Travelling south, Jericho is a detour off the Heritage Highway just beyond Oatlands. Here you will find rare remains of a probation station which housed over 200 convicts.
The paddocks to the left of the station were originally known as 'Fourteen Tree Plain' which was the site of the first horse race in Tasmania in April 1826.
Old Jericho Road, one of the few surviving examples of the convict built road of the 1830s, still has some interesting convict constructions including stone walls, a bridge and some culverts.
The cemetery has a memorial to Col. John Hutton Bisdee, the first Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross.
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