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Oatlands
Oatlands is a pretty colonial town about kilometres miles north of Hobart with the largest collection of sandstone buildings in Australia and many of its old cottages are now cafes antique stores or restaurants Oatlands is another town selected and ...
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Evandale
Evandale is a Georgian village south of Launceston best known for its th-century buildings and relatively untouched streetscape The town with a population of nearly is only five kilometres three miles south of Launceston Airport Every year avid cyclists suit ...
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The Heritage Highway
A highway with a thousand stories acirc from convicts to farmers bushrangers villains writers and painters Cross a landscape first cleared by Aborigines for hunting and quickly settled by European farmers Explore picture-perfect Georgian villages that began life as overnight ...
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Longford
Longford is kilometres miles south of Launceston and centre for the local farming district Prior to European settlement the area was used by the Panninher band of the northern midlands The town went through a number of names before settling ...
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Ross
Ross sits on the banks of the Macquarie River and is one of Australia acirc s most appealing convict-built stone villages Cobble-style paths and old tall elm trees line the main road and give this picture-perfect town an air of ...
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Heritage Highway
Take your time travelling along Tasmania acirc s historic Heritage Highway - from Launceston to Hobart Slow down - perhaps not to the pace of the horse-drawn coaches that once rattled through the wide grazing lands Today the highway follows ...
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Campbell Town
Campbell Town was one of the early coaching stops between Launceston and Hobart and sits on the banks of the Elizabeth River It was named by Governor Lachlan Macquarie after his wife acirc s family during a visit in It ...
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Kempton
Kempton was settled in the s and originally called Green Ponds The streetscape with its inn church and shops is very much as it was in the th century and Dysart House now privately owned at the southern end of ...
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Perth
Perth with a population of around was settled in and is about kilometres miles south of Launceston It has a number of historic buildings notably churches Baptist and Methodist and inns Explore the historic town walk the post office has ...
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