Railway Terrace, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
The Bon Accord Mine Complex is owned and administered by the National Trust, Burra, and is concerned with preserving, studying and exhibiting items that help in illustrating and explaining the story of the Burra area.
The display includes a working forge, a six metre by five metre model of the Burra Mine depicting traditional underground mining in 1860 and, in the old waterworks building, an or ...
Barrier Highway, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
A True Country Golf Experience, The Burra Golf Club Incorporated invites you to enjoy our 18-hole golf course with watered fairways and greens.
The Burra Golf Course is situated on the Barrier Highway, only 160 kilometres or two hours drive north of Adelaide. Set in picturesque surroundings fringed with established native trees and there is a well-placed dam.
Visitors and groups are welcom ...
Township of Burra, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
Discover and explore the historic township of Burra with the Burra Heritage Passport. The passport gives you entry to the Burra Mine including dressing tower and lookout, police lockup and stables, Redruth Gaol, Hampton, power magazine, brewery cellars, miners' dugouts and smelts paddock. The Passport also includes free entry to Burra's museums during opening times.
You'll have a step-by-step g ...
Township of Burra, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
Enjoy a self-drive tour or walk through the Burra Mine Site, a South Australian State heritage area. The open-air museum contains remains of the mining operations, recreating the exciting atmosphere of the monster mine.
Entrance to the Burra Mine Site is included in the Burra Heritage Passport, available from the Burra Visitor Information Centre, 2 Market Square, Burra (open seven days per ...
North-east of Redruth Gaol, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
This was an English style township, a private township named after an assayer at the Smelting Works, Edward Hampton. It contained 30 simple miners' cottages and a Bible Christian Chapel. Much of the stone quarried there was used in many of Burra's fine old buildings. The township was abandoned finally in 1960.
Hampton is situated just north-east of the Redruth Gaol, on a hill, overlooking the m ...
9 Market Square, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
If you want to have a look at Burra's heritage you should include a visit to the Market Square Museum, Burra's first museum, opened by the National Trust in 1966.
It is a recreation of an old style general store and family home, which operated from the 1880s. Come in and have a look at the old style shop, clothing, dining room, bedroom and kitchen. See a very old cash register and clocks. There ...
Creek Bed Adjacent to Blyth Street, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
In 1851, up to 2,000 miners and their families lived in these dugouts along the riverbed. Floods drove many people out into the homes built by the mining companies.
Wages were low, but some miners continued to live in poor conditions with the constant threat of floods and disease, rather than pay rent. By 1860, the dugouts were virtually deserted.
Entrance to the Miners' Dugouts is included ...
Burra Mine Site, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
At Morphetts Enginehouse Museum visitors will see the only known reconstructed Cornish enginehouse in the world. A guide will explain the workings of the engine and pump system used to de-water the mine. Visitors are encouraged to examine the three-storey building and information displayed. Outside visitors may walk through an underground adit and view the mineshaft. Original pumping equipment alo ...
Peacock's Chimney was created to provide an updraught to the boilers at Peacocks Engine House.
The reopening of the open cut mine in the early 1970s necessitated the destruction of Peacocks Chimney so, to the credit of many dedicated and hardworking members of the National Trust, the chimney was rebuilt in 1972 at its present location.
Johnny Green sits atop the relocated chimney. Johnny Gre ...
Corner of Ludgvan and Tregony Streets, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
Built in 1847, pre-dating Redruth Gaol, this fine complex consists of police station, stables, lockup and police residence.
The Burra Police Lockup was built because of the influx of population and the number of hotels in the town during Burra's mining boom. The cobblestone courtyard reputedly faces towards London.
In 1851, the police force in Burra comprised six men.
Entrance to the Poli ...
Burra Mine Open Air Museum, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
The Powder Magazine was erected in 1847 and is the oldest remaining mine building in Australia. It stored gunpowder used in blasting at the mine.
The building has an arched stone roof for strength and was lined with sheepskin for safety. The National Trust restored it in 1976.
Admission to Powder Magazine is included in the Burra Heritage Passport, available from the Burra Visitor Informatio ...
15 kilometres east of Burra on Eastern Road, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
Discover permanent waterholes, red earth gorges and native vegetation at Red Banks Conservation Park, just 15 kilometres east of Burra.
Palaeontologists have described Red Banks as one of richest mega fauna sites in Australia.
A diverse assemblage of fossilised mega fauna remains are conserved within the park. Follow the Landscape of Change interpretive walk to learn about the landscapes as ...
Tregony Street, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
1856 gaol, used in the South Australian Film Corporation film, "Breaker Morant".
The gaol was closed in 1894 and later used as a girls' reformatory. It features displays depicting the life and living conditions of prisoners and reformatory inmates.
Entrance to the Redruth Gaol is included in the Burra Heritage Passport, available from the Burra Visitor Information Centre, 2 Market Square, Bu ...
John Barker Street off Barrier Highway, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
For Tony and Susan Thorogood, making superb apple wine has become a brilliant obsession and has seen them become leaders in the field of boutique hand made ciders, apple wines, apple liqueurs and apple beer. For each golden glass there is a story - one Tony and Susan are happy to share with visitors to their cellar door. Their organic and chemical free orchard was established in the heritage minin ...
Bridge Terrace, Burra, South Australia 5417, Australia
The Unicorn Brewery was built in 1873 and consisted of a tall malting tower, offices, cooper's workshop, steam engine and boiler to operate the pumps, and manager's residence.
The cellars were excavated and completed in 1873. Due to new licensing laws, introduced at the turn of the century, the Brewery closed in 1902 and the buildings demolished for their stone in 1911.
The cellars, storeroo ...
