[1] Situated in central Tasmania on the River Clyde in a broad valley, it is notable for hunting and being a lake district.

"[3]For many thousands of years before European colonisation, the Bothwell area was the home of the Mairremmener people, who migrated seasonally between the mountains and the coast.

[5] Bothwell traces its formal founding to 1822,[6] when several families of Scottish origin settled in the area that was to become the town.

It was laid out in 1824 by surveyor Thomas Scott,[3] with a more detailed plan designed in 1837 allocating space for a market place, school, police, magistrate and parsonage.

It faces east and is prominently located on Market Place adjacent to Queen's Square, at the end of Alexander Street.

The newly opened links at Ratho were reported in The Tasmanian Mail in August 1911: "Mr and Mrs. Reid gave a golf afternoon on the newly laid-out Ratho links, at Bothwell, on Saturday, when a handicap mixed foursomes for trophies given by the host and hostess was played...

[24]Golf in Australia started at Grose Farm in Sydney, with the first reliably documented match played in 1839 by A.B.

[28] Bothwell features several distinctive styles of architecture, including Georgian, Queen Anne Revival and Victorian.

[29] The house was further added to by Major Charles Schaw, an assistant police magistrate in Bothwell, at a cost of £4000.

[30] The citation in the Australian Register of the National Estate describes Wentworth as:"A very unusual two storey Georgian house... Main north facade has off-centre portico with grouped casement windows flanked by pilasters to one side and a single window at level two to the other side.

The east facade is possibly the most attractive, with three pairs of French doors with bracketed cornice and heavy 3 dormer window (with pilasters) above the eaves line.

[32] It has a square, Norman style tower with a castellated parapet, lancet windows and a Gothic doorway which was restored by the National Trust in 1968.

If they are pagan it is amusing to note that Governor Arthur upon inspecting the church ordered the architect, John Lee Archer, to change the rounded windows because they were 'unchristian'.

[33] In 2007 a significant restoration and conversion to a whiskey distillery were undertaken by noted Tasmanian architectural firm Circa Morris-Nunn.