Pyrenees Highway
ELPHINSTONE VIC 3448 - Property No L10138
-
Add to tour
You must log in to do that.
-
Share
-
Shortlist place
You must log in to do that.
- Download report
Statement of Significance
This main road climbs up from Forest Creek to Wesley Hill with its cluster of early buildings, then zig-zags into Chewton, where it follows the contour and displays a group of Classified public buildings and a string of simple brick cottages before crossing Lawson's Bridge and climbing up a broad ridge to Elphinstone.
The road is bordered by Long-leaf Box (E.goniocalyx) and Yellow Gum (E.leucoxylon) in a dense association along the rural stretches of the road. Exciting glimpses of the railway tunnel, bridges and embankments are also obtained.
The constantly curving roadway displays the landscape to advantage, and the interest of the journey is heightened by views which open and close.
This is a cultural landscape with a number of historic associations. The roadway, once a bullock wagon track, rolls and curves with the contours of the land.
-
-
-
-
STONE AND BRICK RUINVictorian Heritage Inventory
-
THREE HUT BASES AND CHIMNEY REMAINSVictorian Heritage Inventory
-
Pyrenees HighwayNational Trust
-
-