Leonards Hill, Victoria
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Leonards Hill is a town located in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria
, Australia
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South of Daylesford
on the Ballan
road, the town takes its name from timber splitter, W P Leonard who took up 143 acres (57.9 ha) of land on the hill in the 1860s.
Leonards Hill Post Office opened on 1 January 1868 and closed in 1971.
The Leonards Hill railway station was a stage of the Daylesford to North Creswick line until services were withdrawn in July 1953. The rails remained in place until 1959 but no further scheduled trains ran on them.
The town was chosen as the location for the Hepburn Wind Project
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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South of Daylesford
Daylesford, Victoria
Daylesford is a town located in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia. It is a former goldmining town about 115 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range. At the 2006 census, Daylesford had a population of 3,073...
on the Ballan
Ballan, Victoria
Ballan is a small town in the state of Victoria, Australia located on the Werribee River north west of Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Ballan had a population of 1,807.It is the main administrative centre for the Shire of Moorabool Local Government Area....
road, the town takes its name from timber splitter, W P Leonard who took up 143 acres (57.9 ha) of land on the hill in the 1860s.
Leonards Hill Post Office opened on 1 January 1868 and closed in 1971.
The Leonards Hill railway station was a stage of the Daylesford to North Creswick line until services were withdrawn in July 1953. The rails remained in place until 1959 but no further scheduled trains ran on them.
The town was chosen as the location for the Hepburn Wind Project
Hepburn Wind Project
The Hepburn Wind Project is a wind farm built and owned by Hepburn Wind, a community co-operative, and supported by the Victorian Government. The location of the project is Leonards Hill, 10 km south of Daylesford, Victoria, north-west of Melbourne, Victoria...
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