Hainsworth Hut

Known as Hainsworth Hut or Landrover Hut.

Location

Hainsworth is located on the plain to the west of Tantangara Dam. Grid Reference is 448509 on the Rules Point 1:25,000 map.

Brief History

Hainsworth is a simple tin hut built by Hainsworth and Corkhill for grazing in 1951. The Corkhill family remain very well known in Canberra.

The hut is famous for its “eye-brow” window latches, which readily identify it, in any photograph.

Construction

It consists of two rooms with a roof and walls of iron and a wooden floor. There are three shuttered windows.

Reference

  1. KHA number 1208,

  2. KNP POM Schedule L.69.

GPS: S 35.671093 E 148.601296

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