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WARDLE'S WATER RACE

Location

EAST AND WEST OF OSBORNE ROAD, CURRY'S HILL, WOMBAT STATE FOREST

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Remaining sections of the race located in the Wombat State Forest , east of Osborne Road
How is it significant?
Early relic of the Victorian gold rushes
Why is it significant?
Race is significant due to its age (late 1850s/early 1860s) and association with Edward Wardle, a notable mid 19th-century water race entrepreneur

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Water Race