- Cairns Region Acreage Specialists -

We specialise in acreage land and house sales in the Goldsborough Valley (35  min from the Cairns CBD) in a cost-effective and personalised manner.

We are also the developer appointed agent for the sale of Goldsborough Valley Estates.

It’s all here—a treasure of natural beauty awaits you…

A delightful variety of sites that allow you to virtually disappear from the rest of the world—into your own piece of paradise: delightful streams; rainforested hillsides, enchanted valleys; rolling hills or soaring vantage points.

All this just half an hour or so from the heart of Cairns.

High on a hill...or tucked into a valley:

At Goldsborough Valley you do have the chance of finding that piece of the country that you can fall in love with.  There is something individualy about every part of this magnificent estate.

• Blocks at least 4000m2 

• Underground power and telephone

• Sealed bitumen roads

• Close to schools, shopping, library and sporting facilities

Travel south from Cairns about 20 minutes  on the Bruce Hwy to Gordonvale turn right on to the Gillies Hwy for 5 min, turn left at Peete’s Bridge and follow the signs to the Mineshaft St, Goldsborough Valley Real Estate Sales Office. We are generally on site 11.00am to 4.00pm Saturday and Sunday, but please phone Tim Bratty on 0414 354 648 to confirm.

Area Map with interactive directions(Right Click to open in a new tab)

A 2 min drive to the peaceful Mulgrave River for cool fresh water swimming, canoeing or try your luck at panning for a little gold, (the area had a mini gold rush in the late 1800’s as the name suggests).

A short drive up Goldsborough Valley road is the Wooroonooran National Park with many walking tracks and stunning scenery. http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/park/index.cgi?parkid=214

Ten minutes away is the township of Gordonvale with a modern Supermarket, Hospital, Ambulance, schools (State Primary and High Schools and St Michaels Primary) and Golf Club.

The Mulgrave Goldfield (Goldsborough)

In 1879 some of those busy gold prospectors were looking around the creeks and gullies that fed into the Mulgrave River, south of Cairns. They found some gold and Cairns business people gave them money so they could have a proper look.

Christy Palmerston, Joss and Toohey found good alluvial gold near Toohey Creek. In a few weeks there were 140 men digging the ground. The Mulgrave Goldfield was declared on 1 July 1880.

It was good news for Cairns. Port Douglas had just been established and was stealing all of the trade away from Cairns.

Everyone had high hopes because by 1880 there were lots of quartz reefs found. It was a difficult place for mining, though. The quartz reefs were scattered up a steep ridge and rainforest covered most of the ground. A waterwheel battery called the Pioneer Mill was built in 1885 by the Cairns Crushing Company. Miners lived in two little townships, Top Camp up on the ridge where the battery was, and Lower Camp which was named Fanning Town and later, Goldsborough. A battery was built near Goldsborough, too. By 1886 the field had produced nearly 4000 ounces of gold.

The trouble with an alluvial gold rush is that it's soon over. The 140 miners in 1879 declined to 37 in 1885, not counting the two women and three children. The quartz reefs kept some miners and fossickers busy for a while longer but Goldsborough never became the boom gold field that Cairns had hoped for.

-Exert from narrative by BobupNorth2

Goldsborough Valley Estates

After the gold petered out agriculture took over with cattle and cane. The first works for Goldsborough Valley Estates began in 1996 in response to demand for acreage close to city, but with a rural lifestyle. Peets Bridge was upgraded in 1988 to resist all but 4 or so floods a year. The estate has steadly released land to this day with about 160 houses built or under construction by mid 2007. The area has recently shown excellent capital growth and more land releases to come.