It is based on an estate, which was established in 1840 by retired British army officer Captain James Reid. Reid named the 2000-ha property 'Tichin-Gorourke' (meaning 'voice of the frogs'), after the local Aboriginal name for what is now called Balcombe Creek. Alexander Balcombe who renamed it ‘The Briars’ after his old family home on St Helena took it over in 1846. Balcombe built the earliest section of the ... (more)