MALMSBURY POST OFFICE ROAD.

BAKER STREET MALMSBURY, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE

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    MALMSBURY POST OFFICE ROAD. - History

    Heritage Inventory History of Site: This road is now known as Malmsbury Post Office Road, and also as Elphinstone Access Road. However, the accounts of the Lausiston and Edgecombe District Road Board do not record any money spent on a road with either of these names, although most of the names recorded in these accounts are no longer used today. It is likely, however, that this road dates to the early days of Malmsbury. The earliest cadastral plans show this road extending north to meet with a road that ran from Elphinstone to the Barfold diggings during the 1850s and 1860s. Today the road ends approximately 800 metres south-east of the "Limestone" property. This road would have provided access to several houses that are now abandoned.

    Heritage Inventory Description

    MALMSBURY POST OFFICE ROAD. - Heritage Inventory Description

    A cobbled roadway, approximately 3 metres wide. The surface is of cobbles of various sizes set between larger curbing stones.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: Low archaeological significance (4). Of high regional historical significance, as this is a well preserved and extensive section of rural cobbled highway.

    Recorded by: Vincent Clark. Date Recorded: September 1998 Heritage Inventory Site Features: Cobbled road surface.

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