York, Australia Tourism

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labor, it failed to make headway. It was only in the 1850s, when convict labor was brought in, that roads were built and agricultural produce could be brought to York for sale. The town also developed as a gold-mining center after the discovery of gold in the Yilgarn district. When the railroad was built through Northam, to the north of York, further development passed the town by and it remained a quiet little 19th C. town preserved almost intact down to the present.

The rural setting of the Avon valley and the old houses of the pioneering period and the town's Victorian heyday make York a kind of open-air museum. The National Trust has classified it as a Historic Town, and local people have made great efforts to preserve the old buildings.