York (Western Australia) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About York (Western Australia)
By 1830 the British colony on Swan River, the future Perth, had room a-plenty for building but had insufficient farmland to feed its population. An expedition probed east of the Darling mountains and found good pastoral country here in the Avon valley, so it was quickly settled by farmsteads. A town appeared by 1836 but there was violent conflict with theAboriginal people, the Ballardong Noongar, until a military sally killed enough of them to put British occupation beyond doubt. As elsewhere in Western Australia, a shortage of labour was filled by transported convicts, many of them Irish, at a time when the rest of Australia had ceased to use them. They were housed in a Convict Depot, and many settled in the region when their sentence was served rather than return to poverty and oppressio
Top Attractions in York (Western Australia)
Explore the best things to see and do in York (Western Australia):
- ★York Courthouse
- ★York Motor Museum
- ★York Residency Museum
Where to Stay in York (Western Australia)
- 🏨Faversham House
- 🏨Hillside Country Retreat
- 🏨Settlers Hotel
- 🏨Travellers Rest Caravan Park
- 🏨York Motel
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