| Type: | town |
| Derwent Bridge | |
| State: | tas |
| Coordinates: | -42.1333°N 159°W |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Lga: | Central Highlands |
| Region: | Central |
| Postcode: | 7140 |
| Pop: | 40 |
| Pop Year: | 2021 census |
| Pop Footnotes: | [1] |
| Stategov: | Lyons |
| Fedgov: | Lyons |
| Location1: | Hamilton |
| Dist1: | 101 |
| Dir1: | NW |
| Near-Nw: | Lake St Clair |
| Near-N: | Walls of Jerusalem |
| Near-Ne: | Central Plateau |
| Near-E: | Bronte Park |
| Near-W: | Southwest |
| Near-Sw: | Southwest |
| Near-S: | Butlers Gorge |
| Near-Se: | Bronte Park |
Derwent Bridge is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Central Highlands in the Central LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north-west of the town of Hamilton. The 2021 Census it listed with a population of 40 for the state suburb of Derwent Bridge.[1] It is on the Lyell Highway at the southern edge of the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park.
It is just south of Lake St Clair and the Lake St Clair visitor centre; and it is north of Lake King William and the Butlers Gorge Power Station.
It is also the last inhabited location before Linda Valley in the West Coast Range - this section of the highway passes through the Wild Rivers National Park. In the past there were a couple of isolated houses along Lyell Highway that have been removed.
Today, Derwent Bridge features not only the bridge alluded to in its name – spanning the Derwent River – but accommodation units, and also a roadside public house.
Derwent Bridge was used as a principal filming location for the 2008 film The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce.
Derwent Bridge was gazetted as a locality in 1959.[2]
Derwent Bridge Post Office opened on 15 February 1937 and closed in 1980.[3]
According to the 2021 Census, Derwent Bridge had a population of 40 people. Males constituted 40.9% and females 59.1% and the median age was 33. The average number of people per household was 1.4 and the median household income $1,292.
The Derwent River flows through from north to south. The northern end of Lake King William protrudes into the locality.
Route A10 (Lyell Highway) passes through from east to south-west. Route C193 (Lake St Clair Road) starts at an intersection with A10 and runs north-west until it exits.[2] [4]