprises traditionally carried out on the property.
 * Kelvedon was traditionally a fine wool sheep and Cattle property with some cropping, however in 1998 the family diversified into Viticulture. Initially 1ha of Pinot clones were planted and these vines form the foundation of the very successful Kelvedon Estate Label.
 * A FIFTH-GENERATION sheep farmer on Tasmania’s East Coast has won the coveted title for the state’s best vineyard for a second time.
 * Read more at The Mercury; **Email: **info@kelvedonestate.com.au

==  <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 25px;">Little Swanport ==

Index of Little Swanport heritage listings:

 * 1) LS1. Ile Des Phoques Nature Reserve, Little Swanport, TAS
 * 2) LS2. Indigenous Place (1) Little Swanport TAS
 * 3) LS3. Indigenous Place (2) Little Swanport TAS
 * 4) LS4. Lisdillon Homestead, Outbuildings & Stone Wall, 11264 Tasman Hwy, Little Swanport TAS
 * 5) LS5. Lisdillon Church, now Mitchell Cottage, 11257 Tasman Highway, Little Swanport TAS
 * 6) LS6. Lisdillon Salt Works Site, Saltworks Rd, Little Swanport, TAS, Australia
 * 7) LS7. Thalia Haven
 * 8) LS8. Mayfield RA 11610 Tasman Highway, Little Swanport TAS
 * 9) LS9. Muirlands Log Barn, Cottage & Blacksmith's Shop Tasman Hwy, Little Swanport TAS
 * 10) LS10. Ravensdale, RA 10137 Tasman Highway, Little Swanport
 * 11) LS11. Rose Cottage 11275 Tasman Highway, Little Swanport
 * 12) LS12. Spiky Bridge Tasman Highway, Swansea TAS
 * 13) LS13. Three Arch Bridge, 11830 Tasman Highway, Little Swanport TAS
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ldGrT_doTdxOrFAhAyYv0yQNjTl1MCuOPbay-QKq0ytWmL-HvNEPNRn005mYl09BHUWNWnPRF1XCDQ9bPRyETkhjzVSewH4Q7hCgRoXM4t2alAGhLBOEKXtotqVNRXxRCUd5NFWTaguvTBl6nWQeAO2L2Hq6wE_r_CtoIekVjpQ1VGISA0e-jMwZjAGXlXlT9-jq907oUyoJCBtXrwOt85NiEnCDmlF2JYaYhKmwC1IO_8yF-NMcgjYvhI7vcLURbV8vvEFWIBBPKtjS6nYObMvDNyjvUfjJzGHO7a1OfT6kpuIn8UgImjmX9sFvBRBpXv1rouheB0paPqqXtIqyhbLJo2GDV58JtbcDChLFi9gyveheqmOZcRl6-3v4ku6bz-dV-4KFp1L2PhEHaQLAGkTXtZcO0ErfHwx0SNF0kXXynfY1nIw1kXVZdAEOGQ2Mjhmeaf4Y1li1kxp8VLJS8ce3fOVqb99CfC0zL-8wkmj9WDd2vo27ldrZrBR7Q6h-YB-hwnTDdl_CFG1Y3S6aApfNGEKvmqAQ2L2RFX1Gg7ZiAoDMS1Pa5wGrfxT_ygiDn6Ee1TtJ9FgNX6WbedoLx143LPPta4yu-jpJkLwR5AAVeC_fTQ=w421-h645-no width="255" height="383"]] || [[image:http://maps.maphill.com/atlas/42s15-147e55/3d-maps/physical-map/fancy-physical-3d-map-of-little-swanport.jpg width="475" height="383" align="right" caption="Physical 3D Map of Little Swanport"]] ||
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[|Physical 3D Map of Little Swanport]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">**LS1. Ile Des Phoques Nature Reserve, Little Swanport, TAS**
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">

The **Ile Des Phoques** (French for Island of Seals) is an absolute haven for marine life and one of the best cold water dives in the world. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">//Ile des Phoques// is a rugged granite island, with an area of 8 ha, part of the Schouten Island Group, lying close to the eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia near the Freycinet Peninsula. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**Description**
 * You may like to take the opportunity to swim or snorkel with the seals
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">It is a nature reserve. [|Wikipedia].
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The island is an important Australian fur seal, arctocephelus PUSILLUS doriferus, haul-out site.
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Coastal processes have produced an oustanding example of submarine sea caves in granite.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Small exposed marine rocks with tussock grassland.
 * Condition and Integrity**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Because access is only by boat in extremely fine weather or by helicopter, the island recieves low levels of visitation. It is therefore in fairly good condition. The Parks and Wildlife Service keeps a shack on the island.

===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LS2. Indigenous Place <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Little Swanport TAS ===
 * No further information

===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LS3. Indigenous Place <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) Little Swanport TAS ===
 * No further information

===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LS4. Lisdillon Homestead, Outbuildings & Stone Wall, <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">11264 Tasman Hwy, Little Swanport TAS ===

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'normal Arial',Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"The Lisdillon homestead dates from the very early days of the colony. It stands on a gentle swell within quarter of a mile of the sea shore, having on both flanks and in front shubberies and gardens, in excellent order, full of English and colonial trees, plants, and flowers, now answering to the call of spring, modestly blooming and shedding fragrance from amid a luxurious vernal growth. +  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">A fine group of east coast vernacular stone buildings occupying an outstanding site sloping gently to the sea with views to the small Isle Des Phoques, inhabited by seals. Built in 1837, the group comprises the house, coach-house, stonemason's cottage, blacksmith shop, barn (in ruins) and fine stone walls.  ==== Murder and Mystery ====
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Classified in 1976
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Listed by the National Trust 1983
 * Listed on the Register of the National Estate Record ID: 11723
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #29; CT154403/1, CT154404/1, CT222860/1, CT33610/3, CT33611/2, CT33928/1, CT33929/1, CT8669/2
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1526
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The house is unpretentious as to architectural excellence, a plain ashlar building with the southern gable hid from sight under a natural drapery of ivy, and its front partially covered by pretty climbing plants."
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Lisdillon was an estate in Glamorgan, 7,800 acres, owned by Mr. Mark Mitchell, son of the late Mr. John Mitchell, M.H.A.
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">(To the) South it is bounded by Little Swanport, an estuary navigable for small vessels, and into which the Little Swanport River flows."
 * The farm was first surveyed by the owners’ ancestor, Francis Cotton, in 1830 and its tumultuous history reads like a Charles Dickens narrative. It is a tale of murder and mystery, wealth and misery.

The original owner of Lisdillon was an Englishman called James Radcliffe. He purchased the property and promptly established a salt works and sheep farm.
 * Radcliffe’s time at Lisdillon was brutally cut short when he was murdered on a trip back to England. His headless and mutilated remains were discovered some time later on Waterloo Bridge in London. Who, why and how this happened to poor Radcliffe remains a mystery.

The Premier
Amidst all this turmoil a man by the name of William Thomas Napier Champ, leased and lived at Lisdillon.
 * He later went on to become the first premier of Tasmania.

Prosperous Lisdillon Town
After the gradual crumble and failure of the Salt Works, Lisdillon, now owned by the Mitchell family, prospered under a tenant farm system.
 * The property became a small community where nine families formed a town.
 * It was a thriving little hub consisting of a store, pharmacy, church, school, and post office, as well as fielding its own football and cricket teams.

Truganinni Visits
While Lisdillon was still a town, George Robinson made a visit accompanied by Truganinni (considered to be the last full-blooded Tasmanian). ++
 * While she was there she made a basket comprised of grasses from Lisdillon and presented it to Mark Mitchell. Mark’s daughter, Sarah, later donated it to the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">Lisdillon's New Owners
Tragedy struck Lisdillon again when Mark Mitchell fell off his horse, breaking his collar-bone and becoming an invalid. He was unable to oversee the business of the farm so the property fell into debt and the town was gradually abandoned, leaving most of the buildings to deteriorate.
 * Lisdillon was eventually bought by Sir Henry Jones of IXL fame and later by the Hood family.
 * Douglas Cotton, Crispin’s father, bought back Lisdillon in the 1970s.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">Lisdillon Vineyard
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After working for many years as a sheep farmer, Crispin Cotton took the leap into viticulture on his historic property, Lisdillon. With Crispin’s venture into viticulture, the family hopes to add to the rich story of Lisdillon.
 * Crispin passed away in April 2014 and the vineyard has been taken over by his family Jane, Richard, Katherine and Chris.
 * They hope to follow and build on Crispin's plans.
 * Lisdillon’s natural beauty, with its pristine beaches, sparkling blue water, fine white sand, and views of Freycinet National Park, all add to its majesty. The jetty poles depicted on the label, are situated on Lisdillon Beach and are symbolic of the history behind the farm.

Description
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">One storey fieldstone house with attics. Sandstone quoins. Brick reveals and heads to openings (very large). One storey skillion on east side.
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Small verandah at rear. Four panel front door with half sidelights and semi eliptical fanlight. Generally small paned windows (replacements to main facade).
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">One storey coachouse converted to residence - stone, attics, stonemason's cottage, blacksmith shop (no roof) barn (in ruins).
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Outstanding site. Outstanding stone walls. Built for James Radcliff, an early settler.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lisdillon has strong meaning for the community because it demonstrates aspects of Colonial society and has a prominent position in the landscape. Lisdillon is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey (with attic) stone Old Colonial Georgian rural homestead with its associated outbuildings. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The main house is a single storey rubble stone structure (with attic) designed in the Old Colonial Georgian style with central panelled door with sidelights and radial fanlight, with two pairs of double hung windows to each side of the door. > "The cottage spoken of stands off the main road on a hillside terrace, in an embayed recess of the Rocky Hills, and has a trim garden and orchard, sloping to a creek below road level. A section of the ridge shelters the rear from westerly winds, and an abutting spur, separated from the cottage property by the road, protects from those blowing from the opposite quarter."
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">There is a modern verandah and three modern dormers to this front facade. To the north side there is a stone skillion.
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">There are several other stone buildings on the site including a coach house, shepherds cottage, blacksmith, water closets and several stone walls.
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Old Colonial Georgian
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Read more: Lisdillon Winery

===<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">LS5. Lisdillon Church, now Mitchell Cottage, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">11257 Tasman Highway, Little Swanport TAS ===

"Mitchell Cottage" is a unique piece of real estate, having been created by the current family in the mid 1960's. Originally it was part of the **Lisdillon farm**, which was settled by the Mitchell family. The church was erected specifically for the family and workers of the Lisdillon estate. The chapel doubled as a school room. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">A fine example of a small country Gothic stone church built in 1864 by John Mitchell. Although now transformed to a cottage the exterior of the building is intact and in good repair.
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Classified in 1976
 * Listed by the National Trust 1983
 * Listed on the Register of the National Estate Record ID: 11726
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #30; CT149134/1
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1527
 * Sold for $300,000<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> in Apr 2014
 * Lisdillon Church is of historic cultural heritage significance because of its association with the general community as a religious and townscape landmark.
 * Lisdillon Church is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a stone Victorian Free Gothic ecclesiastical building.
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Description: **

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">A small church with sandstone rubble walls and ashlar quoins and porch. The roof is corrugated iron and gabled, with boxed eaves. The east window is 4-part with simple bar tracery, the windows to the nave are similar and 2-part. The porch has bargeboards with simply-shaped ends, and a pendant and finial. The door is pointed-arch. >
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Free Gothic

===<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">LS6. Lisdillon Salt Works Site, Saltworks Rd, Little Swanport, TAS, Australia ===

**<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Statement of Significance **
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Classified in 1976
 * Listed on the Register of the National Estate Record ID: 18192
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #32; CT21686/29
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1529
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lisdillon Salt Works is an archaelogical site of an early nineteenth century salt works. The place is important for its association with a cultural phase when salt was needed as a food and hide preservative, for pottery manufacture and for soap manufacture (Criterion A.3).

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> The salt works are important as extant remains of the process of salt extraction by boiling seawater, a technology initially imported from England and no longer practised in England or Australia. It is one of only two salt manufacture sites in eastern Australia where there are substantial physical remains. The other is at Norfolk Island. (Criterion B.2).

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> The place demonstrates by its extant remains the characteristics of a nineteenth century technology as follows: apparent use of a heated drying floor, a split level building, the use of a windmill to deliver sea water, stone and mortar structural techniques and the substantial scale and substance of the walls (Criterion D.2).

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> The salt works have importance for technical innovation being the most substantial salt works of the era and for the use of windmill for pumping sea water, which is unknown for works of that time (Criterion F.1).


 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Description **

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The elements of the site consist of the ruined walls of a salt house, and living quarter, an excavated tank, windmill anchor bolts, and cottage rebuilt on the walls of a former overseer's cottage.

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> In 1819, James Radcliffe a settler was granted land at Little Swanport which he named 'Lisdillon'. In the 1820's he built a substantial two storey stone house about 3km north of the mouth of the Little Swanport River, which is still occupied today. Having established himself on his land Radcliffe proceeded to establish a salt works, there being no other local supply than the salt lagoons of Salt Pan Plain. The saltworks consisted of a large salt house, adjacent living quarters for the workmen, one (or possible two) shallow excavated tank(s), and at some distance from these a cottage for the overseer and a windmill on a nearby rocky headland.

Read More: On the Convict Trail: Lisdillon Salt Works

** LS7. ** ** Thalia Haven ** **,** ** 11460 Tasman Hwy, Little Swanport TAS 7190 **

 * Not Heritage Registered, Not a Heritage location, however the owners used heritage stone and timber materials for construction.
 * Thalia Haven at Little Swanport named Australia’s best property for romance - 2015

"We built Thalia as our weekend beach house. For years my husband wanted to buy something that was within driving distance of Hobart, north facing but which was isolated. The land became available by coincidence when we were visiting.
 * The purpose for the land all along here is for sheep grazing, but because this strip runs along the coast line and there is a beach, it was negating the value because you can’t run sheep on a beach. As a result, we were able to purchase (it) for a reasonable amount of money.
 * Building started in the early 2000s and we hired a husband and wife architect team (award winning Morrison & Breytenbach in West Hobart) who eventually became our personal friends.

