Local Government
Woodanilling
Region
Great Southern
Beaufort Station Beaufort River
Dungarlaring Spring
Woodanilling
Great Southern
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 18 Mar 2003 | Category 4 | |
The spring is important for its association with the development of the pastoral industry in the region and with pioneering families.
The spring is located on the south east of the Martup Hills. It is also spelt Dungarlaring Spring. It is situated in a gully close (30 metres SW of) to the corner of the location which was the first surveyed in the Shire. It is due east of the trig point on Martup Hill. The spring is now not a reliable supply and when inspected in mid November 1999 only had a puddle in the bottom of the silted up soak.
The first pastoralist to the Beaufort River was Edward Hamersley. On 31 March 1852 he was granted a lease of 10,000 acres centred on the Martup Hills. Within this lease 15 acres surveyed to freehold Dungalar Spring (Locn V) and locations 1-4 of 10 acres apiece near the site of the Beaufort Bridge. These were the first land selections in the Williams district freeholded outside of the immediate vicinity of the Williams River. Hamersley decided to concentrate his southern leases near the Williams River bridge and new prospects in the Champion Bay area finally saw him transfer the Martup lease to William Cornwall in 1866. Cornwall had previously taken up J.H. Monger's relinquished lease at Queerearrup and the Martup leases. Cornwall who came to the colony as a 'young emigrant' in 1840 when a lad of 15 years worked initially for JH Monger at York. Having acquired both capital and experience in Monger's employ, Cornwall saw the opportunities is the Beaufort area. In 1860 he married Eliza Malone, a young Irish immigrant. The site of their first home at the Beaufort is not certain, but soon the grand Beaufort Station homestead was built. By 1862 Cornwall was freeholding land within the Martup Lease and by 1868 a total of 1040 acres amongst the Martup Hills had been purchased by Cornwall. The well also appears to have been known as Martup Well.
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| John Bird Round Pool to Woodanilling ps 14-18, 44, 60, 90-94, 263 | 1985 |
Landscape
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| Original Use | FARMING\PASTORAL | Other |
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| DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Exploration & surveying |
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