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Raywood Channel Water Race

Location Whipstick Road, WHIPSTICK VIC 3556 - Property No 198895 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Raywood Water Race

Statement of Significance

The lack of water and the flatness of much of the landscape (which made storage dams difficult to construct) were factors influential in determining the progress of mining in the Whipstick area throughout most of the nineteenth century. Before the construction of this raceway the supply of water to such settlements as Sebastian, Neilborough and Raywood was also precarious. After its construction it provided a stimulus to mining at those sites in its proximity (e.g. Old Tom and Flagstaff Hill)(criterion A) . The site also has potential to illustrate aspects of Victoria's cultural heritage due to the intactness of the raceway and linking together of sites representative of mining in the Whipstick (criterion C).