The inspiration for the layout came from where we lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was an old candy factory. It was entirely open plan except for the bathroom.
 * Thalia Haven is set on a private 130-acre wooded peninsula surrounded by the crystal-blue waters of renowned Great Oyster Bay.
 * Five kilometres of secluded coastline including your own exclusive golden-sand beach.
 * The rugged, yet elegant house is set across four ancient-stone pavilions, clustered around olive tree courtyards on the ocean’s edge, sleeping up to 8 guests in style and comfort.
 * The residence is a bold yet congenial showcase of self reliance: your water, electricity, and warmth are drawn from its land, breezes, and sunshine. Thalia is off the grid - No TV & no WiFi for a blissful digital detox.

LS8. Mayfield RA 11610 Tasman Highway, Little Swanport TAS
A fine group dating from 1829 and comprising a two storey homestead (stone and stucco), stone bakehouse, brick mill, stone miller's cottage, a unique stone building incorporating six workers cottages and stone hop kilns.
 * Classified in 1976 (both Sides of the Road)
 * Registered on the National Estate 1983
 * Listed on the Register of the National Estate Record ID: 11721
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #28; CT112812/1, CT138104/1-6, CT139900/1-4, CT143068/1, CT204420/1, CT251152/3, CT32123/1
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1524
 * The buildings were constructed on an original grant to Thomas Buxton and are complemented by a fine landscape setting including an important historic garden.

Description:
Large two storey house with one storey side wing - twelve and sixteen pane windows. Stucco stone. Main facade three bays. Six panel front door with half sidelights, radial fanlight with coloured pattern glass - side French windows.
 * Small stone bakehouse with shingled roof. Important old garden. Fine brick mill with gable roof, remnants of wheel, stone lintels with brick relieving arches over. Fieldstone millers cottage with hip roof. Field stone workers cottages (six in one structure)-second storey dormer windows. Old hop kiln of fieldstone.
 * Mayfield is of historic cultural heritage significance for its ability to illustrate the historical and sequential subdivision of land in the outlying districts,and the pre-eminent social position of its 19th century owners. It also has the ability to demonstrate the development of rural industries such as hop growing and milling.
 * Mayfield is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of an Old Colonial Georgian rural homestead and a fine collection of outbuildings.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Old Colonial Georgian

**History of Mayfield**
- //from// GSBHS_Former_Times_Issue_6_lowres.pdf

Thomas Buxton was the first owner of Mayfield receiving a Location Order on 30/6/1823 for 500 acres of land.
 * Buxton was son of John Buxton of Mayfield House, Derby, England. He arrived in Hobart Town on 5th May 1821 on the vessel “Westmoreland” with his wife and family.[[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5ie4GBhihOiA8Iue-iQmRaj59cRh2v5LorrHDpOWYkM_SdxGFIL84qwA9MJwgs6DF-LuH9zTety-cqLaMKu08YUhaYdlDCFL8UTV_pCRAhvBTojIutvk3AzMOv2W3u8iUSn1lRUp70Wq1QYF3xEvLYwAZtIfW_JP6lElStgq--ZY42MK4JU6BaPbhFnYkHq_0phhtqwl3zwyU3rgPfIXOPZOOGiz6DaJhv5AAt8XS90rwwfC-9wSqpRtNogIvHTox1S34JGR936dS2AsK0sY_SXMcGyctpWUDqZso4leS90Ube6sTGXLW5LA2IU9Zde2Fmzob6qzlgQ4bOYS4y9VrKOinNxKYg9bg0-MlPyQ9rrGMx-POmMCFzCGzSdbrwkhEIKFfvkbJlJDaPPoORSG7BMl1oMUn4PsayuOx68mNzlQ4y3-0SDuuojrPRPvDdDte69UJ6y-bIBbtWLZZFUVbPbOuzKfH2ersvKnFx0z1QDtwqbGicO1WxSvSmZrTnui3RVJl7x_1jxLWdxV8VERCUNnxPJtzShOdms8YA2x2xNrSGXXtWMGKFiACwx51sKaYORbvaP7DtV-f05Ny7xfG2J4NCLIx8W6h37nwo3lxjg1SNr22w=w452-h387-no width="326" height="280" align="right" caption="Mayfield House C1970"]]
 * Later in the same year he settled in Great Swan Port at (old) Belmont, as an overseer for William Talbot, On the 21st May 1828 he was gazetted Division Constable and from 1828 to 1830 was pound keeper at Little Swan Port. He was dismissed from this position when he seized Mr. George Meredith’s boat because Meredith did not produce a Port Clearance.
 * On the 13th December 1928, he received a further Location Order for 780 acres. It is said that his additional land was given to him by Governor Arthur after the latter had been entertained to a meal at Mayfield during his tour up the coast in November 1828.
 * In 1830 Buxton took part in the Black Line Operation.

In 1836 he had the flour mill at **Mayfield** built. During the early days at Mayfield, Buxton like other settlers had a great deal of trouble from the aboriginals. When **Mayfield** first came on the market it belonged to a descendant of the Buxton’s, a Mr Morey. The property was sold by mistake on the part of a Hobart Lawyer.
 * Buxton’s first home was a sod hut, but in about 1825 a more durable structure of stone and brick was built. It was a one storey building, small with one half cellar room over which there was an attic.
 * So still remaining of the Buxton era, there is the house, the mill and the race down which flowed the water to drive the wheels of the mill. Further afield was the cemetery with headstones to members of the Buxton family and other people connected with the estate. The last burial was in 1929.
 * This was not discovered until after John Mitchell had bought it. He offered to forego the purchase but it was refused – 2 gentlemanly gentlemen!!

After John Mitchell of Lisdillon bought **Mayfield** in 1866, he set to work to improve the property. Hops were planted on the south side of Buxton’s Rivulet and on the north side towards the hills. When John Mitchell died in 1881, he left **Mayfield** to his son, Edwin Harry John Mitchell, who at 21, had left **Lisdillon** to gain experience on the mainland. He studied in Sydney, gained his licence as a surveyor and had his own team and plant. He was one of the first surveyors to survey land on the western side of the Blue Mountains.
 * He built 6 cottages, 3 on each side back to back. Across the old road was built a hop kiln.
 * He sent to Hobart for willow trees which he wanted to grow as protection for the vines against wind.... Remains of the willow tree plantings can be seen in the valley.
 * Edwin Mitchell carried on with improvements to the property. He built a dam across Buxton’s Rivulet about a mile due west of the main road. The property extended on both sides of the Rivulet for some distance. (The Rivulet rises practically from Lake Tooms.)
 * He brought the water by race with one gap in the fluming round in front of **Mayfield House** and over the ground on the sea side of the old cemetery and watered grass paddocks for the cows.
 * He was not very successful with wheat and went over to more sheep. Wool in those days brought from 4d – 6d a lb., later rising to 1/- a lb.
 * Edwin Mitchell used to export his wool in the barque “Ethel” and had it auctioned in London. He donated land to the Government so that a jetty would be rebuilt for the people of the district (1906-7).
 * Read more: GSBHS_Former_Times_Issue_6_lowres.pdf

Since 1934, Mayfield has passed through several hands: > Mr Cameron of the Nile, £40,000; Mr Palfreyman, £54,000;
 * Mr Les Roberts of the Huon who bought it for £8,400; Dr. Brettingham-Moore, £12,000;
 * and finally in 1969 to Mr R.B. Dunbabin.
 * The property has been passed on to son Bruce, a 5th generation Dunbabin farmer.
 * Written by Gloria Willis (with help from Joyce Dunbabin)

Robert Dunbabin
Robert lived a life dedicated to his family and his rural properties. Robert was brought up on the family property “//Marchwiel//” in Bream Creek.
 * He left Clemes College at fifteen because of his father’s illness. Times were not easy and with two sisters and a brother to be educated Robert accepted his role to work the property, later joined by his brother Jim.
 * He married Joyce and as well as working “Marchwiel”, they built their house.

With Joyce and their three school age sons he moved to “**Mayfield**” in 1969, leaving the family property for his brother Jim.
 * At “Mayfield” Robert successfully developed a fine wool stud and won many prizes at Campbell Town Show with his fine wool fleeces.
 * He developed a great interest in making and mending all in sundry in his workshop. This became evident when he eventually retired to Swansea and occupied his time in his beloved workshop.
 * All his life he worked very hard and was able to purchase and provide his sons with properties: “**Mayfield**” for Bruce, “**Milton**” for Michael and an engineering degree and “**Burnside**” for Timothy.
 * About the only time he ever left his property was to attend a sporting event which one of his sons was taking part.

LS9. Muirlands Log Barn, Cottage & Blacksmith's Shop Tasman Hwy, Little Swanport TAS

 * Tasman Highway, just east of bridge over Little Swanport River, Little Swanport.
 * Registered in 1976
 * Registered on the National Estate 1983
 * Listed on the Register of the National Estate Record ID: 11728
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #27; CT33784/1
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1523
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Gx1hLf6HCCu3E-501QtmzJnNIBg7rQ3nECrtIu-lv6kcsy2b7HQJRlEgtw-zXTBIf9JEfFxl-CJAQyaH4RUm0BG6gNiVb-u-JWSctXyCBmmfACsTWiqDPWHT9q29qaMleUO4Xg8WsV60AzxGnzPQsv8FhQLwgXSpiXqP1CuH7zASIHmNN-BWGXeOTGl326HH7BqUIiDzhr92vLK6WMeqXWV3_lnNhqZZfG9ofzLlhKCLqjBxcYr9oBqeezJyJmwniVg7DULWFS_-_J6g5OZdqIIx5fY3yh6e1ErAp9gRdt24qzJDYlZ8eVUEGtBazcW871iCMpjERI6SUDzR93S_TJ5EmBC1HbVuHyhJCEN7ZecwXhJADJRIGC-zewQOkqNAKLtUmiwx8BCJZorG906JYkVBLm65zQSovFTpfUdeXN-m04_ZLu4wSRigSk1LEOm1Y20JL8xQ9yEd5M5bQLmBO2WtrufgtkWig-QAVNaJrgniIYBHZwp1_4bdBAN6vN4KcNTRypmh2Khb9Y1CebzTSncktX7qSauQwRRv7W6NjUw9b7VqBZFCxPdb8P8xk8HY6ijUNLG2NMg33RpZdooy64RK8o-Z9M4TClJYwsWFlr-yfiYr6Q=w500-h365-no caption="Muirlands old homestead heritage buildings" link="@https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterhut/5639311460/in/album-72157616109673852/"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MxD-Bbq0it98lOKHi-9vim818fJqQ2IXcuZvNyNbUejiOUIt8UVj-XxwFmpkUOfYI18BESUO0iFUncaUHjyrhYvjHxB_e-gPcQz_RDyPgntT4syjl078VE1X3aQesJXTTiZNWA8JmzFa__qiTWvXSTeG9vUKZrSVZKsR5oBBE9CrAzxkS_0s-M2NelHoZbM31kIG2iS32tmYnjrZJfYE98OurogkEyKXsyJN_GKZzoyDkgEF7SQdncz1EjShzYwZ4NBRAAMbZe4fUVKjiGcSH2VfwADg_tDnaNXduiZ89mNggEwLQHSDEVaHt8FuW2IMV89uG3FqCqVBk8-_uhV8mAnPxjwRq2Q_ztDTIgc5RDV-LoGH4FR1v2uqX78vn3egTqrE825IQKXOmx937FK5beeDr4zZfXSVsrgFkUkzPVsDi7ZRd6zM6JKNTq6gRrghCP6RZADlLxxI1WglSN85et42VkF4rB6nTTKLYrb_0i9LuG813QUqNLKFgFzh9XKAP1qpgtAX5rNB6Ae6vjzEUZ-gBzgtDqntRUE99k0An8nQxsvSzfNOvfCvJDqNm9I8jGFxRGhWPxRezl-oFLpJPfZeOGkDSXvd30WqX8zv4NCd7Lg9CQ=w400-h262-no width="558" height="369" caption="Muirlands Sale Notice (1982)" link="@https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterhut/5638737159/in/album-72157616109673852/"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5exb-UylvQJNAo3On4-JJZckW6ntdWCUnk6FvNI5GpNJ6yda0wiREvImSccKMFoAxri74nFafJJHSiwDNilvyogIlSuLixZqjGWHqUbGgWsQhVDoSMhHB2XfE33_H961mWH1-yWRAa5HGMPS-_r4UTHYAaPsQCq8TQasYSoDVz84OBQSuO_alZFHDB72cKr2YX-Fiwv5DQvP7Fk0JsU77BblYCS6LSyKFNCTfuzpKHk49yroZ1SLRfEW6ZXqMspjDTmhESG5DMnD982jdrBSVi5nH51g5TdDopiMWn-BgLpDUoU3b-MmFPsgp6U7ha_BS4ksZfYUSC8X_q_6OjSzkAd2_Z_CLgrvCr446L2qNU07k76bnMcjpxtK5TNMvbAaGDNGvww47PiJrdyx2ZH_AkFFw33UJ1riKg8_Srh3Ba8Kn600V8GHvw8e_s1LO2Z9lFETqAeLVH756fqULDvCx8dvq22hyBPt2yesTyUeWnpxcKNFuFSbXaMlPMaDWhmallLchDiJWn2AEiw1PM1dbHVvNCV1bDlAtS311Oy-lDOPlcQth756w9U7JWsj3HZdjzVlBsjonUsH1njsy4vRJF3bU_NheqakUjrVtlcO6YOaP_fSKg=w500-h333-no caption="Old Farm Hut, Little Swanport, former Muirland property. C early 1880's" link="@https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterhut/8848780034/in/album-72157616109673852/"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/B47s7eYIiVmQjz-vXhBl5w3-TtVEvi4J8QcAK3fqwVV8BisYqQMf5BUF7Ht-n6A2qHo-lmlPlR2JT8vv6KHJEGIaSkBuOURvGLU0k0fgaTkIZyZhA1jIsUd8bpbrcZF5nCBs1pPQlAi8aX_DDiVDAUvk6KlmRDYAs6nsIUShSFX0CvkRPKIUluvnT4KuIAn0RoDGsevtIFB3vv4HT_5Hxba3KUMlMnxfDOQdS_xpLLFGG6eEusWfRIEVH0Z2eotfZ0KJW_yEkKq372iVkuD4K1lFXa-58uu1RRi02vTj6V7VrAH7bAgDgxedeRw1_YI7jooCruoIMzvm-wr-vNDbJAOTrMjMNqb9BoDEIfJ8_YuxqwpBjuB6clk8N1b8q_nzxi9ogs_CwiAOtPPsAsC7nyGjQd3HRBlJpP6L194yUE8C5b8vqqCmjJQi4ZdwCR8BF2SbeMDzTUQWw7BVyj-82OSH92mJWCUfUFYEdLDMJC63nNkzsIyFHRloM2kSgMEsMaKjIKt2ou645QnDnIcGQYf7A7BD_z7WLozrCnVohU_nxZR9aOh503CLmHnCfMlf3xHJ8H2o7gd74dSM_koeKWZd9tGbJ9SkeKh3JXq2zM_7eWOoiw=w550-h410-no width="430" height="324" caption="Muirlands - Cobb & Co Stage Coach Stables" link="@https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterhut/3397128351/in/album-72157616109673852/"]] ||

"Little Swanport is only a place in name, for there is only one dwelling on the bay, and that is the residence of Mr Mitchelmore." <span style="font-family: 'normal Arial',Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;"> A small group of now quite scarce log structures comprising a log barn and log cottage and complemented by a yard surrounded by choc n' log fences. All these timber structures are basically intact and in original condition and demonstrate building functions no longer practised.
 * He has a holding of 2,400 acres, and grazes most of it. The post office is attached to his residence.
 * [Illustration: Mr Mitchelmore in his orchard on 'Muirlands' (orchards established 1850s), east coast Tasmania.]

