BATESFORD FLOUR MILL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

The Batesford Flour Mill was built in 1857 by the Hope Brothers. The mill site retains the archaeological remains of a masonry and timber, flour mill, powered by a steam engine and water wheel. It has a 300m long water race and masonry dam on the Moorabool river, with the site of the millers cottage nearby.

Batesford Flour Mill is of historical and archaeological significance to the State of Victoria.

Batesford Flour Mill is of historical significance as evidence of the industrial endeavours that often were an intrinsic part of pastoral squatting activity and essential to the supply of goods to the your Port Phillip colony. the remains are of archaeological significance for their potential to reveal information on the design and technology employed in early industrial undertakings and the historical and social material of the people who operated and lived on the site.