Cockle Creek Cemetery in Tasmania - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Get directions Cockle Creek Road, Recherche
Huon Valley Council, Tasmania, Australia

Coordinates: -43.58146, 146.88898
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Located on Recherche Bay some 148km south-west of Hobart, the settlement of Cockle Creek was abandoned some years ago and the cemetery has fallen into neglect, with some of the headstones broken and others no longer legible.

This area was originally set aside in the 1850s as a school reserve for the rapidly growing town of Ramsgate. At its peak there were almost 300 people living here and an extensive town plan had been drawn up, naming the streets.

Despite high hopes the planned township did not materialise and the original cemetery at Planters Beach was abandoned when people started burying their dead here at Cockle Creek.

This cemetery contains 12 marked graves and at least another 10 which have lost their markers. The earliest identifiable burials date from the early 1880s, with the latest from the 1930s.

Despite high hopes the planned township did not materialise and the original cemetery at Planters Beach was abandoned when people started burying their dead here at Cockle Creek.

This cemetery contains 12 marked graves and at least another 10 which have lost their markers. The earliest identifiable burials date from the early 1880s, with the latest from the 1930s.