Lancefield

This article covers the location in Australia. For the US microbiologist, see Rebecca Lancefield .

Lancefield
Main Street from Lancefield
State :  Australia State : Victoria
Coordinates : 37 ° 16 ′  S , 144 ° 43 ′  E Coordinates: 37 ° 16 ′  S , 144 ° 43 ′  E Area : 2.9  km²
Residents : 1,462 (2016) Population density : 504 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 3435
LGA : Shire of Macedon Ranges Website : www.lancefield.org.au
Lancefield

The Antikzentrum, a restored hostel.

Lancefield is a town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges in Victoria , Australia . The place is 92 km north of Melbourne with a population of 1,462 people in 2016.

history

In the field of urban living Aborigines of Wurundjeri where the important for them Mount William Stone Ax Quarry was a quarry in the won, the indigenous population stone material and from stone axes formed until the British from 1837 settled in the area. The quarry, which was in use for about 1,500 years, is located northeast of Lancefield,

The Lancefield Post Office was opened on January 16, 1858 in the area of Romsey / Five Mile Creek 6 km from the city - located in the south. When the post office opened on Five Mile Creek in 1860 , it was the original town.

The high altitude Lancefield and the climate made the place a popular place for summer retreat in the 1880s. In the later years numerous wineries sprang up in this area.

The town is historically linked to Ned Kelly because it was there when Constable Fitzpatrick was successful as the ringleader of the Kelly outbreak in 1878. The Victoria Police found this offense and dropped him off.

The Lancefield area is known for having some of the most fertile soils in Victoria. Originally the area was divided into small fields. In the 1970s, this region produced the highest yield per acre of potatoes, weight gain from lambs and cattle, wheat and other grains.

A large Pleistocene fossil deposit has been discovered in the Lancefield swamp that is home to numerous rare fossils of the Australian megafauna , including the great macropus , a giant kangaroo; Diprotodon , a rhinoceros-sized wombat, and Genyornis , a giant flying bird, have been found.

There is a Lancefield Football Club that plays in the Riddell District Football League .

Lancefield Golf Club has a golf course on Heddle Road.

Burke and Wills

Main article : → Burke and Wills expedition

The expedition of the explorers Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills camped at Lancefield on their expedition through Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria . They arrived on August 23, 1860 and set up their fourth camp there after leaving Melbourne.

There is a marker in Lancefield at Mustey's Bridge on Deep Creek , which reminds of the location of the camp. A road from her way north to Mia Mia , the Burke and Wills Track , reminds her of her.

railroad

The former Lancefield Railway Station

A railway line from Melbourne to Bendigo branched off to Clarkefield (known as Lancefield Junction ), which opened as early as Lancefield on June 6, 1881. This section of the route was closed on August 13, 1956.

By April 6, 1892, the line stretched from Lancefield to Kilmore . However, this section of the route was just as unsuccessful, so it was closed on June 1, 1897.

Famous pepole

Farmland to the south of Lancefield: The local cemetery can be seen on the left

John Allan was the 29th Prime Minister of Victoria, born in Lancefield in 1866.

Breaker Morant and Bushveldt Carbineers

In Lancefield, Georg Witton lived after his release from prison in Great Britain from 1904. Witton was a member of the Bushveldt Carbineers who was arrested with Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock for executing prisoner Boers in the Boer War . Morant and Handcock were convicted and shot dead in Pretoria on February 27, 1902. Witton was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, but was released after 28 months because public pressure from Australia forced his release. He then came to Lancefield in broken health and wrote his angry book Scapegoats of the Empire in 1907. In the introduction to his book he wrote that he intended to live in Lancefield. Except for a few copies, his publications were destroyed by fire. In 1982 Angus and Robertson published the book again and after the success of this book the film Breaker Morant was directed by Bruce Beresford .

literature

• John Reid (Ed.): When Memory Turns The Key: The History of the Shire of Romsey , Jovial, Bacchus Marsh, 1992, ISBN 0-9588112-5-3

Web links

Commons : Lancefield, Victoria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lancefield community website
• Lancefield megafauna excavation website
• Lancefield tourist website
• SMH Travel website
• Burke & Wills Web A comprehensive website containing many of the historical documents relating to the Burke & Wills Expedition.
• The Burke & Wills Historical Society The Burke & Wills Historical Society.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Lancefield ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
2. ^ Premier Postal History: Post Office List . Retrieved April 11, 2008.
3. ^ ^{A b} Peter Mitchell, Alan Jackson, Carol Moore, Gavin Smith: Romsey: A Veritable Garden of Eden . West Bourke Books Inc, Romsey 2004, ISBN 0-646-43570-1 .
4. ↑ Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1881 & 1883 , 'Royal Commission on the Police Force of Victoria'
5. ↑ cf. JJ Kenneally, Inner History of the Kelly Gang , 1929 plus all subsequent editions, Ch II [2]
6. ^ Golf Select: Lancefield . Retrieved May 11, 2009.
7. ^ Keith Turton, The Heathcote Junction to Bendigo and Associated Railways , pp. 69-88, Australian Railway History | Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, April 1970
8. ^ LG Pool: Some Notes on the Lancefield-Kilmore Section , pp. 22-23, Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, February 1953