Brown Hills
Brown Hills is a hill in Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania and has an elevation of 240 metres.Places of Interest
Highlights include Horton College and Mona Vale.
Horton College
Ruins
Photo: JTdale, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Horton College was a 19th-century independent Wesleyan Methodist boys' boarding school, at Mona Vale near Ross, Tasmania, Australia. Founded by Captain Samuel Horton in 1855, the college closed in 1894; and during its brief period it was considered an extremely prestigious school, counting many of the region's landed families of the period as students.
Mona Vale
Building
Mona Vale is a large heritage listed 1860s country house in Ross, Tasmania. Completed in 1867, it is well known locally as the "Calendar House", for its reportedly 365 windows, 52 rooms, 12 chimneys and seven entrances. Mona Vale is situated 3 km southeast of Brown Hills.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ross and Tunbridge.
Ross
Photo: JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ross is a small historic town in the centre of the Tasmanian Midlands, 120 km north of Hobart and 80 km south of Launceston. Ross was first settled in 1821 as a garrison town for soldiers, as a coaching stop on the Midlands Highway and as a market town.
Tunbridge
Village
Tunbridge is a rural locality in the local government areas of Northern Midlands and Southern Midlands in the Central LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 24 kilometres north of the town of Oatlands. Tunbridge is situated 7 km southwest of Brown Hills.
Brown Hills
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 240 metres
- Category: landform
- Location: Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-42.08° or 42° 4′ 48″ southLongitude
147.47° or 147° 28′ 12″ eastElevation
240 metres (787 feet)Open location code
4R99WFCC+22GeoNames ID
8853096
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