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Woori Yallock Bridge

Location

Healesville-Kooweerup Road, Woori Yallock VIC 3139

File Number

881

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

The Woori Yallock bridge is of regional significance as the earliest known through-type timber truss bridge, supported on concrete piers built in Victoria. It is contemporary with the later larger Genoa Bridge. (McInnes 2000) It is earliest surviving example of a timber bridge across the Yarra River within the Yarra Ranges Shire. (National Trust 1998). Its design is associated with two significant engineers in Victorian (and Australian) road bridge history, T.H. Upton and D.V. Darwin. Its setting, with the riparian vegetation along the river and road cutting contributes to its significance.

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