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 Sevenhill Cellars
College Rd, Sevenhill 5453. Tel (08)
8843 4222. Open 10am–5pm daily.
Closed 1 Jan, Good Fri, Easter Sun,
25 & 26 Dec. 7
P Martindale Hall
Manoora Rd, Mintaro 5415. Tel (08)
8843 9088. Open Wed–Mon. &
P Bungaree Station
431 Bungaree Rd, Clare. Tel (08)
8842 2677. Open accommodation
available, check website. & 7
Restored 19th-century buildings at Burra Mine near the Clare Valley ∑ bungareestation.com.au
6Clare Valley mine in Australia. As such it was P Burra Visitor Information Centre
the economic saviour of the 2 Market St, Burra. Tel (08) 8892 2154.
@ Clare. n Clare Valley Wine, Food & Open 9am–5pm daily. Closed 25 Dec.
Tourism Centre, 8 Spring Gully Rd, Clare. fledgling state, rescuing it from & 7 limited.
1800 242 131. ∑ clarevalley.com.au impending bankruptcy. Burra
is now a State Heritage Area.
Framed by the rolling hills of the The Burra Mine Site, with 7Port Pirie
northern Mount Lofty Ranges, its ruins and restored buildings
Clare Valley is a picturesque and around the huge open cut, is * 22,000. £ @ @ n 3 Mary Elie
premium wine-producing region. one of Australia’s most exciting St 1800 000 424. Open Mon–Fri.
At the head of the valley lies the industrial archaeological sites.
town of Clare. This regional centre Morphett’s Engine House Port Pirie was the state’s first
has many historic buildings, Museum (open every morning) is provincial city. An industrial
including the Old Police Station a renovated three-storey Cornish hub, it is the site of the largest
Museum, housed in the old engine house. An interpretive lead smelter in the southern
Police Station, and Wolta Wolta, centre at the Bon Accord Mining hemisphere.
an early pastoralist’s home, built Museum allows visitors access In the town centre, the National
in 1846, which has a fine collect- to the original mine shafts. The Trust Museum comprises three
ion of antiques. Visitors have the miners’ dugouts, still seen on the well-preserved buildings: the
option of staying here. banks of Burra Creek, were once pavilion-style railway station built
Sevenhill Cellars, 7 km (4 miles) home to more than 1,500 mainly in 1902, the former customs house
south of Clare, is the oldest Cornish miners. Paxton Square and the old police building. The
vineyard in the valley. It was Cottages, built between 1849 and Regional Tourism and Arts Centre,
established by Austrian Jesuits in 1852, are unique in Australian located in the former 1967 railway
1851, originally to produce altar mining history as the first decent station, features artworks on lead,
wine for the colonies. The adjacent accommodation provided for zinc and copper panels interpret-
St Aloysius Church was completed miners and their families. Many ing the city’s historic wealth.
in 1875. The winery is still owned old buildings, including the police Port Pirie also boasts a
by Jesuits and now produces lockup and stables, the Redruth miniature railway. Visitors can
both altar and table wines. Gaol and the Unicorn Brewery enjoy a ride on the 1st or 3rd
East of Sevenhill lies the Cellars, have been restored, as Sunday of every month.
heritage town of Mintaro, with have a number of the 19th-cen-
many buildings making extensive tury shops and houses. A museum E National Trust Museum
use of the slate quarried in the chronicling the history is located 73–77 Ellen St. Tel (08) 8632 3435.
area for more than 150 years. in Burra market square. Open daily. Closed 25 Dec. 7 limited.
Also worth visiting is Martindale
Hall, an elegant 1879 mansion
situated just southeast of town.
Twelve km (7 miles) north of
Clare lies Bungaree Station. This
self-contained Merino sheep-
farming complex was established
in 1841 and is now maintained
as a working 19th-century model.
The historic exhibits here reveal
the life and work at the station.
About 35 km (22 miles) north-
east of Clare is the charming town
of Burra. Five years after copper
was discovered here in 1845,
Burra was home to the largest Victorian grandeur of Port Pirie’s old railway station
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp491–2 and pp522–5