Description
A simple log barn with gable roof, a cottage of similar construction with a field stone chimney and several chock and log fences.

Mentioned in the press:
1884: THURSDAY, January 17. The Muirland Estate and Land at Little Swanport, and Farm at Pittwater: THE VALUABLE ESTATE AT LITTLE SWANPORT, known as MUIRLAND,
 * Containing 2,195 acres, situate on both sides of the Swanport River, and recently in the occupation of the late Mr. John Radford.
 * There are 50 acres in cultivation, the remainder good sheep run. The improvements comprise a **stone dwelling-house**, etc, etc.
 * 1904: [|landholders]MUIRLANDS NO 3 PTY LTD, MITCHELMORE W C AND OTHERS

Muirland Federation Homestead
Muirland Homestead and Farm has a great Flickr photographic album by Peter Hut featuring the beautiful Federation Muirland Homestead.

LS10. Ravensdale, RA 10137 Tasman Highway, Little Swanport

 * Tasman Highway, Ravensdale, 7km south of Little Swanport.


 * Classified in 1976
 * Listed on the Register of the National Estate Record ID: 1538
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #33; CT118343/1, CT37307/28, CT44351/1, CT220630/1
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1538

About two miles on the Spring Bay side of Little Swanport is the Ravensdale Estate, belonging to the Salier family. <span style="font-family: 'normal Arial',Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;"> Ravensdale is a single storey (with attic) sandstone house in the Old Colonial Georgian style. An elongated stone vernacular house built before 1850 with later integrated additions.
 * It contains 6,000 acres, and is tenanted by Mr A Ferguson, who in the past has grazed it all. Should a desirable amount of rain fall this autumn the lessee intends to cultivate 50 or 60 acres. Most of the country enclosed in Ravensdale is hilly.
 * A stone barn of the same period is located near the house.
 * The approach along an avenue of poplar trees enhances the visual value of the house.

There are two principal entrances, as if a very early modification has moved the front entry.
 * One entrance has a panelled door under a substantially reconstructed verandah, external decorative stone architraves around the door, double hung small paned windows to either side, and a protuding gable to one end.
 * The gable end has double hung windows at both ground and upper floor levels.
 * The second entrance is under another verandah, is also a panelled door and has double hung small paned windows to each side.
 * Internal joinery is substantially intact from the Colonial Georgian period.
 * The stable is a stone structure with gabled roof and corrugated iron cladding, and a modern extension to one end replacing earlier construction. There is also a c.1930 Dairy/Freezer to the rear of the main house.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Old Colonial Georgian

Description
Large house probably built in two or more stages. It has a one and a half storey wing with two pitched gable roof and later dormers, six panel door, twelve pane windows and one storey verandah.
 * Also one storey section with hipped roof, twelve pane windows, verandah, and central six panel door with Regency transom light.
 * Walls of rough tooled stone also small barn/stable building of squared rubble with dressed quoins.
 * Garden and avenues of poplars enhance house considerably.

Condition and Integrity
Many windows are now missing their glazing bars. Later additions and dormer windows should be removed.

LS11. Rose Cottage 11275 Tasman Highway, Little Swanport
This building is of historic heritage significance because its townscape associations are regarded as important to the communitys sense of place. Rose Cottage is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey, sandstone Victorian Georgian domestic building.
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #31; CT40811/1
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1528
 * Sale photos


 * Description:**

A symmetrical, single storey, sandstone rubble building with a corrugated iron gabled roof, boxed eaves, and simple chimneys with external stacks.
 * The door is central with a gabled porch, with a window on either side.
 * Above each ground floor window is a gabled dormer window to the attic. All the windows are double-hung with large panes.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian

===LS12. Spiky Bridge Tasman Highway, Swansea TAS===
 * Tasman Highway - western side - 8 km south of Swansea;
 * formerly //La Farelles Bridge//


 * Classified in 1976
 * Registered on the National Estate 1983
 * Listed on the Register of the National Estate Record ID: 11694
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #67; CT40/3839
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1567

The Spiky Bridge is part of the old convict coach road that connected Swansea with Little Swanport and the east coast road to Hobart. It sits beside the current east coast highway, approx 7kms south of Swansea.

By the 1820’s the reaches of white settlement were being pushed further up Tasmania’s east coast. Settlers such as George Meredith and Francis Cotton, were drawn to the area by the prospects of farming and whaling. Despite constant complaints from the settlers to the Government regarding the lack of road access, by 1840 there was still no road between Little Swanport and the Swansea district. <span style="font-family: 'normal Arial',Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;">
 * **Read more**: On the Convict Trail: The Spiky Bridge

An unusual stone bridge, more like a causeway, built in the period 1845-48 by convicts from the Rocky Hills probation station, the structure is an edifice to convict craftmanship. Previously La Farelles bridge, its present name derives from the distinctive parapets.

Description
Field stone bridge. Appears to be dry stonework. Side walls of random rubble being more a causeway with small arched culvert.
 * Stone buttresses on west side beside central channel. Lower side of west wall (sloping side) was strengthened during 1920's.
 * Bridge parapets with large and small upright stones give present name.
 * Built by convicts from Rocky Hills Probation Station 1843.

LS13. Three Arch Bridge, 11830 Tasman Highway, Little Swanport TAS
This small bridge, consisting of three arches, was built in 1845 by convict labor from the nearby Rocky Hills Probation Station, probably as part of the old convict built coach road which connected Swansea with Little Swanport along the east coast road to Hobart. (Now known as the A3 Tasman Highway)
 * Classified in 1976
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #26; PID 5273710
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1522
 * **Read more:** On the Convict Trail: Three Arches Bridge Mayfield[[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dnhzFoycdhA/UVi7fLIPKgI/AAAAAAAAB8A/eeCe_d0OVGU/s400/DSC04454.JPG align="right" caption="Three Arch Bridge, Mayfield Beach" link="@http://ontheconvicttrail.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/three-arches-bridge-mayfield-beach.html"]]
 * Location**: Over Old Man Creek before Mayfield Camping Ground (southern side) on Tasman Highway
 * Sandstone bridge with three arches. The top arches are capped with bricks.
 * The bridge was erected by convicts from nearby Rocky Hills Probation Station.
 * Three Arch Bridge is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the growth and development of the transport system in Colonial Tasmania, and particularly the use of convict labour in such developments.
 * Three Arch Bridge is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of an early nineteenth century convict built sandstone bridge.

The bridge spans the outlet of the Old Man Creek at Mayfield Beach, approx 14kms south of Swansea on the east coast of Tasmania. We are very fortunate that the bridge was saved from destruction when the new road bridge was constructed over the top and that we can still see this wonderful piece of early colonial engineering. The site has been promoted via tourism websites, by the local tourist information centre and by the Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife service who have erected signs at the Mayfield Beach camp grounds directing people to the site.
 * Description**: It is a sandstone bridge with three arches. The top of the arches are capped with brick.
 * It now has the existing east coast road built over the top of it. Fortunately the old bridge can still be viewed by walking 40m along a sign posted track down from the Mayfield Beach camping ground car park or by walking along the beautiful beach.
 * The arches are only very small and I had to stoop very low to walk through the arch from one end to the other.
 * It's a fantastic small piece of our colonial history.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Stone arched bridge

**Maria Island**
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #777777; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Island in Tasmania, Australia
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #34; Maria Island and Isle du Nord
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1531

Index of heritage of Maria Island:

 * 1) M1. Darlington Probation Station French Farm Coastal Route, Darlington, TAS
 * 2) M2. Maria Island Convict Sites, Darlington via Triabunna TAS
 * 3) M3. Maria Island Marine Region Orford, TAS
 * 4) M4. Maria Island National Park Triabunna, TAS

Most built elements on Maria Island are situated at either Darlington village or Point Lesueur and present as both ruins and complete buildings within the largely natural landscape. > 1. Darlington Probation Station French Farm Coastal Route Darlington, TAS, Australia (Listed place - National Heritage List) > 2. Maria Island Convict Sites Darlington via Triabunna, TAS, Australia (National Estate Registered) > 3. Maria Island Marine Region Orford, TAS, Australia (National Estate Registered) > 4. Maria Island National Park Triabunna, TAS, Australia (National Estate Registered)
 * The whole island is protected for Tasmanian Heritage (ID 1531)
 * There are four protected areas around this island:

Each area is expanded upon below... <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Maria Island is a mountainous island located in the Tasman Sea, off the east coast of Tasmania, Australia. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1a0dab; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[|Wikipedia]
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There are numerous built, archaeological and landscape features dating from various periods scattered throughout the island. The island was named in 1642 by Dutch explorer [|Abel Tasman]after Maria van Diemen (née van Aelst), wife of [|Anthony van Diemen], the [|Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies] in [|Batavia]. The island was known as Maria's Isle in the early 19th century.[|[2]]
 * There is one town on Maria Island, called Darlington.
 * It lies near the northern tip of the island. Darlington has many wonderful old buildings and it has no permanent inhabitants other than a few park rangers.
 * During the summer holiday period, up to several hundred tourists visit the island. [|Tourism] is important to the local economy.

A Rich History
The story of Maria Island is dominated by the sea: from the rise and fall of the sea that created the island and left a legacy of sea creatures fossilised in its cliffs, to the history of its human occupation. As you cross to the island you follow in the wake of Aboriginal tribes who for thousands of years made regular canoe crossings to the island they knew as TOARRA-MARRA-MONAH.

By 1825 Maria had become a penal settlement. Just as quickly convicts were making their escape across the water.
 * One unlucky group drifted across the channel on a raft only to walk ashore into the arms of two lost police constables!
 * The island was soon infamous for the number of escapes and was known among convicts as a place of ease.
 * By 1832 the convict settlement was abandoned in favour of Port Arthur.
 * From 1842 it was used as a convict probation station, but by 1850 this mainly agricultural station was also abandoned.
 * However this was not the end of settlement here. To discover the full, rich history of the island, see the [|Maria Island] section within the Visitor's Guide to Historic Places.

Abundant Wildlife
You will soon notice the special nature of the wildlife on this island. Since the late 1960s Maria has become a kind of Noah's Ark, as a number of threatened species have been introduced here in a bid to protect their kind. The endangered [|forty spotted pardalote] is a famous local bird found here in good numbers, along with the white gum //(Eucalyptus viminalis)// that is essential to its survival.
 * The very things that made the island a convict settlement, now make it an ideal refuge for plant and animal species that are elsewhere under threat.
 * So alongside native [|pademelons] which occurred on the island naturally, are [|Forester kangaroos] and [|Bennetts wallabies] which have been introduced to the island. [|Cape Barren geese] and [|Tasmanian native hens] have also been introduced.


 * Statement of Significance: **

Maria Island is of historic heritage significance as it possesses a collection of built, archaeological and landscape features which have the ability to demonstrate the growth and development of both the convict system and industry on the island.
 * Remnants of the Bernacchi Period (1884-1895) represent the flamboyant aspirations of Diego Bernacchi and his struggles with both remoteness and the depression of the 1890s. Bernacchi conceived a grand scheme for the Island and inspired workers and investors in pursuits of silk, wine and cement manufacturing, a health resort and other associated activities.
 * Maria Island has particular associations with the political prisoner William Smith OmBrien.
 * Diego Bernacchi and various prominent farming families including the Dunbabins, Robeys and Frenches, who all lived there.
 * The Maria Island Convict Sites contains remnants of the four main periods of European activity on the Island,
 * the **First Convict Period** (1825-1830),
 * the **Second Convict Period** (1842-1851),
 * the **Bernacchi Period** (1884-1895) and
 * the **Industrial Period** (1921-1930).
 * The Darlington Probation Station, located at the northern end of Maria Island, was first established as a convict station in 1825-1832 and re-settled as a probation station from 1842-50.
 * It is the best surviving example of all the probation stations in Tasmania.
 * Maria Island is of cultural heritage significance because it has the potential to yield information about the history of convict transportation in Australia.

Aborigines
Maria Island has a rich history. Before the colonial era, [|Aboriginal people] of the Tyreddeme band of the Oyster Bay tribe journeyed regularly to the island and much evidence of their presence remains, particularly around the bays on either side of the island's isthmus.[|[3]]
 * In 1802 the French expedition led by [|Nicolas Baudin] encountered the Aboriginal people of Maria Island, as did the [|whalers] of the early 19th century.
 * [|René Maugé], the zoologist on Baudin's expedition, was buried on Point Maugé on south Maria Island.

Convicts
The island's first convict era was between 1825 and 1832 and its second - the probation station era - between 1842 and 1851.For two periods during the first half of the 19th century, Maria Island hosted convict settlements.
 * Among those held during the second era was the [|Irish nationalist] leader [|William Smith O'Brien], exiled for his part in the [|Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848]. His cottage still exists in the nearby former penal colony Port Arthur to where he was deported after his time on Maria Island.
 * He was later transferred to [|New Norfolk] on the [|Derwent River] upstream of [|Hobart].

Three structures from the first convict era remain in the Darlington area:
 * 1) the Commissariat Store built in 1825 and presently used as the park's reception and visitor centre;
 * 2) the convict penitentiary, completed in 1828 and now used to accommodate visitors rather than detain them; and
 * 3) the convict-built dam on Bernacchis Creek, which still provides Darlington's water.

