Travellers Rest, Tasmania

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

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)	Lyons
Federal Division(s)	Lyons
Suburbs around Travellers Rest: Blackstone Heights Prospect Vale Travellers Rest Prospect Vale

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 12 May 2017.
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.