Ashburton Downs
Coordinates: 23°23′07″S 117°01′57″E / 23.38536°S 117.03239°E
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 68 kilometres (42 mi) west of Paraburdoo and 109 kilometres (68 mi) south west of Tom Price in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The property occupies an area of 3,005 square kilometres (1,160 sq mi) with 75 kilometres (47 mi) stretch of the Ashburton River running south west through the property. The station once adjoined Peake Station on its western boundary. 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.
Established in the 1880s by a group of investors from Northam including George Throssell 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.
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