Toodyay pioneer heritage trail
Toodyay pioneer heritage trail was a trail created by the Toodyay Bicentennial Community Committee in 1988 for the Australian Bicentenary as part of the W.A. Heritage Trails Network.[1]
The brochure created for the trail has the subtitle Early Settlement of Toodyay in the Avon Valley, Western Australia, and it covers 20 km that includes the West Toodyay townsite.[2]
The identified sites were:
- 1. Morangup Hill
- 2. Morangup Spring
- 3. Jimperding Hill Descent
- 4. Jimperding Pool and Nolan's Rock
- not numbered but identified "Deepdale homestead"
West Toodyay historic sites:
- 5. West Toodyay School
- 6. Samuel Ferguson's cottage
- 7. Royal Oak Inn[3]
- 8. Highland Laddie[4]
- 9. Queen's Head Hotel[3]
- 10. Military Barracks
- 11. Colonial School
- 12. Lock Up
- 13. Catholic Chapel
- 14. Newcastle Recreation Ground and Cottage
The 1988 trail ended at the Duidgee Park Picnic Area[5] – from that point, there were two other trails - the River Gum Trail, and the Newcastle Walking Trail that continued into the Toodyay township.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Heritage Council of Western Australia (1988), Toodyay Pioneer Heritage Trail : early settlement of Toodyay in the Avon Valley, Western Australia : a Commonwealth/State Bicentennial Project, Heritage Council of W.A, retrieved 6 November 2016
- ^ Western Australia. Department of Lands and Surveys (1911), West Toodyay townsite, Dept. of Lands & Surveys W.A, retrieved 6 November 2016
- ^ a b "REMINDERS OF OLD TOODYAY". The West Australian. Vol. XLIX, no. 9, 758. Western Australia. 7 October 1933. p. 20. Retrieved 6 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "TOODYAY". The West Australian. Vol. XLIX, no. 9, 758. Western Australia. 7 October 1933. p. 20. Retrieved 6 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ [1] - Duidgee Park used for Australia Day ceremonies