Type: | town |
Gowrie Park | |
State: | tas |
Pop: | 32 |
Pop Footnotes: | [1] |
Postcode: | 7306 |
Region: | North-west and west |
Location1: | Sheffield |
Dist1: | 14 |
Dir1: | SW |
Lga: | Kentish |
Stategov: | Lyons |
Fedgov: | Lyons |
Near-Nw: | Promised Land |
Near-N: | Claude Road |
Near-Ne: | Claude Road |
Near-E: | Mount Roland |
Near-W: | Staverton |
Near-Sw: | Mount Roland |
Near-S: | Mount Roland |
Near-Se: | Mount Roland |
Gowrie Park is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Kentish in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about south-west of the town of Sheffield. The 2016 census recorded a population of 32 for the state suburb of Gowrie Park.[1]
Gowrie Park was gazetted as a locality in 1957. The name is believed to have come from the farm of an early settler.[2]
The Dasher River flows through from south-west to north.
Route C136 (Claude Road) passes through from north to south.[2] [3]