The Heritage Highway: A Cheapskate's Guide To Exploring Tasmania By Car

By Robin Cartledge

The Heritage Highway, the first e-Guide, of a planned series, A Cheapskate's Guide To Exploring Tasmania By Car, concentrates on Tasmania's magnificent, historic Midlands Highway and its surrounds.
Starting at the beautiful, heritage listed town of Evandale, it will head off to Longford and Cressy, then down the Midlands Highway looking at Perth, Campbell Town, Ross and Oatlands, before branching off to visit the historic town of Richmond.
The inclusion of relevant live external links throughout this work, to the best data available, makes this e-guide ideal for pre-planning your trip or use on the run as an on-demand tour guide.
Each of the sections on individual towns offers its history, places of interest, architecture and things to do as well as availability and location of public toilets, tourist information centres, doctors, vets, police and free camping sites, where available.
The guide is an easy read and its 11,000 plus words blossom into many tens-of-thousands more, on demand, through its live external links that offer nearly everything you need to know to make decisions for your journey, that include:
Spirit of Tasmania schedule and online booking site - distances and times by road (including fully functional Google maps) - accommodation (by town) - attractions (by town) - cafes and restaurants (by town) - events (by town) - shopping (by town) - tours (by town) - the Wine Route - Tasmanian cheese trail - Tasmanian beer and mead Trail - Tasmanian whisky trail - Tasmanian sweets and chocolate trail - Tasmanian farm-gate (fruit) - Tasmanian newspapers online - weather forecast (by town) - fishing licences and real estate for sale (by town), each of which is kept up to date by its own webmaster.
Despite the fact that this work has been written by a serious 'cheapskate', you will be able to choose your own style of visit, ranging from the most basic to absolute luxury, so if you are excited by the thought of exploring Tasmania, you cherish history and love to travel, the Heritage Highway is a must read.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robin Cartledge
• Release date: Feb 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310983887

Robin Cartledge

Returning to my love, Tasmania, after thirty years away, I have resumed my old practice of tripping around and rediscovering the state's history and beauty.I have been writing and publishing my website, Dear Grandpa Pencil, since learning to use a computer in 2001, and love the process so much that I decided to write about tripping around Tasmania.Currently in my seventies, I find the thrill of writing and the risk of putting myself out there a real game changer, adding zest to an already enjoyable life.Dear Grandpa Pencil is a kids/family oriented, omnibus styled site, whose one-thousand plus pages cover such things as activities, rhymes and poetry, science, cooking, Australian history and much more.

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The Heritage Highway

A Cheapskate's Guide to Exploring Tasmania By Car

Written and published by

Robin A. Cartledge

(aka Grandpa Pencil)

Copyright 2015 Robin A. Cartledge

Smashwords Edition

Licence Notes:

This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. Thank you for respecting the author’s work.

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List of contents

A Short Guide to This Guide

This section contains notes on what the guide offers.

Touring Tasmania

Some information about the state, including a (free) downloadable/printable map and a driving distance/time calculator - with fully functional Google Maps.

Getting to Tasmania

Fly or sail? Information on the options, including sailing schedule and booking site for the Spirit of Tasmania.

The Heritage Highway

A little history and some details of the Heritage Highway.

Franklin House

A must visit Georgian style house - preserved by Australia's National Trust.

Evandale

A small National Trust classified Georgian village, sitting on the banks of the South Esk River.

Longford

Originally called Latour, the town grew up around the Longford Hotel - built in 1827 by Newman Williatt - and in 1833 the town was renamed Longford.

Cressy

Tasmania's 'Trout capital'.

Perth

The town was laid out in 1833 and a bridge across the South Esk river was constructed by convict labour three years later.

Campbell Town

Governor Macquarie named the town after his wife's maiden name in 1821.

Ross

Ross is one of Tasmania's most interesting villages and visitors should not pass it by without taking the time to absorb its beauty and history.

The town was of importance as a coach change, a stock market and a garrison town.

Oatlands

Oatlands has the largest collection of sandstone buildings in a village setting in Australia with 87 original sandstone buildings along the town’s main street.

Richmond

Lieut. Governor Bowen named the town Richmond on February 23rd, 1824 and by the 1830s this important military post and convict station became Tasmania's third largest town.

Environment and Produce

Takes a look at Tasmania's environment and a range of its wonderful produce.

External Reference Links

This section contains links to the wine, cheese, beer, mead, cider, whisky, chocolate and farm-gate trails as well as Tasmanian newspapers online, events diary and Inland Fisheries.

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Special Thanks

Before I begin I would like to offer a special thank-you to Janine Westman and Peter Prassinos for their most valued guidance and support with this project.

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A Short Guide to This Guide

This work has been designed to offer the maximum amount of information possible, while remaining an interesting and manageable read.

Each of the sections on individual towns offers its history, places of interest, architecture and things to do as well as availability and location of public toilets, tourist information centres, doctors, police and free camping sites, where available.

For pre-planning or use on the run, this e-Guide is a useful, on-demand tour guide.

In order to control the size of the work while offering maximum information, I have included a number of external links throughout this work to the best data that I can find - each of which is kept up-to-date by its own webmaster.

External links throughout this work include:

Spirit of Tasmania schedule and on-line