Tannery Lane culverts and trees

The Tannery Lane landscape comprising the English Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) hedge with Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera) seedlings on the southern side of the road, and on the northern side a Hawthorn hedge with seedling Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera) and Silver Poplar (Populus albda) juveniles, row of Osage Orange towards the eastern side of the road and Elm and Oak trees near the Mandurang Road entrance to the Lane. The sandstone drainage culverts on both sides of the road are also significant. The road itself and wooden bridge are not of significance.

How is it significant?

Tannery Lane landscape including English Hawthorn hedge, Osage Orange, Cherry Plums, Silver Poplar, Elm and Oak trees, and sandstone drainage culverts are of local historic, technical and aesthetic significance to the City of Greater Bendigo.

Why is it significant?

Tannery Lane is significant as a cultural landscape, beginning as an agricultural area in the mid-late 1850s and settled by a number of European immigrants. The area provided the good farming land that allowed some families and in particular some European immigrants to become established in the local area. The beginning of the viticulture industry which is now an important part of agriculture and economy in the region was established in this area of Mandurang. In particular Tannery Lane was a place where industry and intensive agriculture was located. Criterion A

The English Hawthorn hedge, Osage Orange, Cherry Plums, Silver Poplar, Elm and Oak trees, and sandstone drainage culverts are unusual in the local area and these provide a framework and setting to the road that is highly distinctive. Criterion D

Group

Transport - Road

Category

Other - Transport - Road