Mount Rothwell

Mount Rothwell
Victoria
Mount Rothwell is located in Melbourne
Mount Rothwell
Mount Rothwell
Coordinates37°52′52″S 144°26′29″E / 37.88112°S 144.44142°E / -37.88112; 144.44142
Established1850
Postcode(s)3211
Elevation22 m (72 ft)
Location
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Localities around Mount Rothwell:
Balliang Quandong Mambourin
Anakie Mount Rothwell Werribee
Lara Little River Little River

Mount Rothwell is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located to the north east of the You Yangs hills, between Bacchus Marsh and Werribee.

It is the location of the Mount Rothwell wildlife sanctuary and the historic Mount Rothwell homestead, built in 1873 for Pastoralist Robert Chirnside, (listed on the Victorian Heritage Register (H1107),[2] inherited on his father's death in 1918 by his grandson Dr James Chirnside, and occupied by the Chirnside family until about 2000.[3]

The homestead was used for filming of the 2003 Ned Kelly,[4] and was purchased in 2000 along with the estate by the Mount Rothwell Biodiversity Interpretation Centre.[5]

Nearby is the Mount Rothwell Aboriginal stone arrangement known as Wurdi Youang[6] and the ruins of the Mount Rothwell Hotel.[7]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Mount Rothwell". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2012. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Mount Rothwell Homestead, Victorian Heritage Database place details - 21/6/2016
  3. ^ Ronald, Heather. 1978, Wool Past the Winning Post: A History of the Chirnside Family, Landvale Enterprises, Melbourne.
  4. ^ "Mt Rothwell Homestead". Old estates for sale. Retrieved 15 August 2019. [unreliable source?]
  5. ^ "Little River Earth Sanctuary Story". Archived from the original on 28 August 2005. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  6. ^ Lane, L. and Fullagar, R. (1980) Previously unrecorded Aboriginal stone alignments in Victoria. Records of the Victoria Archaeological Survey, No. 10, pp. 134-151
  7. ^ "Ruins of Mt. Rothwell Hotel, Little River," Wyndham History, accessed 23 October 2016