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- pictured right:
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Tinamba Tavern
Autumn
crossroads
Your nearest
tourism information:
- MAFFRA
VISITOR
INFORMATION CENTRE
- 96
Johnson Street
- Maffra
- Victoria 3860
- Phone: (03) 5141
1811
- Fax: (03) 5141 1877
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The first European settlement, Mewburn Park pastoral
run, occupied the area between the Macalister and Thomson rivers from the 1840s.
From this the Tinamba district was surveyed for selection in 1862; initially
selectors were sustained by selling produce to gold miners passing through from
Maffra to the diggings at Donnelly's Creek and the Jordan. The erection of
a hotel in 1874 and the arrival of the railway in 1883, with its station and
sale yards, saw a small settlement develop. By the 1930s there was a
store, school, community hall and church. Several large estates were
subdivided early in the 20th century; Tinamba was one of the first districts
made available to Soldier Settlers after WWI.
Today the district is sustained by a productive dairying
industry; the Tinamba Tavern is a well known feature with interesting
Dutch connections.
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things to do
- play a round of golf at the
Newry Golf Course
- motocross raceway
- walk and picnic in Bellbird
Corner nature reserve (on the Macalister River)
- bird watching at the wetlands
- duck hunting, fishing (in season)
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food and drink
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places to stay
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places to visit
in
or near
town |
- spend a lazy day at the tavern chatting to
locals
- cycle the Gippsland Plains Rail Trail
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| 50km radius |
- the villages of Boisdale,
Newry, Cowwarr
- the townships of Briagolong, Stratford,
Maffra,
Heyfield, Rosedale, Sale,
Longford, Yarram
- the rich farmlands in the
Central Gippsland plains
-
Gippsland Vehicle
Collection, Maffra
- the Avon-Mt Hedrick Scenic
Reserve
- the Quarries Reserve, Briagolong
- the Blue Pool, Briagolong
- Wa-De-Lock winery and cellar door, Stratford
- Heyfield Wetlands and
Visitors Centre
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Winnindoo Robotic Dairy & Dairy Interpretive
Centre
- Glenmaggie Weir and wall
- Cowwarr
Weir recreation area
- Lees Creek goldfield
- Lake Wellington
- 90-mile Beach
- Holey Plains National Park, Rosedale
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| 100km radius |
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Gippsland's high country - the hinterland of the Alpine National Park
- the townships of Yarram, Bairnsdale, Traralgon,
Loch Sport, Lakes Entrance
- Powerworks, Latrobe Valley
- Dargo and Crooked River goldfields
- Licola
- Walhalla
- Tarra-Bulga National Park
- Mitchell River National Park
- Port Albert historic area
- the Gippsland Lakes
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Leave the Highway at Traralgon or Stratford and
take the well-marked Route C105
For further details, wander over the map or select
your location belowGlengarry | Toongabbie |
Cowwarr |
Heyfield |
Tinamba |
Maffra | Stratford further north
Licola | Glenmaggie |
Newry| Briagolong |
Dargo |
A
Maffra Community enterprise : updated
May 2007
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