Newtown, Victoria (Golden Plains Shire)

For the suburb of Geelong, see Newtown, Victoria.

Newtown Victoria
Nimmons Bridge
Newtown
Postcode:	3351[1]
Location:	144 km (89 mi) north west of Melbourne 28 km (17 mi) south west of Ballarat 4 km (2 mi) south of Scarsdale
LGA:	Golden Plains Shire

Newtown is a locality situated on Pitfield Road (Lismore - Scarsdale Road) in Golden Plains Shire, 144 km north-west of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia.

The Post Office opened on 12 November 1868 as Newtown-Scarsdale (to distinguish it from Newtown, now a suburb of Geelong. The office closed in 1957.^[2]

The Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail follows the former railway line from Ballarat to Skipton, crossing the Woady Yaloak River on the nearby Nimmons Trestle Bridge, which is one of the largest timber trestle bridges in Victoria.^[3]

The former recreation reserve, Newtown Cricket and Mustering Reserve, is currently unused. The surrounding grassland is classified as a biodiversity reseve by the Ballarat Environment Network.^[4]

Gold Bus Ballarat operates a school bus (route 34) departing from Newtown at 7.50 am to Bray Raceway, Ballarat and stopping at Ballarat South Community Learning Precinct^[5]

Notable residents

Charles McGrath (1872–1934), politician

References

1. ^ Australia Post postcode search
2. ^ Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=. Retrieved 2008-04-11 
3. ^ "Ballarat Skipton Rail Trail Notes". Bicycle Victoria. Archived from the original on 2008-07-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20080726203415/http://www.bv.com.au/file/file/Ballarat+Skipton+Rail+Trail+Notes.pdf?phpMyAdmin=DhLMKS7n7oG8nIonGyRgo-K1uw6. Retrieved 2008-06-10. 
4. ^ "Newtown Cricket and Mustering Reserve - BIRD". http://bird.net.au/bird/index.php?title=Newtown_Recreation_Reserve. Retrieved 2008-06-10. 
5. ^ "Gold Bus Ballarat – Routes". Archived from the original on 2008-07-18. http://web.archive.org/web/20080718210931/http://goldbus.com.au/routes/. Retrieved 2008-06-10. 

Coordinates: 37°42′18.5″S 143°39′16.5″E / 37.705139°S 143.654583°E / -37.705139; 143.654583