Read more: Maria Island - A Brief History

===M1. Darlington Probation Station French Farm Coastal Route, Darlington, TAS===

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 * Classified in 1976
 * Listed on the Register of the National Estate Record ID: 105933
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1531

Most built elements on Maria Island are situated at either Darlington village or Point Lesueur and present as both ruins and complete buildings within the largely natural landscape. The Darlington Precinct contains the most intact convict probation station and is therefore considered a significant place in Australia’s cultural history.

The probation system
The probation system was a form of convict management in Eastern Australia that was implemented between 1839 and 1854 at which time the transportation of convicts in Eastern Australia ceased.
 * Previous to the introduction of the probation station, most convicts were assigned to private masters or into government service.
 * The assignment system however was severely criticised in Britain because it did not consistently provide for the controlled punishment and reform of convicts. Its critics likened it to slavery which had been outlawed by the British Government.

Probation was a uniquely Australian approach to convict management intended to provide punishment to ensure that transportation remained a deterrent, but also provided opportunities for reform and betterment. > He governed Tasmania at a time when transportation to NSW had ceased and large numbers of convicts were being transported.
 * The probation system classified convicts into different classes which then determined the labour they undertook, their living arrangements and any privileges.
 * The probation system was developed and implemented by Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania from 1837-1843.

Darlington Probation station operated from 1842-1850 and was one of at least 78 probation stations established in Tasmania. The intactness of the 13 buildings and structures and their relationship with each other uniquely demonstrate the philosophy behind the probation system.With a natural environment setting that has few competing elements, the precinct possesses a rare sense of place. >>
 * The Darlington Precinct is the most representative and intact probation station having thirteen buildings and other structures directly associated with the operation of the probation station.
 * These include ruins of separate apartments, ruins of convict barracks and chapel, bakehouse, cookhouse, officers’ quarters, oast house/hop kilns and miller’s quarters and mill foundations.
 * These buildings and structures are in a natural setting with few competing elements. The place therefore exhibits a sense of what it would have been like during convict times.
 * The buildings remaining at the precinct illustrate the probation system philosophy.
 * The mess hall and school room represent the education of convicts.
 * The chapel, clergyman’s quarters and religious instructor’s quarters depict the focus on religious schooling.
 * The prisoner’s barracks and ruins of the separate apartments demonstrate the classification system for convicts, whereby well behaved convicts could live together in dormitories while the worst class was housed in separate apartments.
 * The solitary cells demonstrate the use of isolation for punishment.
 * The convict barn and oast house/hop kilns represent some of the task work undertaken by the convicts.
 * No other probation station in Tasmania, or Australia is able to demonstrate this strong association as effectively as Darlington Probation Station.

Bernacchi Periods
Darlington also contains rare evidence of many industrial and agricultural processes from the convict periods of settlement.
 * The planning, structures and archaeology from the Bernacchi Periods of development at the Darlington Historic Precinct (1884-1896 & 1920-1930) contains rare evidence of late 19th and early 20th century attempts at planned industrial settlements in Australia.
 * In Tasmania the first Bernacchi industrial settlement (the Maria Island Company was floated in 1887) precedes other iconic and ultimately more successful industrial settlements - the Mt Lyell mine on the West Coast (est. 1892) and Hobart's E.Z. Risdon enterprise (est.1916).
 * In particular the relatively intact c. 1886 Bernacchi's Terraces and 1888 Coffee Palace at Darlington demonstrate how late 19th century Australian industrial entrepreneurs set up landscaped `company' towns complete with residential, educational, recreational and external tourism facilities, in the manner of the model British industrial town precedents.

===M2. Maria Island Convict Sites, Darlington via Triabunna TAS===

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 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #34; Maria Island and Isle du Nord
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1531

The Maria Island Convict Sites contains remnants of the four main periods of European activity on the Island,
 * 1) the **First Convict Period** (1825-1830),
 * 2) the **Second Convict Period** (1842-1851),
 * 3) the **Bernacchi Period** (1884-1895) and
 * 4) the **Industrial Period** (1921-1930).

The Darlington Probation Station, located at the northern end of Maria Island, was first established as a convict station in 1825-1832 and re-settled as a probation station from 1842-50. It is the best surviving example of all the probation stations in Tasmania. (Criteria D.2)
 * The Darlington Probation Station and the Long Point Probation Station, located at the western side of Maria Island, are important for their association with the history of convict transportation in Australia and with the elaborate probation system which was developed in Tasmania and was unique to Tasmania.
 * The system was based on the idea that convicts could make amends and be redeemed for their crimes through systems of controlled labour.
 * Convicts worked on public works through a series of stages of labour, each stage of which was less controlled until the convict was deemed suitable for release.
 * The probation system represents the best expression of this common theme in the history of convict transportation and echoes the development of penal philosophy in Britain.
 * The Stations are also significant for their potential to contribute to an understanding of the operations of probation stations. (Criteria A.4 and C.2, Historic Theme: 2.3 Coming to Australia as punishment)

Remnants of the **Bernacchi Period** (1884-1895) represent the flamboyant aspirations of Diego Bernacchi and his struggles with both remoteness and the depression of the 1890s.
 * Bernacchi conceived of a grand scheme for the Island and inspired workers and investors in pursuits of silk, wine and cement manufacturing, a health resort and other associated activities. (Criteria A.4, Historic Theme: 3.10 Altering the environment for economic development, and 3.12 Developing an Australian manufacturing capacity)

Remnants of the **Industrial Period** (1921-1930) are significant for their association with the 1924 Cement Works of the National Portland Cement Company which were technologically advanced for their time. (Criteria F.1)

The Maria Island Convict Sites are within the Maria Island National Park which is entered in the Register of the National Estate.
 * The Commission has determined that the Maria Island National Park has Indigenous values of national estate significance.
 * The Commission is currently consulting with relevant Indigenous communities about the amount of information to be placed on public record.

===M3. Maria Island Marine Region Orford, TAS===

Maria Island is 8km off the eastern coast of Tasmania. The Maria Island marine region represents most of the habitat types found on the Tasmanian east coast, and is largely representative of the cool temperate Maugean biogeographic province.
 * The variety of geological formations which extend offshore at Maria Island (dolerite, granite, limestone and sandstone) allow a large number of subtidal habitats to exist in close proximity.
 * There are large submarine caverns and tunnels in the limestone bedrock at Fossil Bay which contrast with the more rounded granite blocks and moderate cave development on much of the east coast.
 * The dolerite habitats on the west coast have poor cave development, the dolerite breaking into rocks varying in size between cobbles and huge boulders.

The reserve protects a representative range of the marine habitats found on Tasmania’s east coast. On the more sheltered western shore, which is protected from fishing, large southern rock lobsters abound and the numbers of reef fish, such as bastard trumpeter, banded morwong and boarfish, have greatly increased since the reserve was declared in 1991.
 * These include seagrass, sand and reefs with a range of rock types (dolerite, siltstone, sandstone, and limestone) and wave exposures (from sheltered to fully exposed).
 * In Fossil Bay on the exposed north coast, deep gutters, overhangs and caves (extending up to 40 m into the limestone cliffs) form spectacular seascapes both above and below the water.
 * Seahorses and weedy seadragons are commonly sighted, while fascinating species such as warty prowfish and red velvetfish hide amongst sponges and algae.
 * The area contains species including the kelps Macrocystis pyrifera and Lessonia CORRUGATA which are not found on the northern Tasmanian coast or the mainland, and is the southernmost limit of some warm temperate species such as the boarfish and castelnau's wrasse.
 * The area has very high species diversity due to the range of habitats. The area has High aesthetic value with spectacular underwater scenery which is extremely varied.

===M4. Maria Island National Park Triabunna, TAS===

<span style="font-family: 'normal Arial',Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;"> Maria Island consists of two islands joined by a low, narrow isthmus. The eastern coastline between Barren Head and Cape Bald consists of a series of rounded granite headlands and cliff lines which reach to 140 m in height at Mistaken Cape. > McRaes Isthmus which joins the two islands is formed by the hind dunes of Shoal and Riedle Bays.
 * Listed on the Register of the National Estate 1983
 * Listed on the Tasmanian Heritage Register. Record ID: 1531
 * The Maria Range forms the spine of the northern island, extending from Bishop and Clerk (630 m) in the north, south to Mt Maria (709 m) and ending at Perpendicular Mountain (340 m).
 * The eastern slope from the ridgeline to the coast is broken by the East Shelf at an altitude of 350-500 metres, the western slope consists of a steep ridge system which grades into a series of low hills. Scree slopes have formed on both the eastern and western sides of the range.
 * In the north, coastal cliffs rise to 300 m at Fossil Bay.
 * The western coastline is comprised of dune-barred lagoons behind a series of sandy beaches, interspersed with dolerite and sandstone points. Creeks drain east and west from the Maria Range.
 * Compared with the northern part, the southern part of the island is an area of lower and gentler relief rising to Middle Hill (300 m).
 * The major ridgeline of the southern island consists of Big, Middle and Bottom Hills and ends in the dolerite pillars of Cape Peron.
 * Creeks drain radially from the main line of hills on the island. Two intermittent waterfalls occur on McGuiness Creek and Pine Hut Creek at the southern edge of the shelf and there is another waterfall in the upper reaches of Counsel Creek.

Maria Island National Park has an exceptionally high diversity of forest communities, with 24 dry sclerophyll, wet sclerophyll and mixed forest communities occurring within the area.
 * Relict rainforest patches are found in fire protected high altitude areas.
 * The island is of high significance as a major refuge in Tasmania for rare and uncommon plant species with 26 such species known.
 * In addition EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS tall forests occur only on Maria island.
 * Maria Island National Park is important for the representation of forest communities. There are 13 representative dry sclerophyll communities and 10 representative wet sclerophyll communities.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 25px; vertical-align: top;">**Orford**

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Index of Orford Heritage Sites:

 * 1) O1. Old Convict Road, Orford TAS
 * 2) O2. Former Post Office (Sanda House), 33 Walpole Street, Orford TAS
 * 3) O3. Holkham 59 Tasman Highway, Orford TAS
 * 4) O4. Malunnah 5 Prosser River Road Orford TAS
 * 5) O5. Paradise Probation Station Station Creek Orford
 * 6) O6. Quarry and Tramline Cutting, East Shelly Road, Luther Point, Orford, TAS
 * 7) O7. Prosser Convict Station Alma Road Orford
 * 8) O8. Rheban Stables 1019 Rheban Road, Rheban via Orford
 * 9) O9. Rheban Grave Vault, 1019 Rheban Road, Rheban via Orford
 * 10) O10. Rheban Spit Private Sanctuary Rheban Rd, Rheban via Orford TAS
 * 11) O11. Stapleton House, 460 Rheban Road Spring Beach, Tas 7190
 * 12) O12. Three Thumbs State Reserve and Adjacent Area, Orford, TAS, Australia
 * 13) O13. Wielangta Refugia Site, Orford, TAS
 * 14) O14. Wielangta township and Tramline to Coast at Rheban

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">**Orford** is a village on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia 73 kilometres north-east of Hobart. The village is centred on the mouth of the Prosser River, on the southern margin of a substantial coastal inlet called Prosser Bay. [|Wikipedia] > Read More: Orford Now and Then Read More: Orford Now and Then ||  || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em;">**Heritage of Orford Tasmania** Very anomalous results! The Commonwealth lists three times the Tasmanian Heritage listings! > Maria Island is listed three times, 3 other properties not actually at Orford, so 6 entries including two convict sites and National Parks > No convict sites or National Parks, including a double listing of Malunnah, so five sites > Maria Island is listed once as <No Entry> THR #1531 not at Orford; Other convict sites and Parks are not listed.
 * The town was named by Edward Walpole, who was granted 1,000 acres (4 km2) in the area in 1831. He named his grant "Strawberry Hill", after the London residence of his relative Horace Walpole who was the Third [|Earl of Orford].
 * The town was first established as a mainland port for the convict settlement on Maria Island. However, the marine infrastructure never consisted of more than a few short jetties in shallow waters just inside the mouth of the river which still remain today. The narrow channel at the river's mouth is flanked by a substantial sandbar, rendering the river unsuitable for larger vessels.
 * The larger township of [|Triabunna] approximately 6 km north is the main port in the area, and is home base for the region's fishing and timber industries, as well as the ferry service operating to and from Maria Island.
 * Orford Post Office opened on 1 September 1870.[|[2]]
 * [[image:http://web.archive.org/web/20120317054310im_/http://www.orford.tased.edu.au/Mrs.Haines%20%26%20Mrs.%20Harry%20Turvey%20on%20Orford%20Road%20FIF3_small.jpg width="100" height="69" link="@http://web.archive.org/web/20120317054310/http://www.orford.tased.edu.au/Mrs.Haines%20%26%20Mrs.%20Harry%20Turvey%20on%20Orford%20Road%20FIF3.jpg"]] [[image:http://web.archive.org/web/20120317054310im_/http://www.orford.tased.edu.au/paradise%20coach_small.JPG width="100" height="68" link="@http://web.archive.org/web/20120317054310/http://www.orford.tased.edu.au/paradise%20coach.JPG"]][[image:http://web.archive.org/web/20120317054310im_/http://www.orford.tased.edu.au/paradise_car_small.jpg width="100" height="64" link="@http://web.archive.org/web/20120317054310/http://www.orford.tased.edu.au/paradise_car.jpg"]][[image:http://web.archive.org/web/20120317054310im_/http://www.orford.tased.edu.au/Paradise%20near%20dam%201.5%20miles%20from%20Orford_small.jpg width="100" height="63" 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 * 10 properties listed by the Australian Heritage Database, only 1 domestic location.
 * 6 properties listed by the Australian Heritage Places Inventory for "Orford"
 * Only 3 properties listed by the **Tasmanian Heritage Register** for "Orford"
 * The **Glamorgan Shire Bay Council** lists seven Heritage sites at Orford, adding two Convict stations, Rheban Stables and a Quarry cutting, which are added to this list - //Glamorgan Spring Bay Interim Planning Scheme 2015//

===O1. Old Convict Road, Orford TAS===

> Beginning immediately after crossing the bridge at Orford, the Old Convict Road trail follows the northern side of the Prosser River for 1km. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.28px;">Easy to find on the northern side of the bridge across the Prosser River, the Old Convict Road is precisely as its name suggests - a road built by convicts. Although it was created by an enormous amount of hard manual labour it is now a pleasant walk through the bushland beside the river.
 * Indicative Place on the National Heritage Register
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #88; CT197557/1, 34549/1, 143002/1 and [|road] reserves dissecting these titles
 * This flat and easily accessible trail highlighs rugged examples of Convict manual labour and structural ingenuity.
 * Build between 1841 and 1855, this stretch of terraced road was used to service the Probation Station in Buckland now in ruins at the end of the track.
 * No one knows exactly when the road was built although it must have been constructed some time between 1841 when a Probation Station for new convicts was established at Buckland and 1855 when the last Probation Station in the area was closed down.
 * The walk lasts about 40 minutes. The total length of the incomplete road is 7 km but it is not all part of the walk.

