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Neale Road Ford
Neale Road, DEER PARK VIC 3023 - Property No 82

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1928 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 2000
1928 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 2000
1928 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 2000
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Statement of Significance

Statement of Significance

The Neale Road ford, approach roads and water reserve landscape is of local historical significance as a representation of the first wave of pastoral settlement and road communications in the Colony of Victoria. The Telford roadways are technologically significant as examples of nineteenth century road making while the ford and roads demonstrate adaptation to the local landscape in the use of locally quarried bluestone and basalt fieldstone.
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    • Physical Description 1

      Neale Road Ford - Physical Description 1

      Description

      Remnants of the bluestone ford across Kororoit Creek which once linked Neale Road and Rockbank Middle Road. The Neale Road approach remains relatively intact, following the contours of the gently sloping bank through a triangular Water Reserve. This area retains some indigenous vegetation, and the roadway has remnants of original Telford cobble construction. The Rockbank side follows a steep route up the creek bank turning sharply to the north and then to the west, with the roadway heavily-eroded. The Telford paving only starts from here on. A poorly defined track runs along the east bank to the north, ending at a small rocky outcrop, which appears to have been quarried. This outcrop possibly provided the stone for the base of the ford.

      Physical Conditions

      Neale Road Ford - Physical Conditions

      Condition/integrity

      The area is relatively intact, considering the suburban development around it. However, the submerged part of the ford has been bulldozed.

      Intactness

      Neale Road Ford - Intactness

      Substantially intact.

      Historical Australian Themes

      Neale Road Ford - Historical Australian Themes

      3 Developing local, regional and national economies
      3.8 Moving goods and people

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Brimbank - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study

      Author: G. Vines
      Year: 2000
      Grading: Local

      Brimbank - Melbourne Western Region Industrial Heritage Study

      Author: G. Vines & A. Ward
      Year: 1989
      Grading:

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