Hobart's most atmospheric neighbourhood, perched on a small headland directly above Salamanca. Battery Point takes its name from the gun battery built here in 1818 to defend the colony. The street pattern has barely changed since the 1850s — tight lanes of weatherboard and sandstone cottages, the unusual oval village green of Arthur Circus, and the 1836 Anglican St George's Church overlooking the river from the highest point.
The whole quarter is a slow walk of an hour or two. Start at Kelly's Steps from Salamanca, follow Hampden Road past the rows of restored cottages, double back via Runnymede and the Maritime Museum's old captain's houses, and finish at the Shipwrights Arms pub for a pint. Several of the cottages are National Trust-listed; Narryna, a Georgian merchant's mansion on Hampden Road, is open as a house museum.