Deloraine is a large country town on the Bass Highway some 48 Km west of Launceston - a town
that has been described as the "scenic centre of the north".
Deloraine spreads on both sides of the Meander River.
HISTORY
A very historic town, it was
named by Surveyor Scott after Sir William Deloraine in a poem by Sir Walter
Scott "Lay of the Last Minstrel".
Deloraine was built beside a convict village named
"Alveston", gradually the two places merged.
The first train in Tasmania ran between Launceston and Deloraine
in 1871.
