 During the early 1820s the Van Diemen 's Land Company created a track or stock route from Deloraine to Emu Bay ( now Burnie ) that ran via Chudleigh and Mole Creek . The route enabled them to move grazing livestock from the higher rainfall areas in the west of Tasmania , to the population centres further east . The company built facilities , including a store , in Chudleigh . Europeans settled the area west of Deloraine from the early 1800s , and cattle were being grazed — illegally — in the Chudleigh area from as early as 1823 . John Badcock Gardiner , who probably named Chudleigh after the village with the same name in Devon , England , was granted 850 acres ( 340 ha ) in the area after arriving in Tasmania in 1829 with his family . The town 's area was first granted to Lieutenant Travers Hartley Vaughan in 1830 . Vaughan sold the land in 1837 to Henry Reid , who was later briefly a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council . 
