Copping, Tasmania

Copping is a small township and agricultural district in the south-east of Tasmania between Dunalley and Sorell. Part of the Bream Creek district, it was named after Captain Richard Copping, who purchased a property here from George Moore in 1860 upon which he settled three of his half-brothers as tenant farmers. Captain Copping established his own property Rochford Hall nearby at Kellevie.

Copping gained some notoriety when it was revealed that Martin Bryant lived there for a number of years in the 1980s.^[1].

References

1. ^ Martin Bryant

• • Walker, Ian (2006). Tall Ships and Cannibals - The Story of Captain Richard Copping of Hobart Town (2006 ed.). Hobart, Tasmania: Navarine Publishing. 

Coordinates: 42°49′S 147°48′E / 42.817°S 147.8°E / -42.817; 147.8