Australia YORK WESTERN AUSTRALIA 97 Km inland from PERTH The Heritage town of YORK has various activities to offer visitors (inquiries to York Tourist Bureau 08 9641 1301 situated in the Town Hall) An excellent range of accommodation awaits the visitor: Caravan Park, Motel, B. & B’s both new and heritage, with up to 4 to5 stars, self-contained cottages, farm stays and Backpackers accommodation. Contact York Tourist Bureau 08 96 411 301. There are a variety of hotels, cafes, restaurants and coffee shops for all kinds of meals and takeaways including pizza, Chinese food and alfresco meals at a restored railway carriage by the river. Also shops, Antiques, fine furniture and Art Galleries and two fuel outlets. WHAT YOU CAN SEE AND DO ……….. HERITAGE CHURCHES : Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Newcastle St., consecrated in 1858, has vibrant coloured stained glass windows designed by noted Perth artist Robert Juniper. Tel. 9641 1081, Sunday Service 9am St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, South St. built in the 1880s. It is in the Gothic revival style with imported Italian stained glass windows. Tel. 9641 1477 Sunday Mass 9.30am. Uniting Church, 1888, Pool St. First church 1854 now used as hall. Tel.9641 2274. Sunday Service 9.30 am Salvation Army (ph. 9641 1420), Church of Christ (ph. 9641 2056) and Jehovah’s Witnesses (ph. 9641 1312) worship in buildings of the 20th century. MUSEUMS : COURTHOUSE COMPLEX - gaol cells etc. 10am – 4pm. For groups, make a booking to get volunteer guides (usually available) 96412072 entry fee applies MOTOR MUSEUM open 7 days 9.30 – 3.pm 9641 1288 – entry fee applies RESIDENCY MUSEUM open Tues, Wed, Thurs 12n-3pm. Weekends and public holidays 11am-3.30pm. Adult $3.00 Child $1.50. Group bookings welcome and opening at other times can usually be arranged .phone/fax9641 1751 for charges. www.residencymuseum@westnet.com.au See the old TIPPERARY SCHOOL in the Sandalwood Yards, Avon Terrace. To have the school opened for you, phone the York Tourist Bureau on 96411301 modest entry fee applies. YORK SOCIETY ARCHIVES CENTRE 9641 1765. Available for researchWednesdays11am –4pm or by appointment on 9641 1149 MINIATURE VILLAGE 2 km out on Gt .Southern Highway. Based on English country village scale 1:12. Collection of handmade artefacts. Open most days 9 –5pm. Small entry fee. 9641 1822. PARKS & GARDENS : AVON PARK: town picnic spot alongside the town pool in the Avon River. Shaded children’s play equipment, BBQs , toilets, parking, roofed shelters, band rotunda, swing bridge. ORIGINAL ANGLICAN CHURCH and cemetery site. Shady park cnr Avon Tce and Balladong St. CENTENNIAL PARK, Macartney St near corner Georgiana St. BUSHLAND GARDEN. Corner Grey and Ford Sts. Newly formed with plants of the Wheatbelt. HISTORICAL ROSE GARDEN Osnaburg Rd. Gold coin entry . Wonderful selection of rose varieties. Tea rooms, toilets. Inquiries 9641 1469 ASHWORTH’S HERITAGE ROSE HEDGE. Planted circa 1890. Ulster Rd near corner Osnaburg Rd PEACE PARK. Between South and Joaquina Sts. GALLERIES TIPPERARY CHURCH GALLERY paintings, ceramics, scarves etc for sale, attractively displayed in gallery adjacent to the old Tipperary Church on Northam Road approx 13km from York. 9641 1168. JAHROC MILL GALLERY Broome St internationally renowned for fine furniture also art, sculpture, antiques and a Café and toilets. 9641 2522 OLD BAKERY Avon Terrace, Handcrafted furniture and cottage crafts 9641 1600 NATURE & ECO TOURISM NATIVE FLOWER FARM best in Winter and Spring $5.00 per head includes cordial or tea and scones. Phone Pat McGregor 9641 1184 for bookings. WILDFLOWERS High season Aug – Oct. See Tourist Bureau for maps. 08 9641 1301 BIRDWATCHING ask at York Tourist Bureau for coloured brochure. For list of birds seen at Wallaby Hills ask at Kookaburras Backpackers in Avon Terrace. RURAL INTERESTS OLIVE OIL orchard and processing plant in Ashworth Road off Gt .Southern Highway . Open Sundays and public holidays 10am – 5pm 9641 2200 AMBLESIDE EMU FARM guided tours - bookings essential 9641 1274 or 9641 2992. Groups up to 20 students $3.00 per head. Adult groups $3.00 per head. Individuals $5.50 COOLALINGA FARM VISITS Group visits