196 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm. #0819 Tambellup (W.A. : Shire) — History. (Prev ownership on prelim.)
The townsite of Tambellup is located in Western Australia’s Great Southern Agricultural region, 317 km south-east of Perth on the Great Southern Highway where it crosses the Gordon River. It is 23 km south of Broomehill.
The area around Tambellup was first settled by pastoralists in the late 1840s, and in 1849 the Surveyor General, John Septimus Roe, when passing through the area, referred to Morrison’s south west station at Tambul-yillup”. The area was later settled by the Norrish family