UNIQUE EXPERIENCES LONGFORD

Awarded Best Community Event of the Year in 2014 and 2015, the Festival of Roses at the historic World Heritage Listed Woolmers Estate offers the perfect opportunity to celebrate the spectacle of over 5,000 roses blooming in the Rose Garden. There will be a variety of food stalls including wood fired pizzas, Devonshire teas, crepes and breads, and a selection of wines, beer and cider. Other attractions include plant nurseries, craft and jewellery stalls, whip cracking, chainsaw art, vintage farm machinery and cars, and many children's activities. Open 9am - 4pm....

Longford is 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Launceston and centre for the local farming district. Longford's original architecture remains largely intact. A short drive out of the township, you'll find two of Tasmania's finest country estates, both of which are World Heritage Listed Convict sites: Brickendon, a fascinating farm village with colonial homestead, farm animals and heritage gardens; and Woolmers Estate, acknowledged as one of the most outstanding examples of nineteenth century rural settlements in Australia. Woolmers is also the home of the acclaimed National Rose Garden. This two hectare garden with over 5,000 rose bushes is one of the finest collections of historic roses in the Southern Hemisphere. From 1953 to 1968 the streets of Longford made for the fastest motor racing circuit in the Southern Hemisphere at the time. The Longford circuit of the Australian Grand Prix attracted some of the great drivers and riders of the era, including Sir Jack Brabham, Bob Jane and Jackie Stewart. Local Highlights: • Take a self-guided walking tour of the town. Pick up a map at the local Visitor Centre in the bakery, or at council office in Smith Street. • Solve a crime! While in Longford, why not try your hand at Skulduggery 'Where There's Smoke...', a detective game, and see if you can solve a real mystery that occurred in these parts in 1831.* • Longford Tasmania: Voices from the Graves is a self-guided walk through the Christ Church graveyard at Longford revealing rich, moving and significant themes of the colonial history of this area. Listen to two of the characters tell their story in their own words, to a backdrop of stunning music played on leather instruments.* • The New Years Day Picnic Races is a fun and colourful start to the year, at the oldest horse racing track in the state still in use. • The Blessing of the Harvest Festival on the Village Green is held every March - a fun day for the whole family. • Picnic down by the bridge, overlooking the water. * Purchase from the council office in Smith Street....

Aggie's Bed and Breakfast offers relaxing, country accommodation in historic Longford. Aggie's has two spacious, comfortable rooms with everything you need for a relaxing stay. The rooms have queen size beds, kitchenettes, ensuites, televisions, DVD players and CD players. The Courtyard room has the added bonus of the private courtyard and a single bed and the Garden Lodge Room has laundry facilities. Idyllically set in quiet, private gardens with off-street parking and your choice of a deliciously cooked breakfast served with good old-fashioned hospitality each morning during your stay. Longford is located only a 15-minute drive from the airport and a 25-minute drive from Launceston. This classified historic town is rich in convict history, grand estates, antique galleries, art and craft shops, lovely picnic areas, fishing, river walks, golf course and an award winning bakery. Longford is easy to find and hard to leave and still has the ambiance of a 19th century country village. Two early free-settler estates, Woolmers (1816) and Brickendon (1824) are open to the public daily. Christ Church is the site of the First Settlers Cemetery and an arboretum was created that aspired to represent every tree mentioned in the bible....

We bring you a high speed, adrenaline-fueled driving experience in the V10 Lamborghini Gallardo Race Car. For a full ten laps driving the beast that won Targa Tasmania outright 3 times. Do you want bragging rights in the office or at home with friends and family? This allows you to start by telling them you drove a Lamborghini on the Tasmanian Supercar tracks. Performance Driving Australia is home to the Tasmanian Supercar Experience, bringing a range of high-performance cars to your delegates at both Symmons Plains in the North, and Baskerville Raceway in the South. It doesn’t matter what your level of car knowledge is because our track day experiences will get your adrenaline pumping! Packages range from a few hours through to fully catered days track-side, with the option to be in the drivers seat or let the professionals show you how it’s done while you hold tight in the passenger seat. Viewing areas allow you to spectate (or recover) in comfort and you can choose to add photography and filming of your experience so you can share the moment when you return home ...

Part of Tasmania's World Heritage Convict Sites, Brickendon Historic Farm and Convict Village is located just outside Longford, in northern Tasmania. Built by William Archer in 1824, the village is still owned by his descendants. You have a rare chance to see the convict-built Gothic chapel, Dutch barns, chicken house, blacksmith shop and tool shed. There is a four-hectare (10 acre) historic garden for you to explore. Close to the Georgian homestead, there are garden beds featuring soft plantings of roses and perennials to complement the house's historic façade. Walk along the paths to outlying features including the orchard and original shrubberies. You can experience the 'garden rooms', each with their own mood and ambience. Stand beside the 1830s English and exotic trees including oaks, elms, cedars and pines, sourced throughout the world. Connect with the property's 19th Century beginnings as you walk along the carriageway. Children will love feeding animals or trying their skill at gumboot tossing. Overnight guests at Brickendon can stay at a number of historic farm cottages and have free entry to all the attractions. Longford is about a 20-minute drive (27 km) from Launceston. ...

Woolmers Estate is Australia's finest example of a pioneer farm from the early 1800s and one of Tasmania's World Heritage Convict Sites. Woolmers was continuously occupied by the Archer family from around 1817 to 1994 and is acknowledged as one of the most outstanding examples of 19th century rural settlements in Australia. The estate offers an insight into the social structure of a colonial pastoral estate. The collection of original buildings on Woolmers includes family accommodation, workers' cottages, a former chapel, blacksmith's shop, stables, bakehouse, pump house and gardener's cottage. In addition to the architectural heritage, the site contains a wide range of collections acquired by the family over 180 years, providing a rare insight into six generations of one family. The combination of the historical collections, the buildings and the site itself represents a significant cultural resource. In late spring through to autumn, there is an opportunity to walk through history with thousands of roses, representing the historical development of the rose in the southern hemisphere, ranging from the earliest European and Chinese roses through to varieties of the twenty first century. Woolmers Estate offers guided tours through the main homestead and self-guided tours of the out-buildings. ...

Visit The Tasmanian Honey Company's gift shop and enjoy free tastings, in Perth, Northern Tasmania. The Tasmanian Honey Company began in 1978 as the concept of Julian Wolfhagen, a beekeeper with a profound passion for Tasmania, its wild forests and the honey that they produce. Today Julian employs more than a dozen staff and exports pure, beautifully packaged honey right around the world. The Tasmanian Honey Company's success has largely been built on a passion for, and a commitment to the production of wild and uncompromised leatherwood honey, which they like to think of as the distillate of the wilderness. Julian was involved with bees as a child, however, a re-acquaintance with bees and honey via a good bottle of mead shared around the fire on a cold winters night, planted an inspirational seed that was to grow into what is now the Tasmanian Honey Company. The business has thrived ever since. Perth is a 17-minute drive (18 km) south of Launceston. ...