Taking no longer than 1 hour to complete, this walk is a worthy addition to other local day walks such as the Three Thumbs Track (see below). This main section of the convict built road provides a delightful and authentic historical walk from Orford along the northern riverbank of the Prosser River and takes you to the ruins of the Paradise Probation Station.
 * The Road is constructed out of the prolific bluestone rubble and boulders. The road was probably also used to service the penal settlement of Maria Island.
 * The first 100 metres from the Orford Bridge is a road for vehicle traffic and the main Old Convict Road continues on from here. This section of the road is in a remarkably well preserved state. Very easy to find.
 * Terraced into the side of the river valley the convicts must have had a torrid time hand laying the bluestone rock embankments supporting the road. As in other parts of this region, there is evidence of middens left by the original Tasmanians long before the convicts arrived. These are largely intact.
 * The Road has been terraced (cut and filled) into the steep banks of the river which makes this section of the road clearly identifiable. However there has been a dam built on the Prosser River and a water supply taken from this via the Road to the town of Orford and beyond. This ten inch cast iron supply pipeline runs along the top side of parts of the Road. The pipeline is exposed at small sections but it has been mostly concealed by substantial placement of stone over it. There are some remains of an older smaller pipeline of which little information is known.
 * The convict road provides access to the Paradise Probation Station and much of the road is supported by 1-3m high dolerite stone walls on the southern (river) side. The site has been considerably disturbed by the laying of a water pipeline associated with a dam upstream. The pipe has been laid along the top side of the convict built road from Orford and passes through the southern limit of the main site area accompanied by a modern access road which diverges and cuts through the site.

It is well worth a pleasant stroll along the road up to the probation station ruins (probably where the convicts who built the road were housed). The whole walk took me approx 1.5 hours round trip which included extended time exploring and photographing the ruins. It’s a pretty easy walk in lovely bush surrounds with the river winding in and out along side you as you walk in the footsteps of the convicts.
 * [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wq8ya5HJ1ys/UgC9wbPBXxI/AAAAAAAADis/4UspWt35yCc/s400/DSC06241.JPG width="400" height="266" caption="Old Convict Road, Orford"]] || [[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-btiw0L5NHZw/UgC_L34tuaI/AAAAAAAADjQ/T2aRaVA89TE/s400/DSC06288.JPG width="400" height="266" caption="Old Convict Road, Orford"]] ||
 * Read More: On the Convict Trail: Old Convict Road
 * TasTrails: @http://tastrails.com/old-convict-road/
 * See also the Prosser Convict Station Alma Road Orford - below...

===O2. <span style="background-image: url(">Former Post Office (Sanda House), 33 Walpole Street, Orford TAS===


 * Registered in 1976
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ls1axguN0-CP9Q5hnBKL90YyQy05zcYmIBMIdPdJ74mYKMoezNV705FSv34PSZ0PyVFavJCgq7aVpTwqI6IlCMFWE3mtKQXhQsNtUd40_6kpiGsSkphKYdrl-0GN59Blg6-YJqN8hZPgXIpE0gA4lLb_NxF1vpJsXdDVRYPFYeMIbl4PkFF8wQp7-LCmkom5RoutG1Kyf392fzcYvFCL9kBSZjQt6GSC8329nM7Vo6bUCDnHKZZyaINzhhySDv5AH23Tb7Cff6BFST8awax5n706NoUsNnK2Led_FJk8DSxMsLDPH5q_bgn0A4bWcm0mJlAxuqcKzZDvkhs-eBlpR_T1XTdFPo-kcEC9my3JYT61_leHJzr2cmdYpDdHq6GmxHC9U1X8Pb4Oxl5W73phDo9MUi31iov2yWYX5Uy3x8vwY0Tu5NB6y8XXOT5pT2CJRfEm7owG6goNwIYPeTRaRR-T4SFOwlJF9gGmZT0z5OXCRoaMX4nH99qx2oWC83XahpyV8LbA7JS_adbOEWx9OaN4ea20IKdtqcLQU5LaZN4DxbNqgMvXmbi_zIIZh10hSPU6T_uwYDLTgxhSWfS2VYSPZhVWNf-d4J1V_W6uO1JWD2QNZw=w750-h498-no width="407" height="272" align="right" caption="33 Walpole Street, Orford TAS 7190" link="@http://www.domain.com.au/property-profile/33-walpole-street-orford-tas-7190"]]Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #36; CT132499/1
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1534
 * Sold March 2016 for $607,500 - photgraphs

Sanda House, the oldest building in Orford, is heritage listed with the original sandstone kitchen, (now the Rose Room) built in 1838. The main house, built in 1840 from local field and sandstone, is known locally as the **old Post Office** (1876-1940).
 * Over its 176+ years, the fine sandstone house has settled comfortably in the centre of the garden, orchard and vegetable patch.

From 1872 until 1940 the Turvey family ran the post office at Sanda.
 * Miss Grace Turvey had to go down to the bridge to get the mail, no matter what the weather was like. If she expected a lot of mail, she would take the wheelbarrow.
 * Usually some of the men, coming for their mail pushed it back for her.
 * Daily mail services to Orford started in 1925.

The Former Post Office at Orford is of historic cultural heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the growth and development of postal communications in Tasmania during the Victorian period. > P: +61 3 6257 1527 (from outside Australia) P: 03 6257 1527 (from within Australia) > M: 0428 875 665 mailto: info@orfordsandahouse.com.au > Website: [|www.orfordsandahouse.com.au] > 33 Walpole Street, Orford has strong meaning for the community because it demonstrates aspects of Victorian society and contributes to the areas built heritage.
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; font-family: Roboto,Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Orford's Sanda House, **Bed & Breakfast Accommodation
 * 33 Walpole Street, Orford is of historical heritage significance because it demonstrates the principal characteristics of a Victorian Georgian, stone dwelling with dormers.
 * These characteristics are found in the external form, construction methods and the detailing, both externally and internally.
 * Description:**

This stone residence has two elements. The main building has a steeply pitched hipped roof clad in corrugated iron (earlier photos reveal the roof was once shingled) and simple chimneys. The facade has two timber dormers plus a verandah with skylights, simple timber posts and brackets under a broken back roof. Multi-paned double hung windows also adorn either side of a timber panelled front door with transom light. At one end of this verandah a wooden door leads into the second smaller stone building. The rear of the main building is similar to that of the front.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian

O3. <span style="background-image: url(">Holkham 59 Tasman Highway, Orford TAS
> Heritage #35; CT8762/1 Original 1860's 'Holkham' - home of Mrs. Henry G. Rudd: Holkham is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1533

**Description:**
A symmetrical, single storey, weatherboard house with a corrugated iron roof with flying gables and simple chimneys. There are two dormer windows to the front and rear elevations, and a window to the attic in each gable. The bargeboards have an openwork edging, and there is a pendant and finial at the gable apex. There is a verandah to two adjacent sides, with a separate skillion roof, valance to match the bargeboards, and a simple railing. There is an extension to the rear with a separate skillion roof. In the grounds of the house is a sandstone rubble shed with quoinwork and a corrugated iron gabled roof. One end of the building and the central doorway are damaged. "Little Holkham" is a stylish one bedroom colonial house situated on the "Holkham" property of ten acres.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
 * Also on the same property: 'Little Holkham' or known as 'Miranda Cottage', accommodation cottage in Orford, TAS
 * These houses are built on 'a paddock' which probably was the site of the heritage Prosser Convict Station.

**Residents of 'Holkham'**

 * 1) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Rudd, George] b: ABT 1801 in " Whissonsett," Norfolk, England d: 26 AUG 1893 in Holkham, Orford, Tasmania, Australia
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Rudd, Martha mrs] b: 1805 in Whissonsett Hall Farm, Norfolk, England d: 09 MAY 1878 in Holkham, Orford, Tasmania, Australia
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Rudd, Henry Goggs] b: 1850 d: 11 APR 1925 in Holkham, Orford, Tasmania, Australia
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Rudd, Martha] b: 14 JAN 1881 in Holkham, Orford, Tasmania, Australia d: 29 JAN 1881 in Holkham, Orford, Tasmania, Australia
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Rudd, Henry Thomas] b: MAR 1883 in Holkham, Orford, Spring Bay,Tasmania, Australia d: 06 DEC 1886 in Spring Bay,Tasmania, Australia
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Rudd, Phyllis] b: 30 JAN 1885 in Holkham, Orford, Spring Bay,Tasmania, Australia d: 30 AUG 1950 in Orford, Tasmania, Australia

===O4. <span style="background-image: url(">Malunnah 5 Prosser River [|Road] Orford TAS ===

<span style="font-family: 'normal Arial',Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;">
 * Sale listing and photographs
 * Registered in 1976
 * Register of the National EstateRecord ID: 11909
 * GSB Heritage #37; CT230584/1
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1535

Malunnah
This property is one of the oldest in Orford. Built in 1863 and rich in history.
 * The house was built by the famous writer & artist Louisa Anne Meredith and her husband Charles.
 * Charles was responsible for the first bridge over the Prosser River in 1866 while he served as colonial treasurer and minister for land and works.
 * Built of local stone and heritage listed this property has many original feature still visible, from original shingles at the entrance to the gable roof.
 * Vaulted ceilings some with Baltic pine, split boards on the hallway walls and nursery ceiling.

The Heritage-Listed house is built of local stone and has a gabled roof currently of corrugated iron with evidence of the original shingles still visible.
 * The front porch is supported by Oyster Bay pine.
 * Some of Louisa's trees and shrubs are still growing in the pretty cottage garden.
 * The property spans an expansive 2.89 acres approx. and overlooks the sparkling Prosser River.

A gable roofed stone house occupying a fine site adjacent to the Prosser River. Although spoilt by unsympathetic additions, the house is locally important due to the small number of historic buildings.


 * Description**:

A stone house with gabled roofs, and a stone terrace on its northern side. The prominent gable ends have decorative barge boards.
 * An asymmetric, single storey, sandstone building with a corrugated iron gabled roof, boxed eaves and simple chimneys.
 * The walls are rubble sandstone with squared quoinwork.
 * The gabled wing to one end of the front elevation has fretworked bargeboards, and pendant and finial.
 * Under the gable is a 2-part window. In the frontage next to the wing is the main entrance, under a gabled porch.
 * The bargeboards to the porch have a different motif to that of the wing. Above and to one side of the porch is a gabled roofed dormer window.
 * To the rest of the front elevation, are a 3-part window and a smaller window. All the windows are double-hung with large panes.
 * There is a flying-gabled wing to one side elevation with pendant and finial, and bargeboards having a different motif again.
 * Under the gable is a faceted bay with French windows. Next to this wing, is a modern gabled wing with a large square bay window.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
 * The walls are a mixture of rubble, and squared fieldstone, with rough sandstone quoins at corners.
 * Windows are two paned double hung, and are not original.

O5. Paradise Probation Station Station Creek Orford
The ruins of the building usually referred to as the Paradise Probation Station does not seem to have been a probation station at all.
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #89: CT34549/1, CT197557/1
 * Read more: On the Convict Trail: Paradise Probation Station
 * It was certainly used for convict accommodation and was originally established some time in about 1844.
 * It mainly housed convicts who were building the road on the north bank of the Prosser River which was to be used for general wheeled traffic.
 * The buildings at Paradise were made from the boards, shingles and nails of the dismantled Buckland Probation Station.
 * The station was abandoned by 1847 and the buildings were destroyed by fire in 1856.

The Paradise Probation Station site has been visited over a long period of time which has resulted in vandalism contributing to the collapse of the remains and the removal of almost all of the bricks bearing the broad arrow mark.
 * However, as an archaeological site, the site appears to be one of the most intact of surviving probation station sites. It is well worth taking the walk along the Old Convict Road to check out the site.

