ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING AND CARLTON GARDENS (WORLD HERITAGE PLACE)

NICHOLSON STREET CARLTON and VICTORIA STREET and RATHDOWNE STREET and CARLTON STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

The Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton Gardens were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 1 July 2004 The site was inscribed under Criterion (ii) of the Operational Guidelines…

MURNDAL

1356 MURNDAL ROAD TAHARA, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Murndal is at the heart of a pastoral run formerly known as Spring Valley, which was initially part of a larger squatting run called Tahara. Tahara was held in the 1840s under two licences…

OVERNEWTON

51 OVERNEWTON ROAD KEILOR, BRIMBANK CITY

Overnewton, located in Keilor, comprises the original homestead built in 1849 with substantial additions made in 1859, and associated outbuildings and structures including the butchery and…

MORANGHURK

3320 MIDLAND HIGHWAY LETHBRIDGE, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

Moranghurk is the remains of a large pastoral property originally called Morangourke, located on the Moorabool River near Lethbridge. The first squatters to occupy the run were the partners…

HABBIES HOWE HOMESTEAD

65, 110 & 135 DROPMORE ROAD HIGHLANDS, MITCHELL SHIRE

Habbies Howe pastoral run, originally known as Kobyboyn, was established by pastoralist George Taylor in 1841. Gideon Stewart, who acquired the run in c1843, was from Scotland. The later…

WERRIBEE PARK

320 K ROAD WERRIBEE SOUTH, WYNDHAM CITY

Werribee Park is set on approximately 1,000 acres of land 35 kilometres southwest of Melbourne. The area includes the Werribee Mansion (1873) with formal garden, grotto, mansion gates and…

BICKLEIGH VALE

5-27 BICKLEIGH VALE ROAD and 2-28 BICKLEIGH VALE ROAD and 112-142 CARDIGAN ROAD and 9-23 PINE ROAD and 80-106 PEMBROKE ROAD and 1-9 EDNA WALLING LANE and 2 EDNA WALLING LANE MOOROOLBARK, Yarra Ranges Shire

Bickleigh Vale is a landscaped village of approximately 10ha created in the 1920s by leading Australian landscape gardener and designer Edna Walling (1895-1973). Bickleigh Vale was developed…

HAMILTON BOTANIC GARDENS

KENNEDY STREET and MARTIN STREET and FRENCH STREET and THOMPSON STREET HAMILTON, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

The Hamilton Botanic Gardens are one of the earliest regional botanic gardens in Victoria. Hamilton was first surveyed in 1850 with land set aside for a public garden in 1853, and was…

WARRNAMBOOL BOTANIC GARDENS

6-34 COCKMAN STREET WARRNAMBOOL, WARRNAMBOOL CITY

The township of Warrnambool was constituted a municipality in December 1855 and in 1858 successfully applied for a grant of £500 towards the formation of a botanical garden. A site of…

BURNLEY GARDENS

500 AND 500A YARRA BOULEVARD BURNLEY, YARRA CITY

The Victorian Horticultural Society was formed in 1848 with Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe as patron. The committee and members were drawn from the highest echelons of Melbourne…

WHITE HILLS BOTANIC GARDENS

559 NAPIER STREET WHITE HILLS, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

A Reserve for a Botanic Garden is shown on an 1854 plan of the township of White Hills. The garden was formed around the Bendigo Creek which was later straightened to form an ornamental…

PRINCE'S PARK

PARK STREET MARYBOROUGH, Central Goldfields Shire

The Prince's Park recreation reserve is a flat, low-lying site of approximately 25.6 hectares (64 acres) bounded by Park Road, Holyrood Street, Burns Street and Earl Street. The 7 hectare…

HEPBURN MINERAL SPRINGS RESERVE

MINERAL SPRINGS RESERVE ROAD HEPBURN SPRINGS, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve is approximately 30 hectares of public land adjacent to Hepburn Springs township that includes the Hepburn Mineral Springs bathhouse. The reserve, which…

EASTERN PARK & GEELONG BOTANIC GARDENS

1-55 GARDEN STREET EAST GEELONG, Greater Geelong City

Eastern Park at Limeburners Point Geelong is approximately 90 hectares of public parkland used for recreational, botanical and horticultural activities and includes the Geelong Botanic…

GRIFFITHS ISLAND

GRIFFITHS ISLAND PORT FAIRY, Moyne Shire

Griffiths Island, Port Fairy, is an unusual geological landform, consisting of an isolated basalt outcrop, overlain with calcareous sand, and partly bounded by possible collapsed lava…

GLENROWAN HERITAGE PRECINCT

SIEGE STREET and CHURCH STREET and GLADSTONE STREET and HILL STREET and BURNS STREET GLENROWAN, WANGARATTA RURAL CITY

The Glenrowan Heritage Precinct is the area of central Glenrowan which is associated with the notorious siege leading up to the capture of Ned Kelly and the deaths of his other gang members…

COLLINS SETTLEMENT SITE

2700-3148 POINT NEPEAN ROAD SORRENTO, Mornington Peninsula Shire

The British Government's decision to establish a settlement in southern Australia appears to have been prompted by favourable reports of Port Phillip Bay and concerns about the interest of…

GRINGEGALGONA HOMESTEAD

182 GRINGE DIP ROAD GRINGEGALGONA, Southern Grampians Shire

Gringegalgona homestead was built for Duncan Robertson, a successful Western District pastoralist who acquired the Gringegalgona pastoral run with about 40,000 acres in c1861. The house was…

EUREKA HISTORIC PRECINCT

501-525 EUREKA STREET EUREKA, BALLARAT CITY

The Eureka rebellion was a brief demonstration of armed conflict against injustice, its events have a special association with the Australian community and have been bestowed with tremendous…

HODDLE SURVEY TREE, KEW GOLF CLUB

120B BELFORD ROAD KEW EAST, BOROONDARA CITY

A remnant River Red Gum tree used as a reference marker by the Government surveyor Robert Hoddle in April 1844 when surveying crown land for the first land sales in Kew in 1845. History…

SAWPIT GULLY NURSERY AND PLANTATION

SAWPIT GULLY ROAD CRESWICK, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Sawpit Gully Plantation contains the site of the first State Nursery established at Creswick in 1888 and a collection of exotic and native trees. The trees were planted under the…

BESSIEBELLE SHEEPWASHES AND YARDS

PYES ROAD BESSIEBELLE, Moyne Shire

The Bessiebelle Sheepwashes and Yards complex is located on the former 14,000 acre Ardonachie Run, established in 1848 by pastoralist Samuel Gorrie, then carrying 6,000 sheep. In 1864 this…

RANELAGH ESTATE

MOUNT ELIZA, Mornington Peninsula Shire

In 1922 John E Taylor, a timber merchant trading under the name Sequoia, bought the Mount Eliza property Nyora which had been owned by politician JT Smith in 1854 and later by the notable…

BUCHAN CAVES RESERVE

CAVES ROAD BUCHAN, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

The 285ha Buchan Caves Reserve is situated in the Buchan-Murrindal cave system, a large outcrop of cave and karst-forming limestones in south-eastern Victoria. The earliest known written…

HV MCKAY MEMORIAL GARDENS

ANDERSON ROAD SUNSHINE, Brimbank City

Hugh Victor McKay established the Sunshine Harvester Works in 1889, which produced the Sunshine Harvester for grain harvesting, revolutionising the wheat industry in Australia. McKay had…