Tomb Hill
Tomb Hill is a hill in Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania and has an elevation of 345 metres.Places of Interest
Highlights include Horton College and Ross Female Factory.
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.
Ross Female Factory
Museum
The Ross Female Factory, a former Australian workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, is located in the village of Ross, in the midlands region of Tasmania. Ross Female Factory is situated 3½ km northeast of Tomb Hill.
Ross Bridge
Bridge
Photo: JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ross Bridge is an historic bridge in the town of Ross in central Tasmania, Australia, completed in July 1836. It crosses the Macquarie River. The sandstone bridge was constructed by convict labour, and is the third oldest bridge still in use in Australia. Ross Bridge is situated 3½ km northeast of Tomb Hill.
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 9 km south of Tomb Hill.
Tomb Hill
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 345 metres
- Category: landform
- Location: Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-42.06° or 42° 3′ 36″ southLongitude
147.47° or 147° 28′ 12″ eastElevation
345 metres (1,132 feet)Open location code
4R99WFQC+X2GeoNames ID
8853110
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