The convict system was a major feature in the history of Tasmania. The Probation system was the last major phase of the convict system in Tasmania, and was restricted to that island from 1841-53. The Paradise Probation Station operated between approx 1845 and 1847. After the Prosser's Plains (Buckland) Probation Station was closed in 1844, they dismantled the buildings and took them to Paradise. Convicts at both stations worked in gangs building the road between the two towns. Several pathways diverge from the main area leading to a structure tentatively identified as a privy and to a jetty, a remnant stone structure which protrudes a short distance into the Prosser River, now only visible at low tide. The [|site] is characterised by numerous dolerite structures located on a relatively level area between one and 20m above the Prosser River. >
 * At least 85 probation stations were established between 1841 and 1853, when transportation to Van Diemen's Land ceased.
 * The Paradise Probation Station was one of the probation stations established in this time. The site is important as a relatively intact archaeological site providing evidence of probation station design. The site appears to be one of the most intact of surviving probation station sites.
 * The Paradise Probation Station site is approximately 2 km along the convict built road which begins just north of the bridge across the Prosser River at Orford. The site is situated on a rise in open woodland encountered immediately after crossing Station Creek.
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 * The site comprises an area approximately 100 x 300 m, the main concentration of structures being located on a relatively level area approximately 100 x 150 m between 15 and 20 m above the Prosser River.
 * The site is characterised by numerous rubble structures, none of which survive to their original height, consisting mainly of stone platforms, brick scatters and associated stone mounds identified as remnant chimney butts and fireplaces.
 * A distinctive gravel feature is evident within the main part of the site possibly indicative of a former yard area.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/n3DeBpDyAT4NsKP9K16TRNdRrnMnANF4X6gskm5AsDic5Hb8TECN9B7BQXnGK3wdgw5Rwp6tG8bn2MvlZBPy7ErZxHGZ-Sqw8m-3l7vLZO4AF0NQPOPGtq4Rnp0CVLjM3Ay9XKshHt_aulX689O5PBCil3cBChttmJqCyyo1l-kCHlo9SUUWJ1p3zsXBalGN0IzZIH34IS9So_4Fu2JE46vRYKcY9KLGcjG8-7Q7IKkGQnLi2yYLwHCKluyGU7QHUUmfcgBUfkR99Au-WHh2jDFoGYdrie50j464-m35o9XuBVgRlVCf3DSGFuFU2dHvMfExYurZ516AQQGhkGpGtw8dCbzGvDuuCKMgwMVzzuqo0_X9xMw1Z4OIcP8GRA3XIzQrPFyXqs-5inCmz7LmPxm_ABiFB6Il4BtPovhuJLr1cZwhYdOU8GmAjFheomltVnvozzjCLph_TMc80vqEOeTjJyUeZ8rRXpC0-Bde00IH-FLJOjSCoxU5zMRGcelHKwyKACIOcRouLEO-QndA-qyenqBHX8ZEe5QhzRN2tl3wb31J6kHUUdtNHcWXqkVSxU822oOaAVcPaVwHY7r7MKeKhlUtSmqwr50iNcIC1SCwMk6WVw=w400-h266-no]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5YWOFImIuKDnXOx-ILDnlidytujXm9SjronvEROv0mQLrSAWAU8o-270M0eDJ9n-KUEuZE_kh-2AuiJHD11QCy9EEzdsZ0tnjJkgfWP4kwSSJPFfIT_imln6-4j0-ckqkVYp5s4xsSVmlIyFcBWNcIIOSFPOJSntYb-co2aBd26T2W3TtcwSEscFSjn9JPQspT634cF8nAswL_6X7LFpWd-RZMLx2-7FHnNKOJMc5lXP9OiuE-kHlbM2OAQx4A5Ubu97MvYnEx2oJQg-nNjEGUGMMJ0UZZ7DBTMyHovZnV4lntGkIR87f00TwxnlrxT7lAP22OD_HTrrNXjHX0bFu-cx1rRdcRd647xIMOWHwjC11NgMVYCMR6rH6koylMbgwAOiabAKMkqpskPAdi3tQJqw4pU--n1DxkiwTGyaNmR4cNs2YMjRWYrCU8pGO09pBGSc8e-J1Jl-rARuKh0_ylqBESQ6XZa9FFS75iIrEdXpOhSmV88lpeD8zAiL6SRz-4zoqQhb42084963-763IbqFwt3lKJDoi_RStWGDec7i3TjXA0WnaIe9gBbDz2m0nbaak4tKnTy86hPMAARPCp2buzgqP0AMw0D7z2PYWsggarjLWA=w400-h266-no]] ||
 * The remains of twelve cells shown on the original plan are identifiable, surviving to a height of 1.5 m in some places, and exhibiting a system of alternate access designed to minimize communication between prisoners.
 * A date for the closure of the station is not definitively known. Certainly it was some time before 1855, based on a private application to lease the land attached to the station.
 * This request was rejected on the grounds that the buildings may have been required for police purposes. In 1856 part of the station was destroyed by fire and in 1870 the land was purchased from the Crown for farming purposes.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ibe6Ueiui6BLjko5cM3s2Or5sQSYYhGRcS2F6KgYTXZoW4hDQ1y1T4jg5kq5febUd3ouMAAR1MN-OoRvdMYLIYKtpqoz8y0iASuF8yWMP4SClnITrVku0HCiQp-ACmWtmRqPCKgb2RTsc4KcuVu64WeAr4P0VtRwsc3LjDtXAFRQ3gYZvIozTBs73YrjpNZHowex0l9pdpcCi6lpKGZuCcIMnCpjO_673pwvKDye9CVK4vKajaAvFQUtwIurgq5UeTTOkIGGpKkyEWBOoL4l46MOGJxSTp3SeNbXLyo43T_bP6BqNhkyf3TTKA8IcfK3s0IPlopOunP_8ztnMn2TIpQZ1np9DTQUwI2DoGef_Laj_IZpuy3O4HS3DcKlPBhBO-IdqfYAWA1qrIZ66eViIRMI7CNw9rUFlsrNl3fqUwSRJ9jZ0q2VQlDeR5OKBceej6Nr-4_Ln7i9lsgrb-uBE-HjWrbIEr7COU0e7w7pI-4toklAKHAB4cQNN-sJArTf4IiDMhbEL1PL-DmYGTRqG8az0n1i60clw8GPIDSlKdP9b0L1Sni9mid7CYvazIkBZtUZN5DikuIyDdFJnXUURzwGGP6K-th1NlFVJXgt1-sgtc6J5A=w400-h266-no]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jAWZ6F8YFPdK4EBiHjRC6ghMYAJqoEsSMjsqrQID99hRxJ6ETch__jRmjnmNEaIDiTlDWWgMENC_-tLBDdJ8psX9KqLAua9Y0BQ7lq5I93pqhIa2JdLGzi6W0bWF8tX-bEfI0ZZPy2T8-jHgmfL85uSatSaBv71vNLGNJ3jc-1RKUsaBIn5MoNl0zT8WTfXYB9ioLX0QqXU20d0c0TNYWw3oAM2S5_byW-QlA_jDFSF9hu-val2mTS4wOCODUs5c3Go7v-ToZXGdcu77ovay7xZo8M840Ky845wBiM5OGsAwthQR-LzwqDdJg6gNCsE8Gf2GXGICYwMXAjU2kK5E0-qnmwLCMmUZczL6gmvBPXf-kg9blDw41xDLLPZWSmvQe7eDe-5gqU3_gIGQ55kAu5ZEK-0kubpebl7IjRPeAr6-XHk4TcKGt7fU075l5KsfctdQyro39Wd1oL3c16EqBS1TTTNZfrd9zVGfhXuvDsbedLWH1JRVVALo56IQiSQrXokwoKq_b91vpdK6AMvPL7JdkrR9C8nMkBZ8Q9fxxwLLOt9zVy-q30VGLUTIXEkUirbPk86tMwxq79AqzG0evTWkVdfhNGw7EsZfwzOuW58YLMxWMA=w400-h266-no]] ||
 * The rubble structures include stone platforms, brick scatters and associated stone mounds identified as remnant chimney butts and fireplaces.
 * Several pathways diverge from the main area and lead to a structure tentatively identified as a privy and to a jetty, now a remnant stone structure protruding into the Prosser River.
 * The remains of 12 cells are identifiable, surviving to a height of 1.5m in some places.
 * The convict built [|road] provides [|access] to the station from Orford and continues past the station towards Buckland.

O6. Quarry and Tramline Cutting, East Shelly Road, Luther Point, Orford, TAS

 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #90; CT120901/1, CT18181/15, CT114239/101, CT25641/7

Prosser’s Bay Quarry
In about the late 1860s the Orford Quarry began. It was known as the Prosser Bay Quarry or Crabtree’s Quarry and it was located near East Shelly Beach. Most people now call it **The Shelly Beach Quarry.** All of the tools they used at the Orford quarry were hand made. They used oyster bay pine props to hold ledges of stone in place.
 * A man named Jim Crabtree was listed as an Orford resident in 1899, so it’s likely that he worked there.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9rh8ZztZt1nxQGp0osRMlYRFtxd1cUlpqgD3_Wnhh1NL8Q4lBp0yHOzDtdCpeZP4qSQwduHdcyxRIfcxMqRIx3fxIVUoRESTBdIPiqQCZLJF9PbA3oKUaUTM-J2W34OHewcNxY5G-foY9RKFCCIKCse2YC7OyV303r_SKxiLqF1-jJY7ZWP96-3SVmqP9dyyWDjnMTNCn0duBgnNl8RvIvm4VYewD-ZRlxHvK9jJwjLw1nNYA4EfWm9gJvhtFDhkLYUo6tzrkBlFfn60Y-P3tQpGsRla7kNzdajxY-BCo-FoRBKV-YJADosrLh2Fuc-FtjIRIxFPTqkTObsjTRwp63to9-EUrCbQlUzFPgf-70Rhs-POtNVe-yI87TokN4PGlTbg0aTKq3EoZmXlndF4SpqlJXw5570sSxsodf9YPgiTg6ntbNsLBQnOLQUjNIHr8XJYEvc3ygQo0pQyuyVjw2QQAwksmmqFit-zFdgtqlPsr6RXNRlPXsBLHlMl1vuyL7qEiogaCTFQoVzcW8y9tUmGeaCEU71oQaiO4OwTJNvRuh8e79LlKQxpcSLNwiIOjz4KHyA7IRJoXaliW1NU34CKhpNFvHHg-hOKKo__HoB2MwwBlQ=w730-h454-no caption="Prosser Bay Quarry" link="@https://orfordprimary.education.tas.edu.au/Pages/Orford-Then-and-Now.aspx"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/SRWhvGelDtv3SWLMDEGJdFwiq8htUlgpJDZ2FjJhOgpN05RSEOG5fKh_3PPE40AMBxnuQKBq7RbbigeqjRfHI8tprdI5BOqLq21qyA6r3Mm-bkcPPMexv1KBNfTjANb3uWlftqP0qp3kyriynv__BO9uvvFaERvCwin6xug1Vc16hza8E4P5pYkcZMVuJANZmKohEoEQD1MV0CximC1FV5VENvqLPvYPR5mRJzfNh09O9G3Oo78CovcsdhuOsTC5pRIOO8jn6CQCc3hVF4PTNktiJxS-gN1MNxA1YZlpSk8BzHU-CgF8uWPsAj6J6Qn1OX7x-GG67KEhrCiIE9_LaKc0MBnCxau-LGEtuLU1epWVGfssnkEUYVI7NgL68oi5q4tpLdzo0vUaTE7_HujqsTXFmmaOkz0ILLzkFn16voru-u4Mk0tQM7jHBJOCnl8Ga7MSTORLg0_dE7ouIHh23mXJR53GOLutB3psTQy5XJoE59vyRc8HCma_KtVGZUHUnS__RCkv4DBz8b_AkHZEgvtjrX-cW4yuRdiopJkCL2Loxl-1iqEtAVgm9rIQegReeRpdN3J_KX-9j0crT48r5fZJm5hPlP3Vb8KlnF1zlgY48iMt4g=w877-h599-no width="362" height="251" caption="Orford Quarry" link="@https://orfordprimary.education.tas.edu.au/Pages/Orford-Then-and-Now.aspx"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QfL5NMfwzTsp4Fm-bD5lKCzhgEUwx-M_3NOHnDG2iHLTwD0eo-4RpJALVy74VSHmxK92pd3nbUeUqtT8mrykLnVYg-Gzls0P7d6W7QArpRmDVspjuZzUEmIAsd_e0pO1wZaJDURUBJypto32KunWbtD-VOaBiL35ogNHoELeAILz7nr_XPBe1x4vxtUDabVNLshJnD9-5bgkeAB7hNkKnh4FYjFJ3V9-d_VYMmUCbhZKgYk4K2LKy6udiebS4P8zjeBC38a3jelCiSOsunTNHanuNf-Ak7wAhCF_UZUFX5IiDL0r9eEud-w5Dgs3XYQcza7QFgia47DkSMEPRIJZbDcz2PqRNnjWDdyAdCPfM23D_wqVhicoSen4sG9ymWoTBZPliQHfMsg3MD8EQQTJMJdDJ3oX7ByjINkadLcpsvvtgsregrZcggvTM1hXWc1Eb9PG9RQeRtC6Ilfq9afhKd_KAGgzunX3XhTmXKNyeQxUyQodaGJOZ3y8ov-Rphpzesq6T1T6HkHvIPOPXfaKzsoGGVxB0ZF2cpfeAYo86QSCLGmXwh3j1Y1IdWg5T9FZpdm3LALSLnKInqUAmlkUSfUiQsJ8veeQJ1A01RT-gqojboj07w=w867-h588-no width="368" height="253" caption="Orford Quarry" link="@https://orfordprimary.education.tas.edu.au/Pages/Orford-Then-and-Now.aspx"]] ||
 * Orford became well known for its great sandstone. Orford’s sandstone was used for some of Melbourne’s main buildings like the post office and the town hall.
 * Ships used to come to the cliff-face jetty to load and the rocks were rolled down the slopes on small tram cars to the boats. Boats could only load at Orford when the wind was blowing in a certain direction.
 * Oyster Bay pines are only found on the east coast. Some of the slabs of stone still lying in the quarry still show the marks of the picks of quarry workers who have long since been forgotten.

Orford Town
From 1869, a small community grew up around a quarry near east Shelly beach. While the quarry was operating there was a school, a post office, two shops and lots of houses all built on and around the cliffs nearby. Lots of people lived there to work at the quarry.
 * When the quarry was open there used to be two shops at the edge of the cliff face. Edward Powell and Joseph McNeil were the storekeepers but these shops closed in the early 1880s when the quarry workers moved on.
 * Norman Bellette had a shop in the 1920s just near the bridge on the north side. Frank Hood wrote in 1922 that the shop had trouble keeping up supplies to their family of seven. The shopkeeper said he had never before had to get in so many nails.

Quarrying from Orford stopped after a faulty load was sent to Melbourne and they refused to accept any more. After that many of the buildings were moved to other places and reused and most of the people moved away. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,verdana,geneva,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> A beautiful 2 km coastal walk along the cliff tops from East Shelly Beach to Spring Beach takes in the quarry, which provided sandstone for buildings in Hobart and Melbourne, including the Melbourne General Post Office and Melbourne Law Courts. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: arial,verdana,geneva,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">
 * Individual people continued to cart stone from there for a long time and for years old Jim Fieldwick used to tell stories about the quarries.
 * The quarried sandstone was used in buildings in Hobart and also in the construction of Melbourne’s Post office & Town Hall.
 * With the closure of the quarry in 1882, many people left the area
 * The quarry operated in the area from 1870 to 1890. The remains of the tram lines used to transport the stone from the quarry to be loaded onto ships are evident at Shelly Beach.
 * A short but steep climb to the ridgetop provides views of Maria Island as you walk towards Spring Beach.

