Ballarat
Poverty Flat
The first beginnings of the handsome city of Ballarat.
Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its metropolis: past and present, vols.1, Melbourne, 1888, p.306.
Barker's Creek
Now called Castlemaine in central Victoria.
Hancock, Marguerite, Glimpses of Life in Victoria by ' A Resident', Melbourne, 1996, p.88.
Barnard River
Mitchell's name for the Coliban River, 15 km or 20 km east of Castlemain.
Andrew Barnard was a commander in the Light Division during the Peninsula
war.
Mitchell, Thomas, Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia : with descriptions
of the recently explored region of Australia Felix and of the present colony
of New South Wales, London : T. & W. Boone, 1839 ,vol.2, p.282.
Foster, William C., Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and his World, 1792-1855, Sydney, 1985, p.296.
Barney River
Named by Strzelecki after George Barney, now the Macalister River in central
Gippsland.
Watson, Don, Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia,Sydney, 1997, p.165.
Beckworth
A forgotten village about 35km north of Ballarat.
Whitworth, Robt. P., Baillier's Victorian gazetteer and road guide : containing the most recent
and accurate information as to every place in the Colony., Melbourne, 1870, p.32.
Black's Creek
A local name for the Mount Emu Creek, a tributary of the Hopkins in Victoria's
western district.
Bonwick, James, Western Victoria, its geography, geology, and social condition;
…, Melbourne, 1970, p.38.
Black Swamp
The early name for Lake Wendouree at Ballarat.
Aplin, Graeme , Foster, S.G.,Mckernan,Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.381.
Bridges
Now called Windermere about 15 km north west of Ballarat.
Whitworth, Robt. P., Baillier's Victorian gazetteer and road guide : containing the most recent
and accurate information as to every place in the Colony., Melbourne, 1870, p.53.
Brown's Waterholes
Now called Lismore after the place of that name in Ireland, about 60km
south west of Ballarat..
Martin, A. E., Place names in Victoria, and Tasmania, Sydney, 1944, p.52.
Bull Dog Flat
Now called Illabrook, about 40km south west of Ballarat.
Levey, George Collins, Hutchinson's Australasion Encyclopaedia, London, 1892, p.157.
Corduroy
Now called Clarendon, about 20 km south east of Ballarat.
Whitworth, Robt. P., Baillier's Victorian gazetteer and road guide: containing the most recent
and accurate information as to every place in the Colony, Melbourne, 1870, p.89.
Deep Creek
Deep Creek remains as a tributary of the Maribyrnong River but the settlement of that name is now called Bulla. About 25 km north west of Melbourne.
Trollope, Anthony, Australia Edited by P. D. Edwards and R. B. Joyce, St.Lucia, 1967, p.99.
Dobies Bridge
A forgotten township about 75 km north west of Ballarat.
Whitworth, Robt. P., Baillier's Victorian gazetteer and road guide: containing the most recent and accurate information as to every place in the Colony., Melbourne, 1870, p.118.
Dowling
A forgotten railway station between Ballarat and Windermere about 10 km
west of Ballarat.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings,...,
Melbourne, 1918, p.42.
Dunneworthy
Now known as Crowlands, about 80 km north west of Ballarat.
Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its metropolis : past and present, vols.1, 2A and 2B, Melbourne, 1888, vol.2, map
Egerton
A forgotten village about 40 km east of Ballarat.
Whitworth, Robt. P., Baillier's Victorian gazetteer and road guide: containing the most recent
and accurate information as to every place in the Colony, Melbourne, 1870, p.131.
Ewens Hill
Now called Mount Widderin, about 50 km south east of Ballarat.
Shaw Mary Turner, On Mount Emu Creek..., Melbourne, 1970, p.12.
Fiddler's Creek
Now called Percydale, about 35 km west of Maryborough.
Stone, Douglas, Dunnett, Greg, Discover Victoria's goldfield heritage, Burwood, 1993, p.105.
Fiery Creek
Now known as Beaufort, after Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, about 40
km north west of Ballarat.
Martin, A. E., Place names in Victoria, and Tasmania, Sydney, 1944, p.12.
Golden Point
Now known as Ballarat East.
Trollope Anthony, Australia Edited by P. D. Edwards and R. B. Joyce, St.Lucia, 1967, p.390.
