Leinster Downs Station is a pastoral lease that once operated as a
cattle station
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and now 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
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
.
Situated approximately north of
Leinster
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and south of
Wiluna in the
Goldfields–Esperance region. It shares a boundary with the
Pinnacles Station to the south,
and with Wildara station to the south west.
The
traditional owners
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of the area are the
Wanmala,
Tjupan and
Pini peoples.
Leinster Downs was established by
Henry Saunders, a mining entrepreneur and member of parliament who acquired the Leinster gold mine in 1900. Established prior to 1909, the property was raising and selling horses in the goldfields area at that time. Cattle were being run at Leinster Downs in 1920 along with many nearby properties including Dandarraga,
Sturt Meadows and Ida Valley.
[
Leinster Downs was acquired by the Nairn brothers, who also owned Yarrabubba Station in about 1925. The property was running sheep at the time and occupied an area of approximately . The original brick homestead, which was erected by Saunders, burned down in 1936.
The Leinster Downs Pastoral Company owned the property until 1949, when Noel White and family acquired the property.]
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
* S ...
*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 ...
References
{{Stations of the Goldfields-Esperance Western Australia
Homesteads in Western Australia
Pastoral leases in Western Australia
Goldfields-Esperance
Stations (Australian agriculture)