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Hadspen
Hadspen is a town on the South Esk River in the north of Tasmania, Australia, south west of Launceston. Hadspen has few commercial establishments and is primarily a residential suburb of nearby Launceston. Most of the town's buildings are residential, and relatively recent. The town's population of just over 2000 has grown rapidly from only a few hundred in the 1960s, and there are development plans that call for its doubling. Settlement began in the early 19th century as a cluster of houses on the Launceston side of the river, near a frequently-flooded ford. Over time various bridges were built, largely on the same site, across the river. Though it had been settled for some time Hadspen was only officially declared in 1866. Hadspen was originally on the main road from Launceston to Devonport but the town's centre was bypassed in the late 20th century. There have been schools, both secular and religious, in its history, though there remain none. The town has heritage-liste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadspen House And Garden
Hadspen House of Hadspen, Somerset, England is built of Cary stone, mined from Hadspen Quarry. The stone is a soft limestone known for its deep burnt-orange colour. It is an inferior oolite of the Garantiana Beds and dates to the Middle Jurassic. The house has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building. House Hadspen House is said to have begun as a farmhouse, purchased by the London lawyer William Player in 1687 on the Hadspen estate, Player "built the forefront of a gentleman's house in Byfleet Close, a barn, two stables and ox house." Player's expansion continued for 10–12 years. It included building walls around a court, adding a service wing, "a stall for 24 cattle, a farm baliff's house, a brewhouse" and modern plumbing, with a lead pipe water supply. Player also began the garden, planting extensively on both sides of the house and trees, behind, south and north of the house, that included beeches, elms, poplars, ashes and cherries. Hadspen is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Highway, Tasmania
The Bass Highway is a highway in Tasmania, Australia. It connects the three cities across the north of the state – Burnie, Devonport, Tasmania, Devonport and Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston. The road was named due to its proximity to the Bass Strait. It is a part of the National Highway (Australia), National Highway, designated as National Highway 1, together with the Midland Highway (Tasmania), Midland and Brooker Highway, Brooker highways in Tasmania. The highway passes through or past the following localities: *Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston * Prospect, Tasmania, Prospect and other Launceston suburbs * Hadspen, Tasmania, Hadspen * Carrick, Tasmania, Carrick * Hagley, Tasmania, Hagley * Westbury, Tasmania, Westbury * Exton, Tasmania, Exton *Deloraine, Tasmania, Deloraine * Elizabeth Town, Tasmania, Elizabeth Town * Sassafras, Tasmania, Sassafras * Latrobe, Tasmania, Latrobe *Devonport, Tasmania, Devonport * Forth, Tasmania, Forth * Ulverstone, Tasmania, Ulverstone * Peng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travellers Rest, Tasmania
Travellers Rest is a rural/residential locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Meander Valley (98%) and Northern Midlands (2%) in the Launceston and Central LGA regions of Tasmania. The locality is about east of the town of Westbury. The 2016 census recorded a population of 305 for the state suburb of Travellers Rest. It is a settled semi-rural area at the edge of Greater Launceston. History Travellers Rest is a confirmed locality. In the 19th century the area was largely uninhabited. At the junction where the road from Launceston branches — the branches lead now and led then to Longford and Hadspen — a hotel was built in 1833 by G & T Burnett. The hotel was initially called the Travellers Rest Hotel. It burned down in March 1930 due to a hotel employee's accident; he was filling a motorcycle with petrol while holding a lit storm lantern. By 1941 only the front wall remained, a state that led to a call for its demolition. The remaining ruins were finally remov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entally House
Entally House is a heritage-listed site in Hadspen, Tasmania. It was the family home of Thomas Reibey who was the Premier of Tasmania from 1876 to 1877. The Entally Estate was established in 1819 by Thomas Haydock Reibey (senior). Reiby worked in the East India company, and named the house after the suburb of Entally in Calcutta, India.Tasmanian Government - Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment brochure - Entally House, 2012 In 1978, the house and its outbuildings were registered on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007. Phasing out began in 2003, when the Australian National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Heri .... References External links Entally Estate- official siteEntally House, discover Tasmania official web site 1819 establishments in Australia Historic house museums in Tasmania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Reibey
Thomas Reibey (24 September 1821 – 10 February 1912) was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 20 July 1876 until 9 August 1877. Reiby was born in Hadspen, Van Diemen's Land, (now Tasmania) the son of Thomas Haydock Reibey and Richarda Allen, and a grandson of Mary Reibey. Reibey was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. His father died before he graduated and he returned to Tasmania. In 1843 Reiby was admitted to Holy Orders by Bishop Francis Nixon. He was for some years rector of Holy Trinity church, Launceston, and afterwards rector of Carrick, where he built and partly endowed a church. About 1858 he became archdeacon of Launceston. Missions to the islands of Bass Strait Archdeacon Reibey was one of a number of the Anglican clergy in Tasmania who voyaged to the Bass Strait islands in the middle of the 19th century to minister to the spiritual needs of the islanders of Aboriginal descent. The first such voyage seems to have been that made by Bishop Franci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meander Valley Council
