Hadspen is a town on the South Esk River in the north of Tasmania, Australia, 8 kilometres south west of Launceston. Hadspen has few c…Hadspen is a town on the South Esk River in the north of Tasmania, Australia, 8 kilometres south west of Launceston. Hadspen has few commercial establishments and is primarily a residential suburb of nearby Launceston. Most of the town's buildings are residential, and relatively recent. The town's population of just over 2000 has grown rapidly from only a few hundred in the 1960s, and there are development plans that call for its doubling.