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Town in Tasmania, Australia

Hadspen

Hadspen is a town on the South Esk River in the north of Tasmania, Australia, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south west of Launceston.

Hadspen
Hadspen · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Hadspen is a town on the South Esk River in the north of Tasmania, Australia, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south west of Launceston. Hadspen has few commercial establishments and is primarily a residential suburb of nearby Launceston. Most of the town's buildings are residential, and relatively recent. The town's population of just over 2000 has grown rapidly from only a few hundred in the 1960s, and there are development plans that call for its doubling.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hadspen

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Entally House

    Entally House is a heritage-listed site in Hadspen, Tasmania. It was the family home of Thomas Reibey, who was the Premier of Tasmania from 1876 to 1877.

    1.7 km · Heritage listed building in Tasmania, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Hadspen

Airports
Hobart (HBA), 153 km
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Hadspen
    153 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · A$23–31
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Hadspen
    444 km · quickest by road, 14h 1m · A$75–100
  • Melbourne → Hadspen
    448 km · quickest by road, 13h 56m · A$75–95
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hadspen

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hadspen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    201 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,065 km
  3. 03
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,726 km
  4. 04
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,896 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,649 km

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