Jim Crow Creek
Later known as Wombat Hill, it was re-named Daylesford by Sir Charles Hotham after Warren Hastings's home in England; about 40 km north east of Ballarat.
Appleton, Richard and Barbara,The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places, Melbourne, 1992, p.86.
Jim Crow Ranges
Now called Mount Franklin, about 35 km north east of Ballarat.
Howitt William, Land, Labour, and Gold, or Two Years in Victoria with visits to Sydney and Van Diemens Land, Kilmore, 1972, p.355.
Levy
A forgotten railway station between Ballarat and Buninyong.. Named agter Abraham Levy, one-time mayor of Ballarat East.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings,...,
Melbourne, 1918, p.62.
Little Hard Hills
Also called Whim Holes, a forgotten mining town about 30 km south of Ballarat.
Whitworth, Robt. P., Baillier's Victorian gazetteer and road guide : containing the most recent
and accurate information as to every place in the Colony, Melbourne, 1870, p.417.
Moodnaggera
A forgotten village about 45 km west of Ballarat at 37°28', 143°17'.
Kelly, William, Life in Victoria or Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858, 2 vols, London, 1859, map.
Mount Bonan Yowang
Later changed to Buninyong near Ballarat.
Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia: in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol,1 p.395.
Mount Carney
So named after an early settler, now called Mount Misery in Gippsland.
Horwitz, William, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1964 p.638.
Mount Clarke
Mitchell named this moutain after Major Shadwell Clerke but the engraver
misprinted it. Thomas Learmonth renamed it Mount Elephant in 1837; it is
about 75 km south west of Ballarat.
Andrews, Alan E.J., Stapylton with Major Mitchell's Australia Felix expedition, 1836 / largely from the journal of Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton, Hobart, 1986, p.192.
Mount Eeles
Named by Mitchell after a Peninsular war veteran; corrupted through misreading to Mount Eccles, about 45 km north east of Portland.
Andrews, Alan E.J., Stapylton with Major Mitchell's Australia Felix expedition, 1836 / largely
from the journal of Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton ; Alan E.J. Andrews,
editor, Hobart, 1986, p. 171.
Mount Solomon
Batman's name for Mount Blackwood, about 45km east of Ballarat.
Bonwick, James, Discovery and settlement of Port Phillip …, Melbourne, 1856, p.44.
Nintingbool
A forgotten railway station between Haddon and Smythesdale, about 15 km
south west of Ballarat.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings,...,
Melbourne, 1918, p.75
Sailor's Gully
Now called Nerring about 40 km west of Ballarat.
Levey, George Collins, Hutchinson's Australasion Encyclopaedia, London, 1892, p.238.
Tarita
A forgotten township about 60 km south of Bendigo at 37°19′ 144°12′..
Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its metropolis : past and present, vols.1, 2A and 2B, Melbourne, 1888, vol.2, map
Tea Tree
A forgotten gold mining town near 37°46' 144°06' about 40 km north west
of Geelong.
Lawrence, Susan, Dolly's Creek, Melbourne, 2000, p.8.
The Black Swamp
Now developed into Lake Wendouree in Ballarat.
NRMA, Holiday Guide 13vols, Sydney, 1997-1999, vol.10, p.193.
The Crossing Place
In the early 1840s a township developed here at the Glenelg River. It is
now called Casterton, in Victoria's western distinct. Lord Glenelg was
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Book of the Road, Sydney, 1999, p.161
Whim Holes
lAlso called Little Hard Hills, a forgotten mining town about 30 km south
of Ballarat.
Whitworth, Robt. P., Baillier's Victorian gazetteer and road guide, Melbourne, 1870, p. 417.
Wombat Hill
First known as Jim Crow Creek, it was re-named Daylesford by Sir Charles
Hotham after Warren Hastings's home in England; about 40km north east of
Ballarat.
Appleton, Richard and Barbara,The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places, Melbourne, 1992, p.86.
Woodburn
A forgotten railway station between Ballarat and Creswick, named after a local councillor.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings,...,
Melbourne, 1918, p.97.
Yuille's Swamp
William Yuille took up a run on Wendouree in 1838. The town became Ballarat
after an Aboriginal word said to mean a camping or resting place.
Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G., Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.381.
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