O7. Prosser River Convict Station, (Alma Road) Orford
> "The track to the south of Orford was considered the worst in the entire Tasmanian colony and got the sarcastic name of Paradise Gorge." Construction on the Convict Road started on the northern side of Paradise Gorge in about 1844, when the Paradise Probation Station was also built. The probation station was abandoned three years later and work on the road came to an end, although the Paradise Gorge road was widened on the southern side in 1861. Today you can still walk along the Convict Road to the ruins of the probabtion station, which was destroyed in a bushfire in 1856. At least 85 probation stations were established between 1841 and 1853, when transportation to Van Diemen's Land ceased. > Convicts at both stations worked in gangs, building the road between the two towns.
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #90: CT34549/1
 * Read more: On The Convict Trail: Paradise Probation Station
 * 'Little Holkham' or Miranda Cottage was the first settler property built in this area, [prior to 1860).
 * The Prosser River Convict Station housed the men who built the famous Old Convict Road, which starts immediately to the South-West of the mouth of Prosser River, lower left corner of the Google map.
 * This station was probably moved to Paradise Probation Station as work progressed, and the road was built out to the West.
 * During the 1840s there were two probation stations between [|Buckland] and Orford, between them accommodating 200 [|convicts] while they built the road from each end.
 * After the Prosser's Plains (Buckland) Probation Station was closed in 1844, they dismantled the buildings and took them to Paradise (Gorge).
 * NS3195/1/1501 Photograph by Jack Thwaites - Prosser River Probation Station - Ruins of convict cells.]

O8. Rheban Stables 1019 Rheban [|Road], Rheban via Orford
> "Situated at Rheban, and containing containing 7,600 acres, together with 2,050 acres of Crown lands held by the vendor and 100 acres under cultivation and 60 acres under grass.
 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #92: CT118189/1-3, CT119411/1

The properties are subdivided into 15 runs and paddocks. Improvements consist of a five-roomed brick dwelling, shearing shed, dip, and yards on Earlham, also cottage and 6 huts, brick house stables and sheep yards.

Fences are entirely of wire, and approximately half the subdividing fences are also of wire. All runs are well watered by permanent waterholes and creeks. There is a large quantity of sheoak wood on Ringrove; the carrying capacity is 2,600." [Photograph by Jack Thwaites: Rheban - Boy leading horse - Old stables and buildings in background.]

O9. Rheban Grave Vault, 1019 Rheban Road, Rheban via Orford

 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #92; CT128860/1

===O10. <span style="background-image: url(">Rheban Spit Private Sanctuary Rheban Rd, Rheban via Orford TAS ===

<span style="font-family: 'normal Arial',Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;">
 * Register of the National EstateRecord ID: 11902

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Description:
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.066em;">Rheban Spit Private Sanctuary covers an area of approximately 550 hectares on the east coast of Tasmania, about 10 south-east of Orford. The place includes Rheban Spit and the estuary of the Sandspit River, including a salt-water lagoon (Earlham Lagoon) and marshland dissected by inlets. The western side of the lagoon is adjacent to a gently sloping plain, most of which has been cleared for grazing.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rheban Spit is a Holocene sand barrier which differs in several respects to others in southeastern Australia.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Firstly, it is a beach ridge system which is building up (prograding), whereas most sandy shorelines are receding, and has been since at least 1946.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The four sets of beach ridges making up the Spit have been dated to about 5,500, 4,200, and 3,100 years ago, with the last set formed this century.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This age structure is unusual for a coastal barrier in eastern Australia because most started to prograde about 7,000 years ago and ceased about 2,000 years ago.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The series of ridges on the Spit demonstrates alternation between erosional and depositional phases during formation, and this may be associated with the periodic removal of the isthmus between north and south Maria Island, to the east of the Sanctuary.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rheban Spit, within **Sandspit River Conservation Area**, exhibits characteristics unusual for a coastal barrier in eastern Australia. It has attracted researchers in a number of fields, including geology, geomorphology and botany.
 * Representative Blue Gum (EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS) coastal grassy forest occurs on deep siliceous sands at Rheban Spit. Only two other occurrences of this species in such an environment are known in Tasmania.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sandspit River Conservation Area **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> supports many species of birds, many of which breed there. Breeding taxa include Fairy Tern (STERNA BERGII), Hooded Dotterel (CHARADRIUS RUBRICOLLIS), and Red capped Dotterel (C. RUFICAPILLUS).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Part of the place is habitat for a race of the rare Hairstreak Butterfly (PSEUDALMENUS CHLORINDA MYRSILUS). The diversity of invertebrate species inhabiting the saltmarshes is unusually high for Tasmania.

O11. Stapleton House, 460 Rheban Road Spring Beach, Tas 7190

 * Glamorgan Shire Bay Heritage #39; CT9023/1
 * Tasmanian Heritage Register ID 1537
 * Sale notice and photographs

Stapleton House was the original homestead of Stapleton Beach. Built in 1861 by Thomas and Mary Stapleton this mainly sandstone Victorian Georgian building offers you a part of Tasmania's history ,a comfortable home and a glorious location. Stapleton is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey, sandstone Victorian Georgian domestic building.
 * Set on 10 acres the residence has sweeping views over the coastline towards Maria Island and is close by private Stapleton Beach.
 * The residence has the living, dining, kitchen, bathroom, one bedroom and laundry areas on the ground floor with two further bedrooms and a sunroom/study upstairs.
 * A separate chalet has a bedroom and toilet. Beautiful sandstone walls and Tas oak beams are features of the downstairs area of this Heritage listed property.

**Description:**
This is a single storey, squared-rubble sandstone building with a corrugated iron gabled roof. = =
 * The roof is a modern replacement, with a dormer window extending the length of the front elevation and pressed metal sheet in the gable.
 * The door is off-centre, with one window on one side and two on the other.
 * There is a small faceted bay window to one side elevation, with a separate faceted roof.
 * The verandah extends along two adjacent elevations, with a frieze of square glass panes and a simple railing. There is an extension to the rear.
 * ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian

===O12. Three Thumbs State Reserve and Adjacent Area, Orford, TAS, Australia===

"It’s worth the drive to visit Thumbs Lookout if you’re lucky enough to be anywhere near Orford. The views over Prosser Bay to Great Oyster Bay and the Freycinet Peninsula are magnificent." It isn’t often that the one of the best views from a hike is before you begin but it is the case with the Three Thumbs Track. From the Thumbs picnic area, fantastic views of Maria Island and Spring Bay are on show before walking 50m down to the start of the track.
 * Listed on the Register of the National Estate as an [|Indicative Place]
 * [[image:https://rockmonkeyadventures.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/00000311.jpg?w=768&h=576 width="331" height="249" align="left" caption="Lookout to Orford and Triabunna" link="@https://rockmonkeyadventures.wordpress.com/category/southeast-tasmania/"]] || [[image:http://tastrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/058-700x394.jpg width="437" height="248" caption="Three Thumbs " link="@http://tastrails.com/three-thumbs-track/"]] ||
 * The initial climb off the road is the steepest of the trail, climbing abruptly to meet the ridge line of the Three Thumbs. Following the ridge line, the trail leads you over the undulating hills of the thumbs. The trail itself is well defined and often marked with cairns.
 * The third and final Thumb is accessed via some rock spree scrambling, gently climbing to the summit point of 549 metres. From the top views out towards Orford and the Prosser River can be gained through the treeline. Return to the carpark the same way.

The decision to enter this place in the Register of the National Estate indicates that its values are protected through reservation in the CAR reserve system, by other measures appropriate to the value, or that its values will not be affected by timber harvesting. The place may also contain values which are sensitive and, if located in unreserved tenures, could be locally impacted by forest operations or other land use activities. Under the RFA, these values will continue to be protected at the regional level.

===O13. Wielangta Refugia Site, Orford, TAS===


 * Indicative Place on the Register of the National Estate
 * Read more at Wikipedia
 * Read more - @http://www.tasmania.australiaforeveryone.com.au/wielangta.htm

The Wielangta forest is part of remnant glacial refugia forest and contains blue gum eucalypt forest and pockets of cool temperate rainforest.
 * The forest is a key habitat of rare and threatened species, including the Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle, Swift Parrot, Wielangta Stag Beetle, Spotted-tail Quoll and Eastern Barred Bandicoot.
 * Wielangta walk is a 2 hour return walk that follows the route of an abandoned tramway to the remnants of the old timber milling township of Wielangta.
 * The mill operated from 1911 to 1924, with cut timber carted on trams down the coast to Rheban where it was loaded onto a jetty and shipped off.
 * There is another shorter walk through the rainforest (20 minutes return) at Robertson's bridge.

About halfway between Copping and Orford in the heart of the Wielangta Forest, the Sandspit Forest Reserve picnic area provides a great stopping point for a picnic in one of the two stone shelters once used by Aborigines.

Wielangta has a high diversity of eucalypt species and also is the range limit for several species (e.g. E. barberi, E. delegatensis, E.urnigera) and contains rare, relictual and hybrid populations including E. cordata, E. coccifera and E. delegatensis (Potts & Tilyard 2012).

The Wielangta forest is in south-east [|Tasmania], [|Australia]. It is notable for its role in a 2006 court case that called into question the effectiveness of Australia's cooperative Commonwealth-State forest management regime known as [|Regional Forest Agreements].[|[1]]

Environment
The Wielangta forest is part of remnant glacial refugia forest and contains blue gum eucalypt forest and pockets of cool temperate [|rainforest]. The forest is a key habitat of rare and threatened species, including the [|Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle], [|swift parrot], [|Wielangta stag beetle], [|spotted-tail quoll] and [|eastern barred bandicoot]. A rare orchid (Genoplesium nudum) has also been discovered in the forest. The forest forms part of the [|South-east Tasmania Important Bird Area], identified as such by [|BirdLife International] because of its importance in the conservation of a range of woodland birds.[|[2]]

Logging controversy
The forest is under the control of [|Forestry Tasmania], with logging being allowed. The logging of the forest has been contentious due to the impact on rare and threatened species. Environmentalists called for the Wielangta forest area to be incorporated into a broader reserve offering full protection to environmental and biodiversity values. Some parts of Wielangta were granted formal protection in the recent Supplementary [|Regional Forest Agreement].(Tasmania).[|[3]]

Summary


 * Diverse assemblage of forest communities ranging from E. Pulcella grassy forest to closed canopy rainforest in an area of steep hills, gullies and ridges.
 * Condition and Integrity: Quite good - some E. REGNANS logging in the past. Fire trails.

O14. Wielangta township and Tramline to Coast at Rheban

 * An indicative Heritage location but not protected other than by Federal-State Regional Forestry agreements.

