BATESFORD FLOUR MILL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
BATESFORD QUARRY, 240 FYANSFORD-GHERINGHAP RD, FYANSFORD VIC 3218
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Statement of Significance
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BATESFORD FLOUR MILL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE - History
Dr. Robert Culbertson Hope, (1812-1878), MD, MLC was born at Templehall, Morebattle, near Kelso, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders in an old Roxburghshire landed family. He was son of Robert Hope, landowner, and Joan, nee Culbertson. He studied medicine, surgery and midwifery and won a prize in surgery at the University of Edinburgh (M.D., 1834). He then worked as an assistant to John Douglas at Hawick in Roxburghshire. On 18 April 1838 he sailed from Leith as surgeon in the Lady Kennaway and arrived in Sydney on 12 August. He practised medicine in Campbelltown for eight years and in 1847, overlanded to the Port Phillip District to join his brothers George and James where he practised medicine at Geelong. He established the Darriwill grazing property and with his brother Robert, built the Carrah flour-mill at Batesford on the Moorabool River and another on the Barwon River near Inverleigh. The brothers represented landed gentry, Robert being elected to the Legislative Council and represented the men of property against selectors. Dr Robert Culbertson Hope (1812-1878) was from on old, landed family from Roxburghshire in the Scottish border region. Hope studied medicine, surgery and midwifery and won a prize in surgery at the University of Edinburgh (M.D., 1834). Travelling as ship's surgeon on Lady Kennaway, he emigrated to Sydney in August 1838 and in 1847 he joined his brothers George and James who held grazing leases in the Port Phillip District. Robert and George took up land at Batesford, near Geelong, where Robert built Lynnburn and George built Darriwill. They erected a water and steam powered flour-mill at Batesford on the Moorabool River 1857. In 1868 it was described as being powered by both a large water wheel and large steam engine, with steam being required only for the four driest months of the year. It had three pairs of stones smutter, silk dressing machine and elevator. In 1866-7 the mill was run by the Shaw Brothers. Floods on the Barwon undermined the foundation of the mill and resulted in it being demolished around 1880.BATESFORD FLOUR MILL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE - Interpretation of Site
The mill site, water wheel pit, head race, tail race and chimney are all evident, along with scattered small artefacts and the site of the miller's cottage. Fragments of slate indicate the roofing material, while shell lime mortar, shaped bluestone and hand made bricks are scattered around indicating the structural material of the buildings. These are most likely to date from the mid 1850s, and the building was demolished in 1880, after damaging floods, possibly the 1870 super flood.
Heritage Inventory Description
BATESFORD FLOUR MILL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE - Heritage Inventory Description
Batesford Flour Mill comprises the ruins of a former three storey bluestone structure measuring about 10 x 12 metres built into south bank of Moorabool River. There are standing masonry walls to 1 metre, masonry water wall and bolts from the water wheel, chimney base and flue, other wall remnants from mill building, water race extending 325 metres to west where remnants of masonry Dam on Moorabool River survive. Slate, glass, ceramics and metal artefacts scattered around mill site. Site of millers cottage 20m west of mill.
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