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Youndegin

Farmstay Country

About Youndegin

Visit the ruins of the early settlement of Youndegin, 19 kilometres south of Cunderdin. Walk through the old police outpost, which was built in 1865, from stone and mud with a thatched roof, the outpost’s answer to the modern-day ‘lock-up’ was a nearby York Gum. Constable Allerly was the first police officer in charge of the post and the building represented the first settlement in the area. It was the death of an early settler, E.J. Clarkson at the hands of Traditional Owners that originally led to the establishment of the police outpost. In 1880 Constable Alfred Eaton arrived to take over its running and he and his eventual wife, Mary later made the building their home. Constable Eaton was quite the entrepreneur and during the gold rush of 1888 saw an opportunity to make the most of t ...