The Tally-Ho Hotel, Clarendon

Clarendon's first hotel stood on the bank of the Onkaparinga, its back door a few paces from the only ford in the valley. When the river flooded, travellers sheltered under its thatched roof and waited.

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Clarendon Bridge

In 1858 a young woman broke a champagne bottle against the new timber bridge at Clarendon, naming it for the village below. The ford it replaced had tested every cart and carrier on the road south for twenty years. Sixty years later the timber was rotting — the ford pressed into service one last time before a concrete arch took its…

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