Royal George is a rural locality in the local government areas (LGA) of

Northern Midlands Northern Midlands Council is a local government body in Tasmania, extending south of Launceston into the northern region of the Tasmanian central midlands. Northern Midlands is classified as a rural local government area and has a populatio ...

(46%), Break O'Day (27%) and Glamorgan-Spring Bay (27%) in the Central,

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and South-east LGA regions of

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. The locality is about south-east of the town of Longford. The 2016 census recorded a population of 45 for the state suburb of Royal George. It is a village in northeast Tasmania on the St Pauls River. At the , Royal George had a population of 127. It was a mining village, with the mine and locality named after one of the

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vessels named from the 19th century. HMS ''Royal George'' was under the command of Captain Robert Hepburn during the

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Captain Hepburn settled nearby at Roy's Hill in 1828.

History

Royal George was gazetted as a locality in 1954. The first Royal George Post Office opened on 5 May 1914 and closed in 1920. The second office opened in 1955 and closed in 1971. Royal George is served by a school bus that takes students to Avoca Primary School and Campbell Town District High School. , there is a population of around 28 people living in Royal George.

Geography

Many of the boundaries are survey lines. St Pauls River, a tributary of the

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, rises in the north and flows through to the west.

Road infrastructure

Route C301 (Royal George Road / Old Coach Road) runs through from west to south-east.

References

Towns in Tasmania Localities of Northern Midlands Council Localities of Break O'Day Council Localities of Glamorgan–Spring Bay Council {{tasmania-geo-stub