Cornwall, Tasmania Explained

Type:	town
Cornwall
State:	tas
Pop:	82
Pop Footnotes:	^[1]
Postcode:	7215
Region:	North-east
Location1:	St Helens
Dist1:	44
Dir1:	SW
Lga:	Break O'Day
Stategov:	Lyons
Fedgov:	Lyons
Near-Nw:	St Marys
Near-N:	St Marys
Near-Ne:	St Marys
Near-E:	St Marys
Near-W:	St Marys
Near-Sw:	St Marys
Near-S:	St Marys
Near-Se:	St Marys

Cornwall is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Break O'Day in the North-east LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about south-west of the town of St Helens. The 2016 census recorded a population of 65 for the state suburb of Cornwall.^[2]

History

Cornwall was gazetted as a locality in 1973.^[3]

It was named by Governor King in 1804, after Cornwall in Britain, which never mined coal, it was a tin mining area.^[4]

Geography

Cornwall is completely surrounded by the locality of St Marys.

Road infrastructure

Route A4 (Esk Main Road) passes to the south of the locality, from where Cornwall Road provides access.^[3] ^[5]

Notes and References

Web site: 2021 Census Quick Stats Cornwall (Tas.) . . 2022-06-22 . quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au . Australian Bureau of Statistics . 2022-07-26 .
Web site: 2016 Census Quick Stats Cornwall (Tas.) . . 23 October 2017 . quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au . Australian Bureau of Statistics . 13 September 2020 .
Web site: Placenames Tasmania – Cornwall . . Placenames Tasmania . 13 September 2020 . Select “Search”, enter "961G", click “Search”, select row, map is displayed, click “Details”.
Web site: Where in Tasmania? A-K Page 35 . Dennison Publications . July 2003 . 14 December 2020.
Web site: Tasmanian Road Route Codes . https://web.archive.org/web/20170801112712/http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/Route%20Descriptions%20V3.6.pdf . dead . 2017-08-01 . . May 2017 . Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment . 13 September 2020 .