Ilfracombe is currently a 2-star accredited Queensland Tidy Town. You can tell us what you think by voting in the poll. History and Geography The townsites of Ilfracombe and Longreach were amongst resumed portions of Wellshot Station. In 1892, Wellshot was known as the biggest sheep station in the world, not because of the area it occupied but because of the number of sheep it ran; 460,000. 40,000 two-year-old wethers were sold off from the property later the same year. On 1