Mount Rothwell is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located to the north east of the You Yangs hills, between Bacchus Marsh and Werribee.
| Mount Rothwell Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 37°52′52″S 144°26′29″E / 37.88112°S 144.44142°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1850 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3211 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 22 m (72 ft) | ||||||||||||||
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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]
References
edit- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Mount Rothwell". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- ^ Mount Rothwell Homestead, Victorian Heritage Database place details - 21/6/2016
- ^ Ronald, Heather. 1978, Wool Past the Winning Post: A History of the Chirnside Family, Landvale Enterprises, Melbourne.
- ^ "Mt Rothwell Homestead". Old estates for sale. Retrieved 15 August 2019. [unreliable source?]
- ^ "Little River Earth Sanctuary Story". Archived from the original on 28 August 2005. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ Lane, L. and Fullagar, R. (1980) Previously unrecorded Aboriginal stone alignments in Victoria. Records of the Victoria Archaeological Survey, No. 10, pp. 134-151
- ^ "Ruins of Mt. Rothwell Hotel, Little River," Wyndham History, accessed 23 October 2016
