| Brown Hill Ballarat, Victoria |
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Humffray Street North village, Brown Hill. The post office is to the building to the right |
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Brown Hill
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| Population: | 2,057[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3350 | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 5 km (3 mi) from Ballarat Central | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Ballarat | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Ballarat West | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Ballarat | ||||||||||||
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Brown Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the eastern rural-urban fringe of the city. The population at the 2006 census was 2,057.[1]
Brown Hill is almost entirely residential, containing the east campus of Ballarat Secondary College, Caledonian Primary School, Saint Francis Xavier College (a catholic Prep - Year 6 Primary School) and Brown Hill Kindergarten.
The unbounded neighbourhood of Woodmans Hill is located in the east adjacent to Warrenheip.
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Brown Hill Post Office opened on 1 December 1857. [2]
Brown Hill has several sporting fields, including the 18 hole Mount Xavier Golf Course. There is also the Brown Hill Pool, a 25 Metre publicly owned unheated pool. Brown Hill has a cricket club which competes in the Ballarat Cricket Association. The training ground in Brown Hill is known as Progress Park, and the hard wicket there is used in home games for the club's third and fourth eleven, as well as junior matches. The club's first and second grades play home matches on the turf wicket at the Western Oval in Ballarat.
Brown Hill is serviced by the Ballarat bus service.
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