Inverleigh, Victoria

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Inverleigh
Victoria

Inverleigh Hotel (1939)
Population: 1253 (2006)[1]
Postcode: 3321
Location:
LGA: Golden Plains Shire
State District: Polwarth
Federal Division: Corangamite
Localities around Inverleigh:
Rokewood Teesdale Lethbridge
Ombersley Inverleigh Stonehaven
Irrewarra Winchelsea Gnarwarre

Inverleigh is a small rural township in Victoria, Australia located 28 kilometres (17 mi) west from the City of Geelong and 104 kilometres (65 mi) from the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Inverleigh had a population of 1253.

Since the mid 1970s Inverleigh has become a dormitory suburb of Geelong with some residents commuting to Melbourne. The impending opening of the Geelong ring road will improve access to Melbourne which should be only a 45 minute drive away[2]

[edit] Early History

Very little has been recorded of the original inhabitants of the area. The few records available are reports of conflict. In the summer of 1937/38 a band of aborigines attacked the lower station of the Clyde Company (near Lullote) with two aborigines being killed and another injured and in 1839 George Russell reported natives sheep duffing.[3]

It has been speculated that the first European to arrive in Inverleigh was William Buckley[4], but the first European known to have visited Inverleigh was the surveyor J.H.Wedge who arrived in 1835, probably naming the Leigh River after his Tasmanian farm 'Leighlands'.

Very soon thereafter the Weatherboard Station land was taken up either by George Russell or by Station Manager David Fisher on behalf of The Derwent Company. It was claimed that the weatherboard homestead built by the station manager was Victoria's first weatherboard homestead.[5]. The name of the station is now commemorated by Weatherboard Road.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Inverleigh (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
  2. ^ Clive Dorman, Geelong's housing to attract huge people influx, Geelong Advertiser 10th May 2008
  3. ^ Lonsdale, Joan Gateway to the West, Inverleigh progress Association, 1978, p5
  4. ^ Lonsdale, Joan, 1978, p5
  5. ^ A Step into the Past, Shire of Bannockburn Arts, Crafts and Historical Committee,1985, p 10

Coordinates: 38°06′S, 144°03′E

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