Castra
- Local Government Area
- Central Coast (Tas.)
- Postcode
- 7315
- Population
- 41
- Area
- 15.48 km²
- Coordinates
- -41.3017, 146.1147
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Castra
Castra is a rural locality in the Central Coast Council area of north-west Tasmania, about 19 km south of Ulverstone. It was settled from the 1860s under the Castra Scheme, an initiative of retired British Indian Army officer Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Crawford that offered small farms to fellow Anglo-Indian officers; the name comes from the Latin for 'camp'. Today the locality is a scattered farming district, with the Castra Falls walking circuit passing a series of waterfalls along the Castra Rivulet.
Nearby localities
- Upper Castra 4 km
- Preston (Tas.) 4 km
- Sprent 5 km
- Gunns Plains 8 km
- South Preston 9 km
- Lower Wilmot 9 km