approx 1 – 1 ½ hours by appointment 9641 4047. Minimum 10 people $7.00 per head WHITEBOURNE EQUESTRIAN CENTRE Horse riding and other activities . S & M. Britza 96 461 392. AVONDALE DISCOVERY FARM & RESEARCH STATION approx 40 km via Beverley. Visit Gwambygine Park on the Avon River on the way to the Research Station which is on Waterhatch Road. Excellent farm machinery museum, farm animals including draught horses, picnic facilities open daily, (restored homestead open some weekends phone Beverley Tourist Bureau 9646 1555 for details) ADVENTURE TOURISM SKY DIVE tandem and solo jumps over the picturesque Avon Valley. Café, toilets – spectators welcome. Inquiries 1800 355 833. HANG GLIDING take in a bird’s eye view of the Avon Valley. Also Beverley Soaring Society 0407 385 361 BALLOON FLIGHTS Windward Adventure Champagne Balloon flights over the picturesque Avon Valley 08 9621 2000. GLIDING. ….Beverley ARTS ARTS AND CRAFTS SPINNING Local spinners meet to pursue this ancient craft every second Wednesday from 10am – 2pm in the York R.S.L. Hall, Avon Terrace. Visitors very welcome, Phone Pat 9641 2889 or Pam 9641 1770. PAINTING 2 hour sessions with local art lecturer, all materials supplied. $10.00 per head. Limit 10 at a session. Phone Genie A. on 96411 632 or fax 9641 1635. Cost as at Oct.2003 SCULPTURE (8years and upward) 3 hour session – take home a finished piece. Limit 10 at a session $10.00 per head.. Phone Genie A. On 96411 632 or fax 96411 635. Cost as at Oct.2003. HOBBY CERAMICS Workshop with Murray Cook 96 41 1 032. Max 10 at a session $20.00 per head ($25.00 per. head for adults). Create a piece on the first day of your visit and fired piece will be ready on third day. Costs as at Oct. 2003. ACTIVITIES YORK PONY CLUB Dinsdale Road 9641 2627 YORK HORSEMENS’ ASSOCIATION Hack events second Sunday of every month from March to August. Spectators and new competitors welcome. Inquiries Phone 9622 9554 Play CROQUET on one of the oldest Croquet Lawns in the state still functioning, with local players to show you how. Day and night sessions. Inquiries Eric Ayling 96411136. Children’s groups $5.oo per head includes use of gear, instruction, cordial and bikkies. Adults $7.oo per head includes use of gear, instruction, tea, coffee and bikkies TENNIS visitors welcome at Saturday or Sunday Club playing days. Private hire of courts from Newsagency in Avon Terrace 9641 1091. Inquiries Greg Jones 9641 2215. BOWLS Any bowlers welcome during bowling season. Phone 9641 2373, 9641 4343, or 9641 2696 for range of playing times. Scroungers – names in by 5pm Fridays. SQUASH Contact Shire office 9641 2233 (office hours 8.30am –4.30pm) to arrange booking for court. $5.50 per hour GOLF Members of other clubs welcome to join local players on club days. Honour system available at other times. phone 9l641 1377 SWIMMING POOL Georgiana St. phone 9641 1410 for Summer opening times HORSE RACING The York-Beverley Turf Club (Inc), Mt. Bakewell, York 9641 1131 – the oldest continuously running club in Australia holds several race meetings per year. HARNESS RACING at York Agricultural Society Show Grounds Trotting Track. Several meetings per year. Inquiries 9641 2105 . WALKS Four Heritage walk trails around town (booklet soon to be available from York Tourist Bureau) with directions and historical notes on the buildings and sites along the way. SUSPENSION BRIDGE (Built at the turn of the century, it was refurbished in 1988) walk over the swinging bridge from Avon Park to visit Holy Trinity Church. Good environmental and historical information on a board. AVON RIVER WALK TRAIL Commences at the Suspension Bridge approx 1.5 km – some board walk - historical and environmental signage - wheel chair access. Bird life in abundance. You may even see the majestic wedge tailed eagle soaring above the town. For an optional return, walk back along Avon Tce passed historical cottages. Walk through OLD CEMETERY in Herbert Road – worksheet available. Advise York police on 96411400 if going there at night. Also self-guided or professionally guided walk in BLANDSTOWN where the Old Albion Inn, small cottages and bootmaker’s workshop still stand, much as they did in the 1800’s Professional