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Newstead Avenue of Honour

Other Name Pyrenees Highway, Newstead Location Pyrenees Highway NEWSTEAD, Mount Alexander Shire File Number Original Hermes No: 34547 Level -

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Statement of Significance

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The Avenue of Honour, Pyrenees Highway, Newstead, is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. The span of approximately 70 elm and plane trees (including a few original and young cut-leaf plane and elm trees forms an important visual quality and a significant urban focus in this area of the Newstead township. After the First World War, the planting of memorial avenues of honour became a state-wide trend.

The Avenue of Honour, Pyrenees Highway, Newstead, is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the men and women who fought in the First World War, having originally been planted in 1919, with replacement plantings occurring in 1995.

The Avenue of Honour, Pyrenees Highway, Newstead, is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and highly valued by the Newstead community for cultural, social and commemorative reasons in relation to those men and women who fought in the First World War.

Overall, the Avenue of Honour, Pyrenees Highway, Newstead, is of LOCAL significance.