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Pyrenees Highway

Location

ELPHINSTONE VIC 3448 - Property No L10138

File Number

L10138

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L10138 Pyrenees Highway

Statement of Significance

This main road climbs up from Forest Creek to Wesley Hill with its cluster of early buildings, then zig-zags into Chewton, where it follows the contour and displays a group of Classified public buildings and a string of simple brick cottages before crossing Lawson's Bridge and climbing up a broad ridge to Elphinstone.

The road is bordered by Long-leaf Box (E.goniocalyx) and Yellow Gum (E.leucoxylon) in a dense association along the rural stretches of the road. Exciting glimpses of the railway tunnel, bridges and embankments are also obtained.

The constantly curving roadway displays the landscape to advantage, and the interest of the journey is heightened by views which open and close.

This is a cultural landscape with a number of historic associations. The roadway, once a bullock wagon track, rolls and curves with the contours of the land.

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