Dungalar Spring

Author

Shire of Woodanilling

Place Number

16916

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Location

Beaufort Station Beaufort River

Location Details

Other Name(s)

Dungarlaring Spring

Local Government

Woodanilling

Region

Great Southern

Construction Date

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
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Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

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Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	18 Mar 2003	Category 4	Category 4 Significant but not essential to an understanding of the history of the district: photographically recorded prior to any major redevelopment or demolition.

Statement of Significance

The spring is important for its association with the development of the pastoral industry in
the region and with pioneering families.

Physical Description

The spring is located on the south east of the Martup Hills. It is also spelt Dungarlaring
Spring. It is situated in a gully close (30 metres SW of) to the corner of the location
which was the first surveyed in the Shire. It is due east of the trig point on Martup Hill.
The spring is now not a reliable supply and when inspected in mid November 1999 only
had a puddle in the bottom of the silted up soak.

History

The first pastoralist to the Beaufort River was Edward Hamersley. On 31 March 1852 he
was granted a lease of 10,000 acres centred on the Martup Hills. Within this lease 15
acres surveyed to freehold Dungalar Spring (Locn V) and locations 1-4 of 10 acres apiece
near the site of the Beaufort Bridge. These were the first land selections in the Williams
district freeholded outside of the immediate vicinity of the Williams River. Hamersley
decided to concentrate his southern leases near the Williams River bridge and new
prospects in the Champion Bay area finally saw him transfer the Martup lease to William
Cornwall in 1866. Cornwall had previously taken up J.H. Monger's relinquished lease at
Queerearrup and the Martup leases. Cornwall who came to the colony as a 'young
emigrant' in 1840 when a lad of 15 years worked initially for JH Monger at York.
Having acquired both capital and experience in Monger's employ, Cornwall saw the
opportunities is the Beaufort area. In 1860 he married Eliza Malone, a young Irish
immigrant. The site of their first home at the Beaufort is not certain, but soon the grand
Beaufort Station homestead was built. By 1862 Cornwall was freeholding land within the
Martup Lease and by 1868 a total of 1040 acres amongst the Martup Hills had been
purchased by Cornwall.

The well also appears to have been known as Martup Well.

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	John Bird Round Pool to Woodanilling ps 14-18, 44, 60, 90-94, 263		1985

Place Type

Landscape

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	FARMING\PASTORAL	Other

Historic Themes

General	Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY	Exploration & surveying

Creation Date

24 Aug 2004

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

01 Jan 2017

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