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Ashburton Downs Station, often referred to as Ashburton Downs, is a pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station and presently operates as a cattle station.

It is located about Шаблон:Convert west of Paraburdoo and Шаблон:Convert south west of Tom Price in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The property occupies an area of Шаблон:Convert with a Шаблон:Convert stretch of the Ashburton River running south west through the property.[1] The station once adjoined Peake Station on its western boundary.[2] Other properties that it shares boundaries with include Kooline, Amelia, Wyloo, Rocklea, Mininer, Pingandy and Turee Creek Stations, as well as areas of vacant crown land.[1]

Established in the 1880s by a group of investors from Northam, including George Throssell,[3] by 1890 the property was struck by drought, with the flock size being reduced from 16,000 in 1890 to 5,300 the following year.[4]

In 1892 Throssell sold his interest in the property to John Frederick Hancock[3] and later the same year the property manager, Denis Bresnahan, retired from running the station.[5] Ashburton Downs occupied an area of approximately Шаблон:Convert.[3] The station was flooded in 1899 when Шаблон:Convert of rain fell in less than a month.[6] John Frederick Hancock died in 1902, aged 61.[7] The property was retained by Hancock's sons John, George and Richard, all of who had been managing the station.[3] John Fredrick Jnr was the last of the Hancock brothers to own Ashburton Station, In 1911 the property had a flock of 30,000 sheep and produced 475 bales of wool.[8]

In 1918 the property was passed from Hancock Brothers to the Ashburton Downs Station Ltd. At the time it occupied Шаблон:Convert and was stocked with 19,000 sheep and 320 horses.[9]

In 1949 the property was carrying a flock of 30,000 sheep, but by 1951, following a severe drought, shearing had to be cancelled as the stock were too weak to be droved to the shearing shed.[10]

In 1979 the property was stocked with 300 cattle. In a good season the station is able to carry a herd of approximately 5,000 head of cattle.[1]

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Шаблон:Reflist Шаблон:Stations of the Pilbara Western Australia