Millgrove, Victoria

Millgrove Victoria
Population:	1576 (2006)[1]
Postcode:	3799
Elevation:	367 m (1,204 ft)
Location:	63 km (39 mi) from Melbourne 4 km (2 mi) from Warburton
LGA:	Shire of Yarra Ranges
State District:	Gembrook
Federal Division:	McEwen
Localities around Millgrove: Wesburn Warburton Warburton Wesburn Millgrove Warburton Wesburn Wesburn Warburton

Millgrove is a town in Victoria, Australia, 63 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Millgrove had a population of 1576.

Millgrove is located along the Warburton Highway, between Wesburn and Warburton.

The Post Office opened on 7 November 1906,^[2] four years after the opening of the town's railway station on 13 November 1901 on the Warburton line.

Millgrove remained a timber-milling and agricultural town, with occasional tourism and fishing, until the 1960s and 1970s. Despite the closure of the railway in 1965, cars placed Millgrove within acceptable commuting distances of larger towns.

Millgrove has a public reserve, a small shopping area (general store, bakery, greengrocer, newsagent), saw mill, Baptist church and a primary school which shares campuses with Warburton East. The former railway line is now a walking and cycling track.

Located beneath the forested mountains of Donna Buang, Ben Cairn and Mount Little Joe, near the Yarra River, Millgrove is a very scenic little town. Often neglected by tourists (in favour of the larger, more affluent and tourist-oriented town of Warburton), it offers great cycling, canoeing and bushwalking opportunities. It is also the location of Melbourne High School's school camps.

Together with its neighbouring township Warburton Millgrove has an Australian Rules football team (Warburton Millgrove) competing in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League.^[3]

References

1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Millgrove (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC26169&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 2007-10-01. 
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. ^ Full Points Footy, Warburton_Millgrove, http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/Warburton_Millgrove.htm, retrieved 2008-07-25 ^{[dead link]}

Coordinates: 37°45′11″S 145°39′07″E / 37.753°S 145.652°E / -37.753; 145.652