29-554: The Box Hill Town Hall is a landmark civic building located on Whitehorse Road , Box Hill , Victoria , Australia . Designed in the Neo-Grec style by architects JS Gawler and JCA Isbett, the town hall was built between 1934 and 1935. It was the administrative and community headquarters of the City of Box Hill prior to that city’s amalgamation with the City of Nunawading to form the new City of Whitehorse in 1994. The town hall
58-682: A cricket club, the Healesville Cricket Club, which competes in the Ringwood and District Cricket Association junior and senior competitions. Healesville has a tennis club, the Healesville Tennis Club, which competes in the Eastern Region Tennis junior and senior competitions. Healesville has a picnic horse racing club , Healesville Amateur Racing, which holds around seven race meetings
87-704: A semi-open natural setting and an active platypus breeding program. The Yarra Valley Railway operates from Healesville Station on every Sunday, most public holidays and Wednesday to Sunday during school holidays. Schools in Healesville include the Healesville Primary School, St Brigid's Catholic primary school, the rural Chum Creek Primary School, Badger Creek Primary School, Healesville High School and Worawa Aboriginal College , an Aboriginal school whose former students include Australian Rules Footballer David Wirrpanda . Much of what
116-560: A tourist destination since the 1880s, with the Grand Hotel built in 1888, and the 60-room Gracedale House in 1889. A Tourist and Progress Association was created in the 1920s. The association published "Healesville, The World-famed Tourist Resort", listing over 40 beauty spots and 20 hotels and guest houses. The construction of the Maroondah Dam in the 1920s brought several hundred workmen to Healesville. Their departure and
145-759: A year with the Healesville Cup meeting in January. The Healesville Greyhound Racing Club also holds regular greyhound racing meetings at the Healesville Showgrounds and Sporting Complex on Don Road. Golfers play at the course of the RACV Country Club on Yarra Glen Road. Healesville has a soccer team known as Healesville Soccer Club that plays in the Victorian State League 4 East . Healesville has been
174-442: Is a major east–west thoroughfare in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne , and a highway connecting the north-eastern fringes of Melbourne to Mansfield , at the lower alpine region of Victoria , Australia . Maroondah Link Highway links Cathkin (on Goulburn Valley Highway) and Yarck (on Maroondah Highway), allowing an easier link to Melba Highway via Yea for Melbourne traffic. Whitehorse Road/Maroondah Highway commences at
203-495: Is described as having "regional architectural, historic and social importance" by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) . Its imposing façade has been utilised by the television series Neighbours as the external setting for the court house in the fictional town of Erinsborough . The interior includes a main hall and other community and meeting spaces. There are two dates engraved on the town hall’s portico – 1927,
232-484: Is now Healesville lies on the ancestral land of the Wurundjeri people. An Aboriginal reserve known as Coranderrk , set up in 1863, was located just south of the main township. Industries in and around Healesville include sawmilling , horticulture , tourism and viticulture . Healesville has an active CFA ( Country Fire Authority ) volunteer fire brigade established in 1894. The Healesville Rural Fire Brigade
261-588: Is the longest trail of its type in the world. The northern end of the trail is at Cooktown, Queensland , a town 328 kilometres (204 mi) north of Cairns . At the time of the 2021 census , there were 7,589 people in Healesville. The town has an Australian rules football team, the Healesville Football Club, competing in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League . Healesville has
290-613: The Road Management Act 2004 granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads : in 2004, VicRoads declared this road as Whitehorse Road (Arterial #5996), beginning from Burke Road in Balwyn and ending at Union Road, Surrey Hills , as Maroondah Highway (Arterial #6720), from Burke Road to where it meets Midland Highway in Mansfield (this declaration overlaps
319-587: The Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area . Healesville recorded a population of 7,589 in the 2021 census . Healesville is situated on the Watts River , a tributary of the Yarra River . The outskirts of Healesville is home to a wildlife sanctuary, called Healesville Sanctuary . Traffic to the more distant Gippsland and Yarra Valley goldfields in the 1860s resulted in a settlement forming on
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#1732801492210348-641: The Country Roads Board. Maroondah Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1947/48 financial year, from Union Road in Surrey Hills via Lilydale , Healesville , Alexandra , Yarck and Merton to Mansfield (for a total of 116 miles), subsuming the original declaration of (Main) Healesville Road, Healesville-Alexandra Road, Yarck Road, Cathkin-Mansfield Road (between Yarck and Merton) and Mansfield Road as Main Roads. Maroondah Link Highway
377-685: The Healesville Music Festival, Open Studios, and the Yarra Valley Rodeo. The Memo, a centre for community arts and cultural activities, was built in 1924 as a soldier's memorial hall. The Internet Movie Database has Healesville and its environs as the filming locations for a number of films and TV programs: the Australian TV series Young Ramsay (1977), Felicity (1979), the natural history TV series Life on Earth (1979), Frog Dreaming (1986),
406-739: The Watts River and its survey as a town in 1864. It was named after Richard Heales , the Premier of Victoria from 1860–1861. The post office opened on 1 May 1865. The town became a setting off point for the Woods Point Goldfield with the construction of the Yarra Track in the 1870s. Healesville is known for the Healesville Sanctuary , a nature park with hundreds of native Australian animals displayed in
435-780: The Whitehorse Road declaration in its entirety: dual-naming is observed on signposts, but despite ending in Surrey Hills dual-naming has been confusingly signposted as far east as Mitcham Road), and as Maroondah Link Highway (Arterial #6020), from Goulburn Valley Highway in Cathkin to Maroondah Highway in Yarck . Healesville, Victoria Healesville is a town in Victoria , Australia , 64 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district , located within
