page_title: Chudleigh, Tasmania
section_title: Present
hierarchical_section_title: Chudleigh, Tasmania / Present
caption_attribution_description: Falls on Lobster Rivulet, near Chudleigh, Tasmania, Australia
context_page_description: Chudleigh is a small rural village 64 kilometres west of Launceston in northern Tasmania, Australia. The town is in the Chudleigh Valley, between the Gog range and the Great Western Tiers. The area is primarily used for farming, though timber and lime production have been significant industries. The fertile flats of the valley are of alluvial origin, from the Permian era. The Chudleigh show, run by the Agricultural and Horticultural society, is an agricultural show held each February. Since 1889 the show has been held 125 times, and it is one of the state's oldest such events.
  The area had been the lands of the Pallittorre Aboriginal Tasmanians for thousands of years. European settlement and disease drove them from the lands and decimated their population. Chudleigh was first settled by Europeans in the 1830s for agriculture and lime production. The town was laid out, probably prior to 1835, to have up to 5000 residents though the population never became large. An early resident, John Badcock Gardiner, named Chudleigh, probably after Chudleigh in Devon, England.
context_section_description: Chudleigh serves as a service centre for the surrounding area, whose main industries involve farming and timber. The town has few services. There is a shop producing and selling honey related products, a service station, general store, second-hand book store and a shop selling gifts and home wares related to roses. There are a large number of roses planted in the main street as part of a beautification drive, begun in 2001, to make the town a "village of roses".
  There are some historic buildings, with connection to the town's early history. Bentley house's landscape is on the Tasmanian Heritage Register and the house itself is registered by the Tasmanian Heritage Council.
  Cattle were farmed on the land from at least 1827 and the house was finished in 1879, at which time the property was owned by Donald Norman Cameron, later member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. At the south-east corner of the town, on the main road, is a restored building that was made for the Van Diemen's Land company in 1827–8 as a grain store. A sign commemorates acrimony around its restoration or remodelling, stating "Building restored November 2003. Despite the best efforts of The National Trust and Mrs Patrica Woods.". Patrica Woods was as the time president of the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania). The main street has a surveyor's cottage that was  built around 1840
  The Chudleigh show, run by the Agricultural and Horticultural society, is held each February. It is one of the state's oldest agricultural shows; in 2015 the 126th show was held. Melita honey farm runs a shop on the main street that sells a wide variety of honey related  products. Mole Creek Karst National Park is nearby. Caves in the park thread through the limestone that underlies the area around Chudleigh. Nearby the town is the 130-hectare (320-acre) Lobster Rivulet Forest Reserve, which contains a series of scenic waterfalls. Trowunna Wildlife Park is a 65-acre (26 ha) private sanctuary a short distance on the main road towards Mole Creek. The park contains native Australian animals both in enclosures and free-ranging. It works as part of the effort to preserve Tasmanian devils by keeping a population that are free of facial tumour disease, and runs as a training centre for animal handling and animal keeping.
  Chudleigh is in the Meander Valley Council local government area, the Division of Lyons—for the state house of assembly and the federal house of representatives— and the state legislative council electoral division of Western Tiers.
caption: Waterfall on Lobster Rivulet
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