Boogardie Station is a
pastoral lease
A pastoral lease, sometimes called a pastoral run, is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where government-owned Crown land is leased out to graziers for the purpose of livestock grazing on rangelands.
Australia
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that operates as a
sheep station
A sheep station is a large property ( station, the equivalent of a ranch) in Australia or New Zealand, whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and/or meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or sout ...
in Western Australia.
It is situated approximately west of
Mount Magnet
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Places
* Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England
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and south west of
Cue on Palmers Well Road.
It has in its area
Boogardie quarry, and is situated away from the location of the ghost town
Boogardie.
Robert Austin traversed the area as part of an
expedition in 1854, reporting it as a fine goldfield and good grazing country. The Jones family established the station in about 1880.
The property occupied an area of in 1931 when the owner Henry Jones died.
In 2011 the property was held by brothers David, Paul, Henry and John Jones who are all descendants of the Jones family that originally settled the property. The station's sheep flock had contracted to about 7,000 head of sheep after several dry seasons.
See also
*
List of ranches and stations
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
West Africa
*Obudu Cattle Ranch
* SO ...
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List of pastoral leases in Western Australia
Pastoral leases in Western Australia are increasingly known as "stations", and more particular – as either sheep stations or cattle stations. They are usually found in country that is designated as rangeland. In 2013 there were a total of 527 p ...
References
{{Stations of the Mid West Western Australia
Mid West (Western Australia)
Pastoral leases in Western Australia
Stations (Australian agriculture)
1880 establishments in Australia