Browse mixed in Avoca

Overview

Avoca is a quiet rural village of 192 people (2021 census) nestled on the banks of the South Esk River near its confluence with St Paul’s River. The settlement began in the 1830s as a farming, coal and tin‑mining hub, and today it remains a close‑knit farming community surrounded by historic stone‑cobbled streets and heritage homes such as the 1842 St Thomas Anglican Church, the mid‑1850s parish hall and the Union Hotel, also dating from 1842. The mixture of original farmsteads and more recent dwellings offers a varied, affordable housing stock set against a backdrop of river scenery and open countryside.