Sandfly is a suburb in the Kingborough Council local government area in Tasmania, Australia.

Its economy was built on the growing of small fruits, apples and pears like the nearby Huon Valley.

[3] Sandfly Methodist Church's foundation was laid in 1897 but delayed the same year due to the 1897 Tasmanian bushfires.

This company had been founded in the 1870s by James Hurst, a wealthy landowner but the early mining operations were small scale.

The State Government purchased Sandfly Tramway in 1916 and began leasing it to Kingborough Council in 1917.

[3] In 1917 a syndicate reopened the mines after a strike cut coal supply from the mainland, but it again stopped in 1919.

The Fogarty family began small scale mining again in 1937, which continued until 1971 when it closed for good.

Paid for by a baby competition organised by the local schoolteacher, Sandfly Recreation Ground Pavilion was built in 1925 (now the Longley Cricket Club Rooms).

The current church was built using the combined resources of the local Methodist, Anglican and Roman Catholic congregations, in 1969.