Tour Guides available for bus or walking tours around York. Contact York Tourist Bureau 08 9641 1301 Walk trail in MOUNT OBSERVATON area – (not a formed trail –rather rough going) ACTIVITIES particularly for the YOUNG QUIZZES: two available from York Tourist Bureau to do while walking around historic York (suitable for adults also) WORKSHEETS available #York aboriginal legend #Australian Flag #Making Peg dolls # and others - phone Adelphe King ph/fax 9641 1799 for list and master copies to be mailed or faxed. Nominal charge to cover copying and postage. SKATE RAMPS available in park near river. KITE FLYING – open area at corner of Forrest and Henrietta Streets. EVENTS (various events take place annually): SWAP MEET MARKETS Avon Park, Second Saturday morning each month For MOTORING events such as the Flying 50, German car day, Festival of Cars etc. contact The York Motor Museum 08 9641 1288 for dates and times. JAZZ FESTIVAL usually on last long weekend in September, contact York Tourist Bureau 08 9641 1301 for dates. Book early for accommodation. SPRING GARDEN FESTIVAL mid to late October, contact York Tourist Bureau for dates 08 9641 1301 YORK SOCIETY ART AND CRAFT AWARDS notable exhibition held in York Town Hall for the past 30 years for a week in late October, contact York Society 08 9641 1339 for entry forms and categories for awards. YORK SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARDS Every April: Phone 08 9641 1339 for entry forms and list of awards ANTIQUE AND COLLECTORS’ FAIR York Town Hall, Easter Weekend. Inquiries 9641 1062 HEALING FAYRE York Town Hall, Third Sunday in May. Inquiries Louise Plant 9628 7042 ANNUAL FLOWER SHOW The York Uniting Church Flower Show is held in the magnificent York Town Hall with a blaze of colour and perfume on the day before Mothers’ Day each May. Phone Jan 9641 1908 for categories, entry forms, inquiries etc. YORK AGRIULTURAL SOCIETY ANNUAL SHOW held at the York Showgrounds. Includes animal, farming, domestic, craft, art, equestrian exhibits and events, plus rides and sideshows. President 9641 1048 DOWERIN FIELD DAYS: stay in York with easy choice of accommodation and visit Dowerin’s three day event during last week in August with thousands of exhibitors: machinery, demonstrations, inventions, family, garden, health etc. SCENIC DRIVES Five loop drives of varying lengths starting from York through Avon Valley farmlands and back roads (directions leaflets from York Tourist Bureau) MT.BROWN LOOKOUT Scenic drive up to the top of Mt. Brown with sweeping views of town and valley; picnic facilities and toilets available. . Mt. OBSERVATION approx 20 km on Perth side of York - elevated picnic spot among the gumtrees and spring wildflowers, overlooking endless eucalypt forest. Orienteering trail starts here (map guide available from Tourist Bureau). . GWAMBYGINE PARK picnic shelters, kid’s playground, boardwalk, rotunda lookout overlooking Avon River, toilets and BBQs. 10kms on the lower Beverley Road ATTRACTIONS NEAR YORK OLD GOLDFIELDS ROAD from York to Southern Cross. Start from the York Railway Station and follow the trail the early gold seekers took, some pushing their worldly goods on home made barrows. Find Hunt’s wells and rock-catchment dams surveyed in the l860s. MECKERING approx 43 km. Earthquake site and information centre. CAMERA MUSEUM amazing extensive collection of cameras. Native plant nursery. GOLDEN PIPELINE from York you can join the National Trust’s self-drive trail following C.Y. O’Connor’s amazing masterpiece of technology taking life-giving WATER from the Hills to Kalgoorlie in 1903. Phone York Tourist Bureau 9641 301 for map and information. Join the Trail at Clackline(approx 36 km),Grass Valley (approx 40 km) or Northam (35 km). PRINCE GROWERS NURSERY approx 28 km from York on the Northam Road – wide selection of native plants, attractive surroundings 9622 2971. . CUNDERDIN approx 67 km. Excellent museum in Old Pumping Station. Have a drink at the reproduction Ettamogorah Pub newly erected in the main Street. SPENCER’S BROOK approx 28 km. Historic Tavern on the old Railway Line. Sites remain from the days when Spencer’s Brook was an important stopping place, with tearooms on