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Black Forest
An extensive and dense forest covering about 20km from Macedon to Woodend.

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.42.


Blue Mountain Diggings
Now called Trentham about 15km east of Daylesford.

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.386.


Clowes Forest
This gold mining area was named after Thomas Clowes, a local squatter; it is now called Tylden, about 10km south of Kyneton.

Randell, J.O., Pastoral Settlement in Northern Victoria, Volume 1, The Coliban District, Melbourne, 1979, pp.246-7.


Coliburn Creek
Now called Coliban River not far from Kyneton.

Waterhouse, Jill (ed.), Autobiographical Narrative of Residence and Exploration in Australia 1832-1839 by Edward John Eyre, London, 1984, p.126.


Cormoora
Now called Hepburn Springs, about 90km north west of Melbourne.

Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its metropolis : past and present, vols.2, Melbourne, 1888, map.


Five Mile Creek
The early name for Woodend in central Victoria.

Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its metropolis : past and present, vols.1, 2A and 2B, Melbourne, 1888, vol.1, p.345.


Gavan Duffy
Now known as Kilmore East, about 60 km north of Melbourne.

Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its metropolis : past and present, vols.1, 2A and 2B, Melbourne, 1888, vol.2, map.


Holcombe
A forgotten township about 100 km north west of Melborne at 37°18′ south 144°18′ east.

Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its metropolis : past and present, vols.1, 2A and 2B, Melbourne, 1888, vol.2, map.


Middle Gully
Renamed Macedonia in 1861after nearby Mount Macedon which had been named back in 1836 after Philip of racedonia.

Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, 1993, Sydney, p.283.


Mount Wentworth
So named by Hume and Hovell in 1824. It was renamed Mount Macedon in 1836 by Thomas Mitchell after Philip of Macedonia.

Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, 1993, Sydney, p.285.


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.