Battery Point was settled in the earliest days of Hobart Town in the early 1800’s, and has retained the winding streets, colonial architecture and historical ambiance that make it one of the most fascinating historic precincts in all of Australia.
Built over a point of land jutting into the Derwent River, it has become one of the most fashionable suburbs of Hobart, all the while keeping its historical links with Hobart and Tasmania’s past.
This walk takes us up laneways, past old seafarers’ cottages and through an historic precinct in which the outside of the buildings and the streetscape is largely unchanged since it was built in the 1800’s and early 1900’s.
Start off at Kelly’s Steps on Salamanca Place, and then wind your way through some of the most interesting parts of Old Battery Point. You will visit an old seafarers hotel, walk the narrow winding streets and finish at Princes Park, back near your starting point.
This narrow flight of steps joins Salamanca Place to Kelly Street in Battery Point and was named after 1800’s sea captain James Kelly.
Between Kelly’s Steps and Hampden Road, Arthur Circus is a circle of old, single frontage cottages dating from the earliest days of Old Hobart Town.
Originally a part of Hobart’s coastal defences as established in the early 1800’s, the Prince of Wales Battery was housed on this site. It gave a commanding view of the Derwent River near to the city. It overlooks what is today the finish line for the 
