Type: | town |
Ellendale | |
State: | tas |
Coordinates: | -42.6167°N 189°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pop: | 241 |
Pop Footnotes: | [1] |
Postcode: | 7140 |
Lga: | Central Highlands Council |
County: | Australia |
Stategov: | Lyons |
Fedgov: | Lyons |
Region: | Central |
Location1: | Hamilton |
Dist1: | 22 |
Dir1: | SW |
Near-Nw: | Florentine |
Near-N: | Ouse |
Near-Ne: | Hamilton |
Near-E: | Meadowbank |
Near-W: | Florentine |
Near-Sw: | Mount Field |
Near-S: | National Park, Mount Field |
Near-Se: | Fentonbury |
Ellendale is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Central Highlands in the Central LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about south-west of the town of Hamilton. The 2016 census recorded a population of 241 for the state suburb of Ellendale.[1] It is a village in Tasmania 75 kilometres from Hobart in the Derwent Valley.[2]
Ellendale was gazetted as a locality in 1959. The locality was named for the wife of Nicholas John Brown, who was the Minister for Lands and Works when it was surveyed.[3]
Ellendale Post Office opened on 16 April 1880.[4]
The River Derwent (Meadowbank Lake) forms part of the north-eastern boundary, while the Broad River forms the north-western. The Jones River flows through from south to north.
Route C608 (Ellendale Road) runs through from north to south-east.[3] [5]