Beaufort Well

Author

Shire of Woodanilling

Place Number

23535

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Location

Ways Rd Beaufort River

Location Details

Local Government

Woodanilling

Region

Great Southern

Construction Date

Demolition Year

N/A

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Municipal Inventory	Adopted	18 Mar 2003	Category 3	Category 3 Retain and conserve if possible: Council will endeavour to conserve the significance of the place through the provisions of the town planning scheme; photographically record the place prior to any major redevelopment or demolition.

Statement of Significance

The site is important for its connection with the first European settlement of the area and
for its association with pioneering families.

Physical Description

It is situated 0.5 km to the west of the Beaufort Station homestead in a flat gully. It is
about 100 metres south of a Salt Spring noted on early maps.

Originally a well, the seepage area has been excavated to increase the supply. The site
has remnants of a windmill which later pumped the water up the rise to the homestead.

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The site is important for its connection with the first European settlement of the area and
for its association with pioneering families.

History

The site for the new Cornwall homestead was chosen near a fresh water creek in the
Martup Hills. This creek is remarkable in that it flows just as strongly in the summer as
the winter although it is now more salty than in earlier times..

The Martup Hills with its rich soil was splendid grass and cereal land, but generally
lacked water. The area contained several underground supplies - Dungarlar Spring, the
Convict (Martup) Well, Salt Spring and two wells north east of the homestead. One of
these (near the store) was known as God's Well - so named as it was the storage site for
one of the Beaufort Station's residents liquor supply.

In early times the large river pools of the Beaufort River were a guaranteed supply of
fresh water for the flocks of sheep. However with closer settlement and fencing other
sources needed to be found and the Martup Hills area soil was not conducive to water run
off and hence dams were not very satisfactory.

This well supplied the homestead needs until the 1970's - by this time increasing salinity
necessitated shandying it with fresh water for garden purposes. While still suitable for
stock water, the Beaufort Homestead is now watered from the Convict (Martup) Well on
the Albany Highway.

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	John Bird, Round Pool to Woodanilling ps 17, 263		1985
	Photos: 12/5-12/7

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	FARMING\PASTORAL	Other

Creation Date

12 Aug 2011

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

31 Dec 2016

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