464-578: The central median strip (Burke Road and Elgar Roads being the east and west boundaries of Captain Elgar's original two mile square property); the tram tracks terminate at Market Street, a few blocks further on, and it widens further to a six-lane dual-carriageway just beyond at the intersection with Station Street. It continues east through the suburbs of Blackburn and Nunawading to the intersection with Mitcham Road in Mitcham , where Whitehorse Road ends and
493-465: The good-time town instead of the world-famed-tourist-resort—that's got whiskers on it". In modern times Healesville has become a centre for tourism based around the wine and food industries of the Yarra Valley, with attractions including Healesville Sanctuary, Badger Weir Picnic Area, Yarra Valley Railway, Healesville Organic Market, numerous cafes and restaurants, and volunteer-run events such as
522-519: The intersection of Cotham Road and Burke Road at Deepdene , and heads in an easterly direction as a four lane, single carriageway arterial road (with on-street tram tracks), through the suburbs of Balwyn and Deepdene ; the route 109 tram also runs along this stretch of the road. It continues east through Mont Albert , to the intersection with Elgar Road in Box Hill , where the road widens to four-lane dual carriageway , with trams running down
551-426: The late 1990s, Metropolitan Route 34 was truncated back to Lilydale, and replaced by routes B300 between Lilydale and Coldstream, route B360 between Coldstream and Alexandra, C516 between Koriella and Yarck, B300 between Yarck and Maindample, and B320 between Maindample and Mansfield. Maroondah Link Highway was signed State Route 153 between Cathkin and Yarck in 1986, and was later replaced by route B300. The passing of
580-453: The onset of the 1930s depression exposed Healesville's restricted range of industries. Timber and tourism were not stable enough for sustained and reliable growth. Notwithstanding the depression, the 1930s saw increased motor tourism (partly bypassing Healesville) and decreased railway patronage. Only 10% came by rail at Easter 1934. Tourism was still active but a local newspaper commented that Healesville would be "heaps better off calling itself
609-415: The road continues east only as Maroondah Highway. It continues north-east past Croydon to the intersection with Mooroolbark and Victoria Roads on the western edge of Lilydale , where it narrows to a four-lane single carriageway road, and runs through Iliydale, after which it becomes a rural highway. There is a moderately steep and moderately twisty section through forest between Healesville and Buxton, and
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#1732801492210638-558: The road then continues through farmland all the way through Alexandra and Bonnie Doon to eventually terminate at the intersection with Midland Highway in Mansfield . In the 1850s, Whitehorse Road was built to be the primary route from Melbourne to Gippsland , a rather circuitous route which went via the Dandenong Ranges . Today the primary route is now via the Monash and Princes Freeways . The road, when first built,
667-600: The state's major roads from local municipalities. (Main) Healesville Road , from Ringwood through Lilydale to the Yarra River on the western edge of Healesville , and Healesville-Alexandra Road , from the Yarra River to Buxton , were declared Main Roads on 20 October 1913; the rest of Healesville-Alexandra Road from Buxton through Taggerty to Alexandra , and Cathkin-Mansfield Road from Cathkin to Merton , were declared as Main Roads on 16 November 1914; Mansfield Road from Merton through Mansfield to Merrijig
696-698: The white horse from the roof of the hotel now stands in the median strip of Whitehorse Road, while the restored original is located in the Box Hill Town Hall. The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912 through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads ) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of
725-629: The year Box Hill was proclaimed a city, and 1994, the year of amalgamation. The crest of the former City of Box Hill is also featured on the portico. In 2006, the town hall underwent a $ 6.5 million redevelopment as a hub for community-based services and programs and a home for the City of Whitehorse arts and historical collections. 37°49′09″S 145°07′36″E / 37.8191°S 145.1266°E / -37.8191; 145.1266 Whitehorse Road, Melbourne Maroondah Highway (also known as Whitehorse Road from Deepdene to Surrey Hills )
754-645: Was declared a Main Road on 30 November 1914; another portion of Main Healesville Road between Nunawading and Ringwood was declared a Main Road on 3 May 1915; and Yarck Road between Yarck and Koriella was declared a Main Road on 20 September 1915. The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through
783-707: Was formed in 1941, then disbanded and membership amalgamated with the Healesville Urban Fire Brigade in 1985. The amalgamation of the Chum Creek Rural Fire Brigade with the Healesville brigade occurred in 1996. The Healesville Fire Brigade now operates a main and a satellite station with members from both the Healesville and Chum Creek areas. Healesville is the southern terminus of the Bicentennial Heritage Trail , which, at 5,330 km (3,310 mi),
812-419: Was later declared as a State Highway on 9 May 1983, subsuming the remaining declaration of Cathkin-Mansfield Road between Yarck and Cathkin as a Main Road. Maroondah Highway was signed as Metropolitan Route 34 between Deepdene and Lilydale in 1965, later extended to Alexandra in 1986, and signed State Route 153 between Yarck and Mansfield in 1986. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in
841-588: Was named Three Chain Road, due to the road width being 66 yards (60 m) wide. The traffic led to the establishment of a hotel in Box Hill named the White Horse hotel which had been named for a horse belonging to Captain Elgar, a property owner in the area. It is this hotel of which the road obtained its name. However, the hotel was forced to shut its doors in 1921 when Box Hill became a dry area. A replica of
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