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Deddington is a town near Evandale in Tasmania, Australia. The town is situated on the Nile River and lies in the foothills of Ben Lomond. == History == The first inhabitants of the Deddington area were Tasmanian Aborigines (Palawa) and the land around Deddington was country belonging to the Ben Lomond Nation. Aboriginal artifacts indicating land use (hunting) and seasonal camps have been found along the Nile River and Patterdale Creek. It is uncertain which clans had specific use of the area but the Plindermairhemener clan is referred to as occupying the western South Esk region. The Palawa name for the Deddington locality, specifically the 'Nile River at Deddington,' was weetacenner (wee.tac.en.ner). It is likely that the Deddington area was a hunting ground as well as part of the seasonal migratory route for both the Ben Lomond Nation clans and also clans from the North Midlands Nation who visited the Ben Lomond plateau in summer.〔 Settlers were granted land around the site of the current town in the second and third decades of the 1800s. James Cox was granted land at Nile, Anthony Cottrell to the North at Gordons Plains, and Massey was granted land to the south. It is likely that stockeepers and timber-cutters moved in advance of settlers to the fringes of the Ben Lomond escarpment and up the South Esk Valley. Stockeepers both negotiated with and came into conflict with the members of the Ben Lomond and North Midlands Nations as they migrated and hunted over the Deddington area. As settlement encroached further up the South Esk valley during the 1820s the area became contested ground and there are several records of members of the Ben Lomond and North Midlands Nations spearing workers in the Deddington region until late in the Black War. John Batman and Anthony Cottrell were both involved in Roving Parties, essentially bounty hunters contracted to 'conciliate' aboriginal tribespeople. John Batman, in particular, made numerous forays from his home at Kingston, near Deddington, following the aboriginal clans up the South Esk Valley to the South and East of Ben Lomond. John Batman describes in his letters of July 1830 how he had dispatched women of the Ben Lomond Nation along tracks around their 'usual haunts' around Stacks Bluff and to Pigeons Plains -the Nile Valley near Lilyburn Bridge, north of Deddington.〔 By the 1840s the remnant peoples of the Ben Lomond nation had long been exiled to Flinders Island and there was sufficient settler population in the Deddington area for a chapel to be constructed above the Nile River. Local legend has it that the artist John Glover built the chapel but it is likely that the chapel was erected by the land donor and Rev. Russell from Evandale.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.deddington.org.uk/tasmania/nilechapel )〕 John Glover is buried in the cemetery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~society@iinet.net.au/nile_chapel.htm )〕 Services for the emerging town and rural area were instituted from the 1860s when the town area was circumscribed. Deddington Post Office opened on 1 December 1862 and closed in 1970. A school opened in Deddington in early 1865, at the chapel, at the urging of Rev. Russell and the first teacher employed at 50 pounds a year. By mid 1866 land had been set aside for police barracks and a constable was permanently stationed in the town. Perhaps coincidentally the Deddington Inn was licensed in December of the same year. By 1980 the town centre had declined with the post office, school and shop long closed. The Deddington Inn burnt down in 1980 and now the town, and rural area, is serviced by the nearby town of Evandale.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Deddington UK )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deddington, Tasmania」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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