Oatlands, as you know, is where Naomi lives and I’ve visited the town often over the years.
Oatlands is one of Tasmania’s oldest settlements, it was on the main route between Hobart and Launceston and features many buildings built from convict made bricks. In fact, it is said that Oatlands has more sandstone heritage buildings than any town in Australia.
Until recently Oatlands was a well kept secret, it is off the highway and people travelling between Hobart and Launceston often by passed the town. Now it is becoming a popular tourist destination and Naomi tells me that the RV camping area is almost always full now, even in winter, unheard of years ago when I was a regular visitor. Oatlands gets really cold in winter.
So here are some of our photos of Oatlands and some links to other posts we’ve written about it. I especially recommend reading Naomi’s post “A Little Bit of Hollywood in Oatlands” for some great photos of the town and the actors in the film “The Nightingale”
Some of our posts about Oatlands:
https://two-sisters.blog/2017/06/09/my-walk-through-callington-park-and-the-oatlands-mill/
https://two-sisters.blog/2017/06/01/a-little-bit-of-hollywood-in-oatlands/
https://two-sisters.blog/2014/06/05/photo-thursday-callington-mill-oatlands-tasmania/
https://two-sisters.blog/2017/07/05/rosehaven-update-from-oatlands/
https://two-sisters.blog/2017/12/24/oatlands-xmas-pageant/
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My home town since 2003. It has changed so much in the last few years. I will be moving soon. One reason is because of the redevelopments and another is because it will become just too busy and noisy for me. I am retiring to Sisters Beach soon so I will try to get some photos showing the biggest changes. Tourists will love all of these things and for them Oatlands is definitely worth a visit and a stay either at the caravan park or the B&Bs etc. I am happy for the people of Oatlands of course as business will thrive but sad it has changed so much. I will miss the way it was. Same thing happened to my old Adelaide suburb Semaphore SA.
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Nice pictures. The place looks both, very English and very Netherland 😀 Because of the windmill and other architecture, combined with the landscape.
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The style of most of the old buildings is Georgian. Tasmania was the second colony settled after NSW and the architecture reflects styles in Britain at the time. The windmill is also a British style. I’ve seen photos of very similar ones in Norfolk. I always wanted to visit The Netherlands to see the windmills, canals and tulips.
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The British style is very visible. Especially the church. 🙂
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