In the springtime Williamstown is seen at its best with a carpet of green grass and wildflowers along the many creeks and thick woodlands covering the low rolling hills around the town dotted with large dairy pastures and vineyards.
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Later, it became dairy pasture land, before the land was acquired by the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust in 1984 and The Garden was opened to the public in 1988 by the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson.
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Kelly's Directory of 1891 describes the village as a scattering of farmhouses and cottages in a parish of 1, 214 acres, with a population of 138, and a rateable ( taxable ) value of ?, 649 . the land he describes as " clayey, loamy and limely ", mainly dairy pasture, but reports that most of the parish lies atop a bed of Coal, and that both Limestone and Ironstone were " very abundant ".
