Travellers Rest, Tasmania

Travellers Rest
Tasmania
Population 305 (2016 census)[1]
Postcode(s) 7250
Location 7.6 km (5 mi) from Launceston
LGA(s) Meander Valley Council
State electorate(s) Bass
Federal Division(s) Bass
Suburbs around Travellers Rest:
Blackstone Heights Prospect Vale
Travellers Rest Prospect Vale

Coordinates: 41°29′38″S 147°05′24″E / 41.494°S 147.090°E / -41.494; 147.090

Travellers Rest is a settled semi-rural area at the edge of Greater Launceston[2] and has a population of 305.

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[3] 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.[4] By 1941 only the front wall remained, a state that led to a call for its demolition.[5] The remaining ruins were finally removed in 1990 when the site was covered by construction of the Bass Highway.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Travellers Rest (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2017-05-12. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ↑ "Greater Launceston Draft plan" (PDF). Launceston City Council. p. 20. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Dyer, p.7
  4. ↑ "FIRE NEAR LAUNCESTON, Travellers' Rest Hotel, Occupants' narrow escape". The Mercury. Hobart. 28 May 1930. p. 7.
  5. ↑ "Travellers' Rest walls cited". The Examiner. Launceston. 20 December 1941. p. 6.
  6. ↑ Dyer, p.10

Bibliography

  • Dyer, Alan F (1990). John Dyer, 1809–1882, and his descendants: free immigrant to Van Diemen's Land, Longford Farmer, Hadspen innkeeper, Kentish pioneer. Sheffield, Tasmania: Pioneer. ISBN 0646013939.


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