Inglewood, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Inglewood
state = vic

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caption = Inglewood Town Hall
lga = Shire of Loddon
postcode = 3517
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stategov = Swan Hill
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dist1 = 185
dir1 = NW
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Inglewood is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Calder Highway, in the Shire of Loddon. At the 2006 census, Inglewood had a population of 834.

History

Inglewood began as a gold mining settlement during the Victorian Gold Rush, and nuggets are still being unearthed today.

Nearby is Rose Hill which saw the first rush in 1858 with former mining town Kurting dug up by alluvial miners in the 1860s to access the rich Thompson Gully lead. Reef mining followed in the 1870s on the Union Jack Reef, Welcome Reef by Messers Watkins & James Burrows, an 1849 Oxfordshire migrant assigned to Capt John Hepburn before the gold boom. The region's gold industry lasted longer than most rushes due to the number of reef discoveries around Inglewood, mainly reef mining until the start of World War I.

Post Offices opened at Inglewood on 12 March 1860 and at New Inglewood soon after on 15 may 1860. Inglewood was renamed Old Inglewood around 1865 and closed in 1882. New Inglewood was then renamed Inglewood around 1870.Citation
last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | accessdate = 2008-04-11 ]

Former Old Inglewood essentially was burnt to the ground in a major fire of 1867; the town was rebuilt in its current location.

About 1878 Inglewood became a rail head on the line from Bendigo, eventually the line was extended in the 1880s to Korong Vale.

During the period of 1918 to 1960s Inglewood was almost a ghost town, until the revival of historical interest and the modern day tourist boom.

From 6 December 1861 until 1 February 1961, Inglewood was managed by a borough council.

The Town today

The town hosts the Blue Eucalyptus Festival in October each year.

The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Loddon Valley Football League.

Notable People

Lawyer Maurice Blackburn was born in Inglewood in 1880.
*Reg Ansett, businessman, was born in Inglewood in 1909.
*The runner Jack Donaldson who held every professional sprint world record in the 1930s grew up in Inglewood.

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