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Eyton-on-Yarra

Other Name Dalry Location 534-662 Healesville Kooweerup Road, HEALESVILLE VIC 3777 - Property No 82272/3/4 File Number 216 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

Eyton-on-Yarra, earlier known as Dalry, has high local signficance for its associations with the pastoral era and with the Ryrie brothers, overlanders from NSW, who came to the area in the late 1830s. The property has been a large grazing property for more than 150 years and is one of Yarra Ranges' historic pre-emptive right properties. The former Dalry has historical significance for its associations with a number of prominent district families. These include the Symes from the 1890s until the First World War; the Forsyths from World War I until about 1936; and Henry Lindsay - Field, one of Australia's wealthiest pastoralists, who ran a successful Hereford cattle stud and Southdown sheep stud there from the mid-1930s, and gave the property its present name. The property, with its large house and mature plantings is significant as a visible and recognised landmark within the local district.