Campbell Town

Campbell Town is on the midlands highway and all traffic going south passes through the town.  

Roadworks are being done before the town for many kms at 60 km  sometimes 40km and it's a pain in the neck, yes, I know roads have to be redone and remade but still.

Campbell Town is a rual town and about 68km from home, a lovely drive normally through farmland.

A of photo a Church within the town, (photo taken in late autumn) and one of the town clock, my very first photo of it.

The town has much to offer for the traveller, coffee shops, service stations, clean public loos, supermarket, antique shop and of course a Hotel.

The Foxhunters Return was built Circa 1833 and was designed by an Irishman and was a coaching Inn back in the day and now a accommodation place.

We visited Campbell Town a few days ago so there are more photos in the future of this place.

Campbell Town, Tasmania

A short time in Campbell Town taking photos of the river and bridge as we journey our way down to Huonville, down south of the Island.  The Foxhunters Return in photo below is a place to stay at Campbell Town and has much history.  It's believed that convicts stayed underneath the Inn back in the day whilst they built the Red Bridge. There are more photos of the Inn and a bit more history [ here ]

Back home.

I do hope you are well whilst I've been gone on holiday.  So lovely to be back home but was great to have a holiday away from home in the south of the Island of Tasmania, Australia.  In a few weeks time we will be off again all being well.

We as in my husband and myself left in the caravan Christmas week returning Saturday January 9, 2021.  Our eldest son his wife and their two little ones came just after Christmas and came home same day as we did.  Youngest son stayed home and had his children come to stay for Christmas in our house.

Extremely lucky on this Island as there is no Covid-19 and hasn't been for awhile now but we all know not to take things for granted, so always distance and so on.

On the way to Huonville down south we went through Campbell Town in the Midlands of Tasmania and of course it was rest time so out came the camera for some photos. These sculptures depict the history of Tasmania.  A post of Campbell Town not long before we left is [ here ]

Campbell Town, Tasmania

Campbell Town is about 70km south of Launceston Tasmania.  It's a nice place to stop and have a rest when driving to Hobart.  Campbell Town offers  coffee shops, grocery store a park, a pub and nick knacks along with a few other things.  Population is about 750 to 800 people and is a friendly rural town with farming being the main business in the area.  My 2nd great grandfather coming as a free settler in 1854 from Kilkenny, Ireland with his wife and a few children to live in a place behind Campbell Town called Isis River which is in fact just a river and a farm or two.  2nd great grandfather grew potatoes in this area and extended his family, but not satisfied with his crops he moved to Tunnack, Tasmania further south east where he remained until his death in 1880.

I've shown photos of the Red Bridge the oldest used bridge on a the National Highway in Australia built by convicts.  (These photos of the bridge I've never shown)

It took convict 15 months between 1836-38 to build and the bricks were made of clay. The bridge goes over the Elizabeth River.

The Red Bridge

Not far from Launceston driving south you come to a small town called, Campbell Town which is known for it's Red Bridge which crosses the Elizabeth River.  The bridge is the oldest surviving arched bridge in Australia as is used as a National Highway. Construction began in 1836 and was finished in 1838.
The bricks (more than one and a half million) were made in the town itself. Convict-built to a European design it has needed very little repair work over the years and now carries well over two million vehicles a year.

Campbell Town also have good eateries so hence many people go to this town for lunch.

My husband and I went to Hobart for a family picnic for the day some 200 kms away, down south.  Hobart is the Capitol of Tasmania, Australia.
We always stop at Campbell Town so I can take a photo of the Red Bridge.