the station. Phone 9622 2422 for opening hours. HISTORICAL MARKER 19.5 km out of York on the Spencer’s Brook Road. Large rock with plaque marking first European sighting of the Avon Valley in 1830. GREENHILLS HOTEL approx 25 km. Beautifully restored licensed 1910 hotel in the once thriving town of Greenhills. See restored old Bakery and St. Andrew’s Anglican Church and cemetery. .DAY TRIPS FROM YORK Take a picnic lunch from York and drive through the farmlands of Western Australia’s wheatbelt: . TOAPIN WEIR approx 55 km. See early settlers’ rock catchment dam in the bush on the Quairading Road. Carry on 7 km to DANGIN, founded in 1902, 7km further, on to QUAIRADING (1907) 67 km from York. Then approx 46 km on to KOKERBIN ROCK a high granite tor, home to distinctive fauna and flora including sandalwood. Also a rock well superbly constructed by early settlers. Picnic facilities and toilets. BOYAGIN ROCK approx 85 km via Brookton. Large granite tor with associated flora. Aboriginal legend about a great flood pertaining to this sacred site. Picnic tables and basic toilets . BEVERLEY approx 32 km Colonial buildings from 1886s. Aeronautical Museum. Beverley Tourist Information 9646 1555. Dead Finish Museum (1872) open Sundays 11am-3pm Mid March to November, contact 9646 1246 . Ask for Wildflower Map listing wildflowers to see in season. .TOODYAY approx 59km via Northam, phone Visitors’ Centre 9574 2435 for information on Connor’s Mill, Old Gaol Museum, Earth Sculptures, Lavender Estate and other attractions. HODDYWELL ARCHERY PARK 330 Clackline Road 9574 2410. Closed Mondays. COORINJA WINERY Toodyay Road, 9574 2280 Mon – Sat 10am – 5 pm. CARTREF PARK COUNTRY GARDENS 17km from Toodyay off Sandspring Road, Julimar Road (9574 2295) April to November Tues –Sun and Monday Public Hols. AVONBROOK WINES 7 Benrua Road, Clackline 9574 1070. Tastings for 1 or 2 or groups. 10am -5pm. Phone before coming on weekdays. WANNADOO AQUACULTURE Recreational Fishing LOT 533 Julimar Road Toodyay 9574 2456 open weekends or by appointment NORTHAM 35km with white swans on the Avon River – the starting point for the internationally known white water Avon Descent held each year in August. Phone Northam Visitor Centre 9622 2100 for information about historic Morby Cottage, Katrine , West Northam Railway Station Museum, ballooning etc BRUCE ROCK 148 km founded 1912. Three different museums, a sculpture garden, amphitheatre with kids’ playground, toilets. Inquiries at Shire Office 9061 1377. Travel via SHACKLETON and see the “smalles t Bank in Australia” (3m x 4m) which was still in use as a bank branch in 1996. HYDEN approx 250 km via Quairading, Corrigin, Kondinin etc. See the great ancient geological feature known as Wave Rock. Also Wildflower Shop, wildlife Park, and famous internationally known Lace Collection. ENTERTAINMENT LOCAL RADIO STATION York 101.3 FM OLD TIME DANCING January to November. York Town Hall usually 4th Saturday alternate months comm. Jan 2004. Also every Wednesday Old Masonic Hall. Phone Don 9641 1229 or Lesley 9641 1229. Dates for 2004 now available. BOOTSCOOTING two groups : inquiries #1. 9643 1050 #2 “True Country” 9641 2936 visitors welcome. SQUARE DANCING Each Friday Night Contact 9646 1243 FILM SOCIETY First Wednesday each month at Balladong Farm Theatrette (Visitor Membership required) Inquiries: Kim 9255 2485 or Chris 9641 1631 SERVICES HEALTH: Medical Centre, Avon Tce. Ph. 9641 1306. Hospital. Trews Rd. Ph. 9641 1200 Ambulance (emergencies only) ph. 9641 1300 Dentist, 180 Avon Tce. Ph. 9641 2925 POLICE: Corner Avon Tce and Ford St. Ph. 9641 1400. INTERNET ACCESS. York iT, 89 Avon Tce, ph. 9641 2077; York Telecentre, Avon Tce, ph. 9641 2328. PUBLIC LIBRARY phone YORK Shire Council 9641 2233 for opening times. CAR BREAKDOWN SERVICE. (RAC.) Shell Service Station. 86 Avon Tce. Ph. 9641 1224, mob. 0408 912 133. REFLEXOLOGIST Trained reflexologist will travel to your place of accommodation for pressure massage to the feet. . Jan Griffin 9641 4082. To the best of our knowledge this information was correct at the time of printing October 2004 For more information, see www.yorktouristbureau.com.au
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