Meander Valley Council is a Local government in Australia, local government body in northern Tasmania. It covers the western outskirts of Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston, and further westward along the Meander River, Tasmania, Meander River. Meander Valley Council is classified as a rural local government area and has a population of 19,713. Major towns and localities of the region include Elizabeth Town, Tasmania, Elizabeth Town, Mole Creek, Tasmania, Mole Creek, Westbury, Tasmania, Westbury and the principal town of Deloraine, Tasmania, Deloraine. History and attributes On 2 April 1993, the municipalities of Deloraine and Westbury were amalgamated to form the Meander Valley Council. Meander Valley is classified as rural, agricultural and very large under the Australian Classification of Local Governments. Localities The municipality includes the localities of Bracknell, Tasmania, Bracknell, Carrick, Tasmania, Carrick, Chudleigh, Tasmania, Chudleigh, Hagley, Tasmania, Hagle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Esk River
The South Esk River, the longest river in Tasmania, is a major perennial river located in the northern region of Tasmania, Australia. Location and features The South Esk springs from the eastern foothills of the Ben Lomond plateau near Mathinna and the river's course describes an arc around the entire southern promontory of the mountain – running through Fingal, Avoca and Evandale before winding its way northwest through Perth, Longford and Hadspen. The river merges with the tributary Meander River, then flows through the narrows of the Cataract Gorge to finally meet the North Esk River at Launceston. From this confluence arises kanamaluka/Tamar River, which runs to the Bass Strait. The natural river flow is interrupted by the Trevallyn Dam, near Launceston, constructed as part of the Trevallyn Power Station hydroelectric power scheme. The river is subject to flooding which overflows at Lake Trevallyn to create the spectacle of high rapids coursing through the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meander River (Tasmania)
The Meander River is a major perennial river located in the central northern region of Tasmania, Australia. Until the founding of Westbury in the early 1820s, the river was known as The Western River. Location and features The Meander River rises in the Great Western Tiers and flows past its namesake town, Meander, through the major regional town of Deloraine, then eastward, where it flows into the South Esk River near Hadspen. From source to mouth, the river is joined by fourteen tributaries including the Liffey River and descends over its course. The damming of the river in 2007 created the artificial reservoir Lake Huntsman. The Meander Hydro Dam provides both electricity and water to the region and is the second dam on the Meander River. Recreation The Meander is a popular trout fishing stream holding brown trout. The World Fly Fishing Championships organized by the International Confederation of Sport Fishing has selected the Meander as one of its venues for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Launceston, Tasmania
Launceston () is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia, at the confluence of the North Esk River, North Esk and South Esk River, South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River, Tasmania, Tamar River (kanamaluka). As of 2021, the Launceston urban area has a population of 90,953. Material was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License/ref> Launceston is the second most populous city in Tasmania after the state capital, Hobart. As of 2020, Launceston is the 18th largest city in Australia. Launceston is the fifth-largest inland city and the ninth-largest non-capital city in Australia. Launceston is regarded as the most livable regional city, and was one of the most popular regional cities to move to in Australia from 2020 to 2021. Launceston was named Australian Town of the Year in 2022. Settled by Europeans in March 1806, Launceston is one of Australia's oldest cities and it has many historic buildings. Like ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Tasmania
Metro Tasmania, commonly called Metro, a Tasmanian Government government-owned corporation, business enterprise, is the largest bus operator in the state of Tasmania, Australia, with operations in three of the four largest urban centres of Hobart, , and . Urban services in Devonport are provided by a private operator, Kinetic Group, Kinetic. Services are provided by Metro under a range of urban and non-urban contracts with the Transport Commission, a division within the Department of State Growth. History The history of Metro Tasmania dates back to 1893, when the ''Trams in Hobart, Hobart Electric Tramway Company'' (HETCo) was founded by a London consortium. The HETCo was one of the earliest such operators in the world, and was the first electric tramway in the Southern Hemisphere. The company also operated two Dennis Specialist Vehicles, Dennis motorbuses prior to being taken over in 1913 by the Hobart City Council, who renamed it to ''Hobart Municipal Tramways'' (HMT). In 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagley, Tasmania
Hagley is a rural locality and town in the local government area of Meander Valley Council, Meander Valley in the Launceston LGA Region, Launceston region of Tasmania. The locality is about north-east of the town of Westbury, Tasmania, Westbury. The 2016 Australian census, 2016 census has a population of 335 for the state suburb of Hagley. The area was used by the Port Dalrymple—an early name for George Town, Tasmania, George Town in Northern Tasmania—Aboriginal Tasmanians until they were driven from their lands by European settlement. Land grants from the 1820s, to William Thomas Lyttleton, William Bryan and Sir Richard Dry, led to the first buildings, and later gazetting of the town in April 1866. Lyttleton was associated with Hagley Hall in England; his naming of his estate led to the town's name, and he is believed to have bequeathed the town's land. Hagley is an agricultural centre sited on largely alluvial soil near the Meander River, Tasmania, Meander River. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Cup
The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and older, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club that forms part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest two-mile handicap in the world and one of the richest turf races. The event starts at 3:00 pm on the first Tuesday of November and is known locally as "the race that stops the nation". The Melbourne Cup has cemented itself as a part of Melbourne and Australian culture, having been run every year since 1861 (except for an intermission during World War I and World War II). The day of the race has been a public holiday for much of Victoria since 1876. It was originally run over but was shortened to in 1972 when Australia adopted the metric system. This reduced the distance by , and Rain Lover's 1968 race record of 3:19.1 was accordingly adjusted to 3:17.9. The present record holder is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
