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Creswick Avenue of Honour and War Memorial

Location

Creswick-Newstead Road,Creswick, HEPBURN SHIRE

File Number

Original Hermes No: 79214

Level

Statement of Significance

Register of the National Estate:
Nominator's Statement of Significance: The Creswick Avenue is neither as long nor as visually exciting as that at Ballarat. Nevertheless, this avenue makes a dominant landform feature in the low farming country. It is at the same time a poignant reminder of the emotions aroused by World War One. It carries, as few other elements in the shire do, a strong sense of the Imperial loyalties of the period. The choice of a growing avenue to mark the service of people in the shire itself suggests something of the sense of wartime achievements which must have inspired many in the shire well into the 1920s. It is a key visual reminder of the sentiments of a part of the local population during the 1920s. In a period in which the emotions aroused by the war are only recalled with difficulty, this site makes a powerful physical monument.

Significant Trees:
Ulmus x hollandica (Dutch Elm) for context: contribution to landscape, historical value: World War 1 x 285

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