- Type
- Self-guided heritage walk with brochure
- Suitable for
- Walking, Get to by public transport
- Easy
- Terrain
- Flat
- Region
- Yorke Peninsula
- Download maps & GPS files
- 1 map PDF
- 1 website link
- Photos
- 5 photosJump to Photos section
- Travel options
- Bus
- Car
About the Historical walk
Explore the historic town of Port Wakefield, first established in 1850 to service the mining town of Burra. The self-guided historical walk has a map and brochure, with interpretive signs along the way.
The walk is known as Port Wakefield Historical Walk, and also the the Culture & Heritage Trail.
Port Wakefield is named after Edward Gibbon Wakefield who devised the system of colonisation used in the early settlement of South Australia. Originally known as Port Henry it was used as a port for copper ore from Burra Burra. The town of Wakefield was established next to the port in 1850 and Port Henry subsequently adopted the name Port Wakefield.
Photos
There are interpretive signs for the Port Wakefield Historical Walk, also know as the Culture & Heritage Trail
The former railway refreshment room in Port Wakefield provided food and drinks for train travellers and workers
There are interpretive signs for the Port Wakefield Historical Walk, also know as the Culture & Heritage Trail
The salt water swimming area at Port Wakefield. For many years it was a tidal pool, until 1930 when the sluice was built. Drawn Fraser swam here in her early years (1949)
Monument to Matthew Flinders, the commander of H.M. Sloop 'Investigator' which reached the head of the Gulf St Vincent in 1802. The memorial is located beside the Salt Water Swimming Area.