Bothwell - the Gateway to the Highlands: Ratho golf links, Scottish settlers, River Clyde district | Gwen Webb | 1989 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Bothwell, on the River Clyde in Tasmania's central highlands, was named by Governor George Arthur after a town near Glasgow, Scotland — fitting, since most of the district's earliest settlers, arriving from 1821, were Scottish. Known as the "gateway to the highlands" for its position at the edge of the Central Plateau, the town retains around 60 buildings and sites of historic significance, and holds the Australasian Golf Museum, home to a claim to the oldest continuously running golf course in Australasia, established at Ratho Farm in the 1820s by settler Alexander Reid. The Irish patriot John Mitchel spent time here, and radio astronomy pioneer Grote Reber later lived and worked nearby at Dennistoun. Gwen Webb tells the history of the town and district.

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BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover book
• Published 1989. Now out of print.
• 204-pages, indexed

CONDITION

Used but generally good condition although the binding is fragile; the previous owner's details are written inside the front cover. 

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