Horton Hill
Horton Hill is a peak in Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania and has an elevation of 377 metres. Horton Hill is situated nearby to the locality Kitchener Ridge, as well as near Beaufront Downs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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 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.
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 10 km south of Horton Hill.
Horton Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 377 metres
- Description: mountain in Australia
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-42.05502° or 42° 3′ 18″ southLongitude
147.4629° or 147° 27′ 46″ eastElevation
377 metres (1,237 feet)Open location code
4R99WFV7+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 3008760041OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Horton Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Horton Hill”
- Dutch: “Horton Hill”
- Swedish: “Horton Hill (kulle i Australien, Tasmanien, Northern Midlands)”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Old Stables and Ross Uniting Church.
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