It is a fair bet that when Tom Dennis’s great-great-great grandfather took up his pastoral selection in Victoria’s Western District in 1840 he initially lived in a tiny hand-built house.
There’s no sign of it now: the former 4000 ha [15.5 square miles] Tarndwarncoort estate where the famed Polwarth sheep was bred, and where the Dennis family still lives, near Birregurra, has at its heart a magnificent bluestone mansion dating back to Cornish ancestor Alexander’s later years…
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