Yellingbo is a town in Victoria

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...

, 48 km east from Melbourne's central business district

Melbourne city centre

Melbourne City Centre is an area of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is not to be confused with the larger local government area of the City of Melbourne...

. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges

Shire of Yarra Ranges

The Yarra Ranges Shire is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia, located in the outer eastern and northeastern suburbs of Melbourne extending into the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges...

. At the 2006 Census, Yellingbo had a population of 210.

History

The Post Office opened around 1902 as Parslow's, was renamed Yellingbo in 1946 and closed in 1991.

The Town today

Yellingbo's town area contains a public hall, CFA

Country Fire Authority

Country Fire Authority, or CFA, is the name of the fire service that provides firefighting and other emergency services to all of the country areas and regional townships within the state of Victoria, Australia, as well as large portions of the outer suburban areas and growth corridors of Melbourne...

, general store, primary school and tennis courts, as well as the Waterfall Art Gallery.

Biodiversity

Nearby is the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve

Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve

Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve is a 4.6 km2 nature reserve 50 km east of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It lies in the Upper Yarra Valley, near the towns of Yellingbo and Macclesfield...

, which contains three of Victoria's state emblems. The last remaining wild population of the Helmeted Honeyeater

Helmeted Honeyeater

The Helmeted Honeyeater is a passerine bird in the Honeyeater family. It is a distinctive and critically endangered subspecies, formerly considered a full species, of the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater, that exists in the wild only as a tiny relict population in the Australian state of Victoria, in the...

, one of Victoria's official emblems. The Leadbetters Possums Gymnobelideus leadbeateri is the faunal state emblem and is a geographically isolated from other populations. Common-pink Heath Epacris impressa is the floral state emblem.

External links

Google Street View- Yellingbo- Parslows Road

• Helmeted Honeyeater (ABC
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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  - George Negus Tonight) 1 September 2004
• Fact Sheet - Helmeted Honeyeater (Zoology Victoria)