 The town is set in a rural landscape; Surrounding countryside contains valleys, river flood plains, remnant uncleared bush and undulating pastures.The majority of the town lies between the South Esk, and a low section of land east of the town called Beams Hollow, which is named after Thomas Beams, owner of a lot through which the road from Launceston first ran.As of 1831 there was a settlement named Hadspen near a ford of the South Esk River.