Mona Vale

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.

Type: Building
Description: country estate in Tasmania
Also known as: “Mona Vale, Tasmania”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Horton College.

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. Horton College is situated 4 km northwest of Mona Vale.

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 8 km southwest of Mona Vale.

Mona Vale

Location: Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-42.09228° or 42° 5′ 32″ south

Longitude

147.5014° or 147° 30′ 5″ east

Open location code

4R99WG52+3H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 459480284

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

Wikidata ID

Q6897731

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