Francis Brook

Author

Shire of Woodanilling

Place Number

03520

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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 5	Category 5 Historic Site without built features: recognise, for example with a plaque, place name.

Statement of Significance

It is important for its association with the early exploration of the area and later for the
association with the establishment of the pastoral and agricultural industry in the district.

Physical Description

Francis Brook is a south eastern tributary of the Beaufort River (see Al. 1) and drains the
land east of the Great Southern Highway at Marrocoonda. It joins the Carrolup river
which flows north to this junction and then in a westerly direction. Francis Brook is a
winter flowing watercourse and contains some seepages in summer.

History

It was named by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe in 1835, during an exploration
expedition between Perth and Albany ordered by Governor Stirling to verify Captain
Thomas Bannister's glowing reports about this region during his overland excursion in
1830/31. Roe's party, which included Stirling, left Kelmscott on 4 October, after
reaching Albany (where Stirling returned by sea) and travelling via York they returned to
Perth on 31 December 1835. It was on this return journey that Roe named many of the
Great Southern landmarks. On 20 December, Roe passed midway between the present
towns of Katanning and Kojonup and after naming a watercourse 'Francis Brook' wrote
"Had the pleasure to name the river to which it was a tributary the 'Beaufort' after my
esteemed friend, Captain Francis Beaufort, Hydrographer to the Admiralty."

Further explorations by Alfred Hillman and Governor Stirling crossed the Beaufort River
in the following two years. Hillman's marked track between the colonies two major
ports, Perth and Albany, crossed the Beaufort some kilometres to the west from where the
later line of the (King George's) Sound Road (Albany Highway) was later marked out by
Surveyor Gregory.

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	"Great Southern Expedition" p 74
	John Bird, "Round Pool to Woodanilling", p 3		1985

Place Type

Landscape

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	PARK\RESERVE	Park\Reserve
Present Use	PARK\RESERVE	Park\Reserve

Creation Date

30 Aug 2003

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

01 Jan 2017

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