Burra Attractions
Bon Accord Mine Complex
The Bon Accord Mine Complex is owned and administered by the National Trust, Burra, and is concerned with preserving, studying and exhibiting items that help in illustrating and explaining the story of the Burra area. The display includes a working f ...
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Burra Golf Club
A True Country Golf Experience. The Burra Golf Club Incorporated invites you to enjoy our 18-hole golf course with watered fairways and greens. The Burra Golf Course is situated on the Barrier Highway, only 160 kilometres or two hours drive north of ...
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Burra Heritage Passport
Discover and explore the historic township of Burra with the Burra Heritage Passport. The passport gives you entry to the Burra Mine including dressing tower and lookout, police lockup and stables, Redruth Gaol, Hampton, power magazine, brewery cella ...
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Burra Mine Site
Enjoy a self-drive tour or walk through the Burra Mine Site, a South Australian State heritage area. The open-air museum contains remains of the mining operations, recreating the exciting atmosphere of the monster mine. Entrance to the Burra Mine Sit ...
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Gaslight Collectables And Old Books
Gaslight Collectables And Old Books is located in Burra's historic Market Square, the starting point of the award winning Burra Heritage Passport. Whilst browsing through three rooms of quality antiques, collectables and a wide range of second hand b ...
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Hampton
This was an English style township, a private township named after an assayer at the Smelting Works, Edward Hampton. It contained 30 simple miners' cottages and a Bible Christian Chapel. Much of the stone quarried there was used in many of Burra's fi ...
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Market Square Museum
If you want to have a look at Burra's heritage you should include a visit to the Market Square Museum, Burra's first museum, opened by the National Trust in 1966. It is a recreation of an old style general store and family home, which operated from t ...
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Miners Dugouts
In 1851, up to 2,000 miners and their families lived in these dugouts along the riverbed. Floods drove many people out into the homes built by the mining companies. Wages were low, but some miners continued to live in poor conditions with the constan ...
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Morphetts Enginehouse Museum
At Morphetts Enginehouse Museum visitors will see the only known reconstructed Cornish enginehouse in the world. A guide will explain the workings of the engine and pump system used to de-water the mine. Visitors are encouraged to examine the three-s ...
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Peacocks Chimney Stack
Peacock’s Chimney was created to provide an updraught to the boilers at Peacocks Engine House. The reopening of the open cut mine in the early 1970s necessitated the destruction of Peacocks Chimney so, to the credit of many dedicated and hardworkin ...
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Police Lockup And Stables
Built in 1847, pre-dating Redruth Gaol, this fine complex consists of police station, stables, lockup and police residence. The Burra Police Lockup was built because of the influx of population and the number of hotels in the town during Burra's mini ...
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Powder Magazine
The Powder Magazine was erected in 1847 and is the oldest remaining mine building in Australia. It stored gunpowder used in blasting at the mine. The building has an arched stone roof for strength and was lined with sheepskin for safety. The Nation ...
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Red Banks Conservation Park
Discover permanent waterholes, red earth gorges and native vegetation at Red Banks Conservation Park, just 15 kilometres east of Burra. Palaeontologists have described Red Banks as one of richest mega fauna sites in Australia. A diverse assemblage o ...
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Thorogoods Apple Wines
For Tony and Susan Thorogood, making superb apple wine has become a brilliant obsession and has seen them become leaders in the field of boutique hand made ciders, apple wines, apple liqueurs and apple beer. For each golden glass there is a story – ...
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Unicorn Brewery Cellars
The Unicorn Brewery was built in 1873 and consisted of a tall malting tower, offices, cooper's workshop, steam engine and boiler to operate the pumps, and manager's residence. The cellars were excavated and completed in 1873. Due to new licensing la ...
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