The Wielangta State Forest is home to the **Old Wielangta Township** and the decaying remains of old tram tracks and iron boilers. > **Read a little more:**Tasmania Then and Now > > //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lora,serif; font-size: 14.4px;">Annie Taylor (wreck) //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lora,serif; font-size: 14.4px;"> on Rheban Beach – not long after beaching judging by the flotsam around her. > //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lora,serif; font-size: 14.4px;">Photo reproduced from: // <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lora,serif; font-size: 14.4px;">O’May, H. (1954; reprinted 1985). Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters 1797 – 1950. Tasmanian Government Printer. > **Read More:** N<span style="background-image: url(">ow and Then by Bill Cromer
 * Wielangta was once a thriving sawmilling town.
 * The mill operated from 1911 to 1924, with cut timber carted on trams down the coast to Rheban where it was loaded onto a jetty and shipped off.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VBsBeWohbPp6ewekGbpZpFgjlVwIJUDYaTUvXlTgMu8FUnVz5R-ovSCP-VTuIuEPOL7jJsL_j9EyP88lom8-CGLfyyI_ScylwfuogkSI3hpRLIQBliv9kgBGwnnCDLKA8dLr3QpN8ykNyy4n92I9uVzFSWJWCzJEezTie1PZOPh2YLzS_uXrbzaZymN4nuZmkvqFsE2TQ42HLOI4c5UP_glXn58mR44oXX63iFQCCDluol1Dchbebi8jRSefzwASGbG03RCj3BXTFnKBOxvxtBxPr2cNi83EjQ0na5uRlSaZa7hhnKNbQ7pq04FEw28DN_E6f7VSWN0HsLCWitA4cAs3M02JOz2ZOFrzO7y72YbugYEQd8i20GHb6RA3d8vnIei7S5xEq-1hMSB_i0cL0P7utuQ_NBB2eufzkUcSSM4bO27A3sv5ZUwg8DyxKV_yckuJ5RMHdOPiAbEcxpDFwXx01YNACDMclxAd_l44it9PdkDoXVEIV9-Te3bmOps0Veef5F8bDMAz92x6N5RvbSF5PF6rxyvlAHkHUGNdH1by7dHm4oZ0BtgkjfOINyFH0FgEwJnN-Z_RAqVDUgwk0Neeu9TQYOZ0X1uRNFgaSGt5E0e1DQ=w1068-h600-no width="434" height="252" caption="Rheban Jetty in 1950" link="@http://www.realtasmania.com/topic/1362-tasmania-then-and-now/page-2"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vuXR9u1Q5lKCmGuiO7ZVIE4D_l-06zKMpTAT64Lsc71RIEbdjm02Uu3lL81ouDiuxpcP3r2KI79ZHjm_NgD_NEQl0js1SBXkZ1fiLvONZQIQUSN9jmTd7AdFKCuVdv42JTSCndqvEqBJ1JdFPM2N53WxDpxoY31dGgkiQlpo-hLKUByd5htMJk6h8m-Np0L6ujmVkxwoJ-4JFuo1_xH--z9EQ04XtxwTQDBtPfUroN89bD5FitYlITgb3fdqk-Sw5kRFcWMNWCjmh7A0tXAtPfQVbthMHOOCl7B2JmiZiaSXGeaWXWM1ofcAcTlhW9G3FRoUmoftys7-ClRqM5TuFBT9_wkZczdIXzPWr84aVYpP0Vp64fTihfGYmsShxuNvrlPn2sN3ao2T9lSXwlblTgI_dkGDpQdXqz6oxdUPLqGq3iB76Q7nCxXGoBoU3Wj6TTpurkFJ2GR3p7PRAgYhMZeYE0ou1xW7w5bSOcCETXh8Hf_U_ciY_KGlfoLG06bOVLSdCVvKVr6vu2BrYEgql4G6Lxq8QRumOt8s8aI5E5-WvcVctjZfNQ-OlEbsxA2n8QZfRbi9-kDTNFHlfsTEhqMdlMDJHaHYPjflhloEgA5NebBY3A=w600-h446-no width="335" height="255" caption="'Hauling equipment off Rheban jetty', c 1913" link="@https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vuXR9u1Q5lKCmGuiO7ZVIE4D_l-06zKMpTAT64Lsc71RIEbdjm02Uu3lL81ouDiuxpcP3r2KI79ZHjm_NgD_NEQl0js1SBXkZ1fiLvONZQIQUSN9jmTd7AdFKCuVdv42JTSCndqvEqBJ1JdFPM2N53WxDpxoY31dGgkiQlpo-hLKUByd5htMJk6h8m-Np0L6ujmVkxwoJ-4JFuo1_xH--z9EQ04XtxwTQDBtPfUroN89bD5FitYlITgb3fdqk-Sw5kRFcWMNWCjmh7A0tXAtPfQVbthMHOOCl7B2JmiZiaSXGeaWXWM1ofcAcTlhW9G3FRoUmoftys7-ClRqM5TuFBT9_wkZczdIXzPWr84aVYpP0Vp64fTihfGYmsShxuNvrlPn2sN3ao2T9lSXwlblTgI_dkGDpQdXqz6oxdUPLqGq3iB76Q7nCxXGoBoU3Wj6TTpurkFJ2GR3p7PRAgYhMZeYE0ou1xW7w5bSOcCETXh8Hf_U_ciY_KGlfoLG06bOVLSdCVvKVr6vu2BrYEgql4G6Lxq8QRumOt8s8aI5E5-WvcVctjZfNQ-OlEbsxA2n8QZfRbi9-kDTNFHlfsTEhqMdlMDJHaHYPjflhloEgA5NebBY3A=w600-h446-no"]] ||
 * The Jetty at Rheban Beach has now been demolished.
 * Rheban beach is next to the Rheban farm homestead (a bit south of Orford). It's accessed from their land but they have given the public permission for day use. It's near the Sandspit Conservation area. You can launch your boat from the beach and walk your dog (on a lead). Maria Island is directly opposite.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jJ8SFCGiou-5CvmsIkhZ3Da-sOiJeWmJKzSMyOZzGI9Be_wf47Z8dy_C4-loipDTdrUNk99fpDSs4jDECAjxtVLBY9kTz7BTKjYSc1J8rA6fJEG8oTjH93SFgMVbcc2L6X4qUGpEfFLqg_hspq5NR2rStAVS_eqmK7v13DUYSA4bxJGdt6go_am1pcXmAnD7G8-CqK5G0Z9m_QMO7nUWnJKFVhQ3pJzqiOXalHJ2dhLAGUUEFau0xGksI_QRbzxGqM3i9LVzoOw9FuOG54z9SnoydP8K3g4n3LWi3ZCMrvAWZFLDDudEsXR72tZqZ1mh88pmub7My17qF-WawQBwAR_AJVl3BrN69-Cny8ppr4FognQ1GEY46TDJnVG1AtYqVqYGjr_6PgB865uQnmnXzVPGc1mvRAiPvrKweLRweAq_FW5ScxIxafrKflA7A678pepOJSdfUz3kU3N12MaQc8V6oNqoHExDqv3PhGAQF7O0ulqvFcZA1AkY_otTUsbh5sDntvC4vmPm1S6rvwRcLFt1dRBJbFIeLvUdM8_de8r3Yo6PJHvyq2uAKWafqc6tT_5HATj_Tjzh7hAgzfwi0af3xy5RtplQcC5qeKeYj_qOkhP8RA=w465-h800-no width="253" height="427" caption="Horse drawn log hauling"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Mgc-rftJ5lpNZ9dTFJ3SMmTW-F364UUxAH2uAILdPb_Kr_-neK1OyXEdIkmxd0bBS9ErhHTGheA=w315-h304-no width="444" height="429" caption="[H. Allport] Locomotive on the Wielangta mill tramway, circa 1910. David Lidster collection" link="@https://www.flickr.com/photos/29903115@N06/27324810662"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ICnF4PgbekLFWlLvKf_7KTJen6RHirpv1EB88n79RypyaoruoR-F-kgQq4_rdHuYU5h3yf1eGcEn3IbcRKRVxd0v5G3S-SAnv7at9yWq37y4x8Hxh2tcbkr0pnwYGcnQILWFg9v2UNPTRJ3Ssh1x-94EIjK6jPzEQXa4xlwp0_5Z1AY1UYmqD-uMHiEX1MvYCIJu6a_PKKbYpvn4eUsi1_h5s62ToyE-_8ro-ZnGiQ5ZltxXdeh7HlPlRUaSC2OcffFESx-PUUHh9YkmuydiDTswzc1iHzorh5Ee3WJgzLSiZhScuLl7cR4z94ZHvOmU5797bY-qOHQpwdwfYF2XqIuYbLTYm8QxObWS0iWXuexnNncl0ZM0MIt2mAXVZMuvLpXr8ms1xnMWvdPlUJAT_RXEngi056Yn2lBpVkIKFcxjsYM0TneucH9sVLrZtrLEaqgUWoCItcnQkP1eUP3SxTT_y-QOuOQO4TIM4MDlNjl5_sAMa6K9POqWtYJIVu-X9D3gGvy5vhdfoeHRhtl6qkeVht22ibPMeB9g80E4mJjmOpcB-ZUYGbXJdkfhrm60tmnsjxCVT5uao6RJRQPUjqYQIp6p5yCUa4QJM7Zwp6qE3C7J1Q=w244-h332-no caption="Wielangta Tramway construction"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EyNRQHczhsqaVgWVszN_x-vqNtwpkK6xoZfqxL-6u4WttbdzORqV4X7_2URegkDr03rpvEc0iscf6qR1GsT4ZzU8XRCRXeA0rbMl8zBGpStbxp1YMo9L7CrOJYoafaGcFJMMUADb-65LTMvg6izLaUciyTaVWbK1gSwTVn-TbjZ8w5jpbn1cDV5406wiYdvCRzpfIVmfK2G2b-lkKwrYFwSMfumP_ybaeozXiknzKcHgf_Gbqw6ktQl43dlKCImwLxxCa9VUFZQboPXXk1KwJLHZxQ598L3s2Tk-N2ro_CDAi3kB4hp8DShpsiSFjFVqkQQDbQc9Veg-cTT7skvY7TU70ynCKfhQq_fB_qLI6jiNznoaanpCPZaacEeh5UyL4De8_NMHfAPaUT5Sy7zPuaXCX7QzMli1BsWxO_7YOwevv_VTGFoPNNmp4jyFMbKJL4j8-txE0g7nowRO7fI2s4pU9t4VGvcQT-xQJHwzrtqMnaoSNFWdpsUc2q8MogoQCM7mfV6b2K-rEqJi3JulOkJDfMFEOAiKCjDLVpBL3YtpSwkQNTW7OxC6i1IOJkwBivudxf8_cOf71wajs5gF2ElFW1CUuZd5GrDuYcCQYTE3YV9B7A=w800-h599-no width="438" height="329" caption="Wielangta Tramway locomotive"]] ||
 * The Wielangta forest drive is a gravel forest road through lush, damp rainforest with much more wildlife on the roads than cars, wildlife that includes wallabies, potoroos, quolls and wedge-tailed eagles.
 * The saw mill was closed in 1924 because of a lack of timber and some years later a fire destroyed the township.

In the south-east of Tasmania, there was once a thriving timber town known as Wielangta. In its heyday it had a general store, bakery, blacksmiths’ shops, a school and of course several saw mills.
 * Wielangta was ravaged by bushfires in the 1920s and abandoned in 1928.

The main lifeline for the long-deserted Wielangta township was a tramway out to the coast at Rheban. A section of this makes for a liesurely stroll along the SandSpit River mid-way between Copping and Orford. The Wielangta Forest covers an area of approximately 37, 500 hectares, has a mixture of land tenures and contains a mosaic of production forest and reserve areas. Wielangta has been a working forest from the early days of timber harvesting to the present day and offers a range of experiences for exploring forest environments. ==<span style="background-color: #dddddd; color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Tastrekker - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2016: <span style="background-image: url(">Wielangta Walks ==
 * Wielangta walk is a 2 hour return walk that follows the route of the abandoned tramway to the remnants of the old timber milling township of Wielangta. There is another shorter walk through the rainforest (20 minutes return) at Robertsons bridge.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/k5vz3z5nr1gKP5vK2tpi6TTBvZvBpOxN2yzSiMViddNW6tvpIWFvs992KKNwR6oqy9nRYPAsDSGg4fu-NH9sn7d8AvdsgMQeXS2-0umGVrANRCk-rgTZpjJuRZojFqjmzj0AoDRmYIjSprYnKXwt1isq2wVDiWR0uaaKrZS2i8kOg-wdIfHZm20LJgWPCDjzGTMQxV0KblcgjS0zkjfs1LcpK4MHsKtd9lu4QBS5X1a0cJibYZtI-oDx_oocnWf7Dh2ohV9Gjb7I19IoidjCH_vxkkO1oe-hXMUU4OB_IN7RMxmoYiZsPUNNWCPFbnXRD58eIwR7WMqqiiYiREyA0UAwfWvkXIEmmrY7AQzsdY8dOJ_d_RYpfWpHOeYicOmuUIuaMrWvuQNUbIZ6VaVHw0hHFHM6H-SEC9UgUYjt_cuYd8g6wqVvaaPRN80JjdRJz4jetOdop71sWj4uAddvZ_1koz52Y40B9kd28j7cyWt5WCTQML2Z9kpKi7-yidb966CXdqJmXjVwJyBx8-AeUWjeAwGArIJ4voh6Sc1z6_2GW4s8QC85Jt-InWy3w5g2w-GP4jLzWflxV8gVBH_aiEQpM1yEAN4EACQ2ljD0z-SjaB8blw=w600-h450-no width="457" height="344" caption="Wielangta's Tallest Bluegums in Tassie"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cdLtxCu9RIAfQYu7ZmcN44hDJOeoAKwpFJd03DJstElXPkXzHpnz_vRcclvW55JANOfPaIeUzJbzHH9aMJvzOTwz1L6WPKmAYesoFQDHETeCpabhTGFlIuCpTmXRrYQySSnImJ3FEQUVTjEB4UL3xaPo9OvtpzKA8SF96PSmMAfdX4NT3PlchblGHjoCl2j4kQphcFjR1YRR4hpCGCJZ-RmnC7LSEBS3XiWYYr--5h9AFhUsY7OYyO7oD_mUzliI0VJFI8r_KjtYiyZ5P4aknRwzAHXeLs02FbGKJZi8791qPVNs95m9ZtkX4zNDMKnba-9St4UrjULitU9J7DaIdOlvKUNx9jLYeK2aQfF_KioohVl6Ct-8Wvi3WG5SScYW-XuQV9ZEtKUV9mT7AMGf4hnS1nvFbGalhpTCiPAoXdGZZN3OWR10GJzKzhrvdj5XEMQxGafQGTyTrnWuuanKmJ75qWofgAR61BPpNsr5FrYFF2b0-GRPwO1hQvqB9ObRLCDuDGVrzukiTtem1--kjU-iIAWgEn7EaWshkPI2EJ1PA5hqoOJ6b0sKUpYPR6wpeigp7A0PNGr5_HmaEunUCIVZi3UtLNUiH75c9DoWEfDvPaBO3Q=w800-h600-no width="452" height="340" caption="Wielangta Forest Drive "]] ||
 * [[image:https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2U1s-zwtkKU/WBXDhgWxOwI/AAAAAAAAFy4/qpLC74N2eHog2WcnG_X5HyqM7BuYXUHjgCLcB/s400/20161030_160049%255B1%255D.jpg caption="Wielangta Rain Forest" link="@http://tastrekker.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/wielangta-walks.html"]] || [[image:https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BtE7KWKeEu8/WBXDo63HTBI/AAAAAAAAFy8/fW3rBK0o37Yu2VebPKiUeMBKolxOipVWgCLcB/s400/20161030_160028%255B1%255D.jpg caption="Sassafras trees at Wielangta Rain Forest Walk" link="@http://tastrekker.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/wielangta-walks.html"]] || [[image:https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ParU53b5H9Q/WBXDxXhPykI/AAAAAAAAFzA/TzK6C-V4QNE354vQzIADT8z31QKh3GlvwCLcB/s400/20161030_155533%255B1%255D.jpg caption="Wielangta Rain Forest Walk" link="@http://tastrekker.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/wielangta-walks.html"]] || [[image:https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kXTSEqm7QrQ/WBXD679uKTI/AAAAAAAAFzE/kds4sJC05ecGrRpIWMdcYgoJ74YX_a4cwCLcB/s400/20161030_145416%255B1%255D.jpg caption="Sandspit River" link="@http://tastrekker.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/wielangta-walks.html"]] ||
 * Take the existing road from Orford to Rheban then on through Wielangta Forest to the Kellevie turnoff and on to Dunalley, which offers potentially one of the most stunning tourist routes in Australia.
 * Very rarely could one see such beautiful coastal scenery ... then on through magnificent forest with the tallest blue gums in Australia and a wealth of wildlife and down to the coastal agricultural area at Marion Bay and Blackman Bay.


 * <span style="background-image: url(">[|Wielangta Refugia Site] **Orford**, TAS, <span style="background-image: url(">[|Indicative Place] Register of the National Estate

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Our boys regularly bring home [|“Postcards from the town that disappeared”] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> by Cilia Lendis. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It’s about a boy who rode his pony, Jo, from Nugent to Wielangta to deliver the mail to the families living in the forestry town. Our boys were captivated by the story, the history area, the forest, the characters and the train that carted the sawn timber to the port at Rheben on the coast. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">media type="custom" key="28876672"

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 17492.5px; width: 1px;">The reserve protects a representative range of the marine habitats found on Tasmania’s east coast. These include seagrass, sand and reefs with a range of rock types (dolerite, siltstone, sandstone, and limestone) and wave exposures (from sheltered to fully exposed). In Fossil Bay on the exposed north coast, deep gutters, overhangs and caves (extending up to 40 m into the limestone cliffs) form spectacular seascapes both above and below the water. On the more sheltered western shore, which is protected from fishing, large southern rock lobsters abound and the numbers of reef fish, such as bastard trumpeter, banded morwong and boarfish, have greatly increased since the reserve was declared in 1991. Seahorses and weedy seadragons are commonly sighted, while fascinating species such as warty prowfish and red velvetfish hide amongst sponges and algae.