Return a short distance along Williams St and turn right into Hammond St. After one block cross over Wellsford St and continue along Hammond St. To the right is the Uniting Church Further west, at the corner of Hammond St and Kars St, is an old winery built in the s by a Doctor Augustus Mueller who gained local notoriety when he claimed to have created an antidote for snake bites.
Turn left into Kars St. To the right is Melville House, built c. Turn left into High St and return to the start of the walk. Turn left into the latter and it is about 1 km to 'The Gorge'. There is a signpost and carpark with information signs at the start of the walk. A tail race was constructed here in It was deepened in the s to form a narrow gorge which diverted Yackandandah Creek from its natural course.
This allowed miners to access the gold along the original creek bed. The walk passes through an area that was extensively mined and takes in two diversion walls. It leads through to the sports oval at the end of Wellsford St. Forest Drive If you continue to follow Bells Flat Road south-west beyond The Gorge it leads through Stanley State Forest where the disturbed ground adjacent the roads indicates the area's goldmining past.
Today the forest is used both for logging and army training so watch for other vehicles. There is a variety of vegetation and hence a range of wildlife, though many species are nocturnal. There are swamp wallabies, lizards, possums, gliders, echidnae, wombats, bandicoots, marsupial mice, rosellas, willy-wagtails, honeyeaters and many other birds.
A little over 1 km from this intersection is a turnoff on the left to a picnic area. If you ignore this turnoff and continue along Yack Gate Road for about two more kilometres it passes a couple of roadside and creekside campsites then veers off to the right at an intersection where the No.
There is a campsite at this intersection. Proceed along the No. After about m there is a turnoff on the right to another campsite. If you ignore this turnoff and continue along the No. It leads past another couple of roadside campsites. At its end turn left into Back Creek Rd which will return you to town. A number of 4WD tracks head off the main roads. Watch out for old tunnels and mine shafts if you go bushwalking.
For further information contact the Department of Natural Resources and Environment on 03 It is open weekends and all Victorian school holidays or by appointment and is located 4 km south of Yackandandah on Kirbys Flat Road follow the gallery or pottery signs , tel: 02 It is a commercial lavender farm offering guided tours, a nursery, display gardens, lawns, lavender fields, picnic areas with barbecues, parking facilities, tearooms and a gift shop selling crafts, cosmetics, 22 types of lavender and over perennials.
They are open daily from 9. The cemetery was established in and contains the graves of gold miners and other early settlers, including an area reserved for Chinese interments up the hill and to the right from the fine timber entrance gates which were added in About 2 km along here is Schmidt's Strawberry Winery Farm, established in by Johann Schmidt whose family has been making fruit wines since the 15th century. There are dry, sweet and semi-sweet strawberry wines, a strawberry liqueur and, in season November to February , fresh strawberries.
The winery is open every day from 9. During the Victorian school holidays and on long weekends it also opens on Sundays, tel: 02 Allans Flat and the Vienna Patisserie Chalet Adjacent Schmidt's is an enormous hole created by hydraulic gold dredging which has been converted into a lake and public reserve with grassed areas, picnic tables, chairs and wood barbecues. A cairn at the entrance to the reserve on the southern side of the lake commemorates the occasion in when David Reid became the first white person to take up land in the area.
To the immediate right are the Memorial Gardens which have a timber pavilion, trim lawns and tall palm trees. Next door is the Star Hotel and adjacent that is Memory Lane, a bric-a-brac shop located in the former Dean's Store, built of local brick.
Note the intact shop front, lamb's tongue window mouldings and arched windows. By submitting your email you are agreeing to Fairfax Media's terms and conditions and privacy policy. It is open daily from 9.
The business is housed in a building constructed of hand-made bricks on a granite foundation in Continue east along High St past the newsagency and the bakery which features an old-style wood-fired oven.
Further east along High St, to the right, is the former Bank of Australasia building The bank purchased the site from one of the town's first storekeepers. Over the road is an older stone building which the bank used as its premises from Cross over Williams St and the main road becomes Isaacs Ave, named after Sir Isaac Isaacs, a local boy who became Australia's first homegrown governor-general.
On the north-eastern corner of Williams St and Isaacs Ave is one of the town's first brick residences c. It is alleged that Isaacs lived in this house. Today it houses a curios and collectables shop which is open from Over the road, at 2 Isaacs Ave, is Stonebridge Cottage Studio which sells oils, watercolours, pottery, sculpture and screen prints. It is open most days from A little further along Isaacs Ave is a fine old stone bridge across Commissioners Creek which was built in as part of the Melbourne to Sydney Road.
Further south along Commissioners Creek at the intersection with Yackandandah Creek is the site where gold was discovered in , sparking the local goldrush. Along here, to the left, are the Anglican Church and rectory Past Hammond St, to the right, is the Classical Revival courthouse with its brick loggia and detailed gable.
The town's original police camp was established on this site in Return a short distance along Williams St and turn right into Hammond St. After one block cross over Wellsford St and continue along Hammond St.
To the right is the Uniting Church Further west, at the corner of Hammond St and Kars St, is an old winery built in the s by a Doctor Augustus Mueller who gained local notoriety when he claimed to have created an antidote for snake bites.
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At present we distil small quantities of oil from selected plants mainly for trialling and quality control. Our main crop consists of 3 lavandula X intermedia plants, Miss Donnington, Grosso and Vera, which come into flower from mid November each year.
Harvesting is done by hand in the traditional manner from mid January and takes from 2 to 4 weeks depending on the weather conditions.
We have a number of lavender varieties which flower almost all year round so that there is always Lavender in flower at the Lavender Patch.
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