Diggers Rest, Victoria

Diggers Rest, Victoria
Diggers Rest
Victoria
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Diggers Rest is located in Melbourne
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Diggers Rest
Population: 2,381(2006) [1]
Established: 1874
Postcode: 3427
Elevation: 153 m (502 ft)
Location:
LGA: Shire of Melton, City of Hume
State District: Macedon
Federal Division: Lalor
Localities around Diggers Rest:
Toolern Vale Sunbury Wildwood
Toolern Vale Diggers Rest Bulla
Ravenhall Keilor North Tullamarine

Diggers Rest (formerly Diggers' Rest) is a town in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 33 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. It lies on the old Calder Highway near the Calder Freeway. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Melton and City of Hume. At the 2006 Census Diggers Rest had a population of 2,381.

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History

Diggers Rest began life as a stopping place on the road to the Bendigo goldfields and the Post Office opened on 18 June 1860.[2] Caroline Chisholm started a women's shelter in the area. The town grew in the 1870s and 1880s and became a postal village with a general store, post office, weighbridge, mechanics' institute and a chaff mill.

It is famous for being the location of the first controlled powered flight of an aeroplane undertaken in Australia. The flight was performed by Harry Houdini in 1910.[3]

To the north of Diggers Rest township within the locality is the former township known as The Gap or Buttlejorrk.

Sunbury Rock Festival

The four Sunbury Pop Festivals were held on on the same 620-acre (2.5 km2) private farm along Jacksons Creek, on the southern outskirts of Sunbury, between Sunbury and Diggers Rest. The Property was owned by farmer and local identity George Duncan, and the property has become known in the district over the years simply as "Duncan's farm". The entrance gates to the Sunbury Pop Festivals was off Watsons Road. Also because of its close proximity (2 km) to the smaller township of Digger Rest, many of the attendees who traveled to Sunbury by train, actually alighted at Diggers Rest Railway station, and not Sunbury.

Present day

Diggers Rest contains a general store, a primary school and a CFA fire station, along with three large recreation reserves.[4] Sporting groups in Diggers Rest include Diggers Rest Football Club who play in the Riddell District Football League.

Diggers Rest Primary School was first opened in 1882 and moved to its present site in 1990. Diggers Rest Primary School features excellent facilities including air conditioned and heated classrooms, computer and Internet access to all grades, modern sports and playground equipment and landscaped grounds.

Diggers Rest Primary School is an integral part of the wider community and hosts annual events such as the Community Carols, Billy Cart Derby and Grandparents’ Day.

Other facilities in the Diggers Rest area include the Holden Flora and Fauna Reserve, Animal Land Children's Farm [1] and SPSK Jadran, a Slovenian social club which services nearby St Albans and Keilor.

Diggers Rest also has a Scout Group containing Cub Scouts and Scouts. They meet at the Diggers Rest Reserve behind the Tennis Club rooms.

Transport

Diggers Rest has a railway station on the Sunbury line, connecting the town with Melbourne's CBD.

Bus route connection with Moonee Ponds and with nearby Sunbury, at the former Victoria University campus.[5]

References

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Coordinates: 37°37′41″S 144°43′16″E / 37.628°S 144.721°E / -37.628; 144.721


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