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Angliss Stock Bridge

Location near Ballarat Road FOOTSCRAY, Maribyrnong City File Number 20230 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/2] HO146(1) - Angliss Stock [2/2] HO146(2) - Angliss Stock

Statement of Significance

The Angliss Stock bridge is of historical and architectural significance to the region to the extent that it was a major part of the former stock route, which in its various components including the existing roads, laneways between the stock pens and the bridge itself, provided access between the saleyards and the various abattoirs, particularly the Angliss meatworks. (Criterion A3) This gives it a close association with one of the most important industries in the region.

With the demise and demolition of most of the meatworks in the Western Suburbs, it remains as a rare surviving fragment of that industry. As it was previously used as a footbridge over the Yarra it demonstrates an interesting engineering exercise. (Criterion A4)

The surviving avenue of Cypress trees on the west side provides an important landscape context. Along with the meat industry, the loss of the Newmarket saleyards means that droving cattle and sheep is no longer done in the urban context. This bridge and stock route is therefore the only reminder of this custom. (Criterion B2)

Australian Heritage Commission Criteria
A3 Importance in exhibiting unusual richness or diversity of flora, fauna, landscape or cultural features.
An important part of the cultural landscape of the area which was created by various elements of the meat and by-product industries.

A4 Importance for their association with events, developments or cultural phases which have had a significant role in the human occupation and evolution of the nation, state, region or community.
One of the few surviving structures which evoke the significant meat industry of the Municipality, now mostly
disappeared.

B2 Importance in demonstrating a distinctive way of life, custom, process, land-use, function or design no longer
practised, in danger of being lost, or of exceptional interest.
Along with the meat industry, the loss of the Newmarket saleyards means that droving cattle and sheep is no longer done in the urban context. This bridge and stock route is the only reminder of this custom.