Glenrowan, Victoria

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Glenrowan's most famous landmark, a huge statue of Ned Kelly, here seen at night.

Glenrowan is a small town located in the Benalla Local Government Area of Victoria, Australia. It is 184 kilometers north-east of Melbourne and 14 kilometres from Wangaratta and located near the Warby Ranges and Mt. Glenrowan. It has an approximate population of 350.

Glenrowan was named after farmers James and George Rowan who ran farms in the area between 1846 and 1858. It is famous for the bushranger Ned Kelly capture there in 1880 after a siege and shootout with police.

Glenrowan is a popular rest point for those travelling on the Hume Freeway, as it holds McDonald's outlets on both sides of the freeway. In the township of Glenrowan, off the highway, tourists can rest, walk and examine the famous Kelly siege sites.

Books on the Glenrown area and Ned Kelly include

Kenneally, J. J. The Inner History of the Kelly Gang, 1929 (many reprints available- this was a watershed pro-Kelly work)
Brown, Max. Australian Son, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1948 (plus subsequent reprints)
Cave, Colin (ed.) Ned Kelly Man and Myth, Cassel Nth Melbourne, 1963. (an important watershed work in lifting the Kelly story into the academic arena)
Jones, Ian. Ned Kelly: A Short Life, Lothian, Port Melbourne, 1995. (a comprehensive work)
Prior,Tom. et al, A Pictorial History of Bushrangers, Paul Hamlyn, Sydney, 1968. (many photos of Glenrowan in 1880)
McQuilton, John. The Kelly Outbreak 1878-1880, Melbourne University Press, 1979. (a watershed academic work)
Phillips, John, The Trial of Ned Kelly, The Law Book Company, Nth Ryde, 1987.
Clune, Frank. The Kelly Hunters, 1954.
Osborne, Charles. Ned Kelly, Sphere Books, London, 1970.
Sadlier, John, Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer, (1913)Penguin Colonial Facsimiles Ringwood, 1973. (autobiography from a Kelly Gang police pursuer)