Campbell Town
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xenithCampbell Town is on the Midlands Hwy.
If you clicked on the link you'd find out that
"Campbell Town is a major pastoral and tourist centre in the Northern Midlands, originally established in 1821 by Governor Macquarie as one of the four garrison town and probation stations between Hobart and Launceston.
"Campbell Town, and the Elizabeth River, which runs through it (previously known as Relief Creek), was named by Macquarie after his wife, Elizabeth Campbell."
If you're heading south, it's the last town on the actual highway until you're almost in Hobart. And if you're heading north, it's the first town after a long drive with no towns along the highway. So it's a popular stopping place. It's about 132 km from Hobart and 41 miles from Launceston.
See.
There are new. They're not in my March 2008 photos. (Which most of these photos are, but some are November 2012.)
The Red Bridge, built 1838 and quite interesting for a bridge, so I might put some more photos up another time.
The Fox Hunters Return was a coaching inn. There's probably more details on the website :) Now it's a B&B, and there's a bookshop in the basement.
View of the back.
An interesting feature of the town is the Convict Brick Trail
That's the hotel. The name on the front says it's the Campbell Town Motel & Bistro. (There's a handful of motel rooms out the back, where we stayed in November.)
St Michaels Catholic Church
St Andrews
If you clicked on the link you'd find out that
"Campbell Town is a major pastoral and tourist centre in the Northern Midlands, originally established in 1821 by Governor Macquarie as one of the four garrison town and probation stations between Hobart and Launceston.
"Campbell Town, and the Elizabeth River, which runs through it (previously known as Relief Creek), was named by Macquarie after his wife, Elizabeth Campbell."
If you're heading south, it's the last town on the actual highway until you're almost in Hobart. And if you're heading north, it's the first town after a long drive with no towns along the highway. So it's a popular stopping place. It's about 132 km from Hobart and 41 miles from Launceston.
See.
There are new. They're not in my March 2008 photos. (Which most of these photos are, but some are November 2012.)
The Red Bridge, built 1838 and quite interesting for a bridge, so I might put some more photos up another time.
The Fox Hunters Return was a coaching inn. There's probably more details on the website :) Now it's a B&B, and there's a bookshop in the basement.
View of the back.
An interesting feature of the town is the Convict Brick Trail
That's the hotel. The name on the front says it's the Campbell Town Motel & Bistro. (There's a handful of motel rooms out the back, where we stayed in November.)
St Michaels Catholic Church
St Andrews
