NORTH WEST VICTORIA HISTORIC MINING PLOTS (CASTLEMAINE) 1850-1980 Historic Notes
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NORTH WEST VICTORIA HISTORIC MINING PLOTS (CASTLEMAINE) 1850-1980 Historic Notes David Bannear Heritage Victoria CONTENTS: Zone Index 3 Zone 1 7 Zone 2 95 Zone 3 147 Zone 4 178 Zone 5 199 Zone 6 236 Zone 7 258 Zone 8 283 Zone 9 300 ZONE INDEX ZONE 1: GOLDEN GULLY/FRYERSTOWN 1.1 Golden Gully 1.2 Golden Point (Fryers Ck) 1.3 Heron's Reef 1.4 Ferron's Reef 1.5 Clark's Reef 1.6 Crocodile Gully Reservoir 1.7 Crocodile Creek 1.8 Lucky Strike Reef 1.9 Commissioner's Flat & Gully 1.10 Cattle's Reef 1.11 Fryerstown 1.12 Windlass Hill and Flat 1.13 Deadman's Flat/Gully 1.14 Bellevue 1.15 Nuggetty Gully/Irishtown 1.16 Burying Ground Flat 1.17 Long Gully 1.18 Paddy's Gully 1.19 Brown's Gully/Reef 1.20 Rocky Gully 1.21 Devil's Gully ZONE 2: SPECIMEN HILL/EUREKA/SPRING GULLY 2.1 Vineyard Reef 2.2 Monk's Hill/Reef 2.3 Eureka Reef 2.4 Cobbler's Gully 2.5 Californian Gully 2.6 Higging's Reef 2.7 Specimen Hill/Eldorado 2.8 Bullock Reef 2.9 Cemetery Reef 2.10 Two Foot/Lost Gully 2.11 Goat's Gully 2.12 Bristol Reef 2.13 Blacksmith Reef/Gully 2.14 Prince of Wales Reef 2.15 Spring Gully/Flat & Emu Reef. 2.16 Irish Reef 2.17 Abraham's Gully 2.18 Church's Flat 2.19 Horseshoe Bend 2.20 Murdering Flat 2.21 Chokem Flat 2.22 Red Hill 2.23 New Year's Flat 2.24 Sullivan's Hill 2.25 Daphne Reef 2.26 Long Gully 2.27 United Reef 2.28 Joe's Gully 2.29 Specimen Gully 2.30 Bindon Reef 2.31 Chapel Hill Reef 2.32 Rocky Gully ZONE 3: VAUGHAN AND LOWER LODDON 3.1 Vaughan 3.2 Hit-or-Miss Reef 3.3 Bald Hill 3.4 Sailor's Hill 3.5 Butcher's Hill 3.6 Kangaroo or Hard Hill/ Kangaroo Creek & Kangaroo/Boddy's Reef 3.7 Ballarat/Jackson's Hill 3.8 Scotch Point/Gully 3.9 Table Hill 3.10 Tarilta 3.11 Oven Gully 3.12 Butcher's Gully 3.13 Sailor's Gully 3.14 Liverpool/Greenwood's Reef 3.15 Middleton Creek 3.16 Sebastopol Gully/ 3.17 Adelaide Reef 3.18 Holcombe Sebastopol Reef 3.19 Green Gully 3.20 Glenluce 3.21 Heron's Hill 3.22 Rae's Hill 3.23 Smyth's Hill 3.24 Kitto's Hill 3.25 Verdon's Hill 3.26 Buscombe's Hill 3.27 Stone's Gully 3.28 Italian's Hill 3.29 Patten's Reef 3.30 Salter's Creek 3.31 Shicer's Hill/Gully ZONE 4: MOPOKE/STRATHLODDON/GUILDFORD 4.1 Nil Desperandum Reef 4.2 German Gully 4.3 Cornish & Spanish or Tarr's Reef 4.4 Mopoke Reef/Gully 4.5 Frenchman's Reef 4.6 Champion Reef 4.7 Pennyweight Flat/Hill 4.8 Capper's Reef 4.9 Strathloddon 4.10 Taylor's Paddock (Yapeen) 4.11 Guildford Hill 4.12 Guildford 4.13 Guildford Plateau/Loddon Valley 4.14 Pickpocket/Hard Hill 4.15 Donkey Gully 4.16 Bald Hill 4.17 Boots Gully 4.18 Rabbit Flat 4.19 Shicer Hill ZONE 5: CAMPBELL'S CREEK 5.1 Campbell's Ck (General) 5.2 Preshaw's Flat 5.3 Winter's Flat 5.4 Diamond Flat/Hill/Gully 5.5 Lushington Hill/Gully 5.6 Adelaide Hill 5.7 Seventy Foot Hill/Flat 5.8 Hard Hill 5.9 Forty Foot Hill 5.10 John O'Groat's Flat 5.11 Cemetery Flat 5.12 White Hill/Flat/Rf 5.13 Crow Gully 5.14 Little/Specimen Gully 5.15 Bolivia/Ajax Reef 5.16 New Chum Gully 5.17 Dead Horse Gully 5.18 Specimen Flat 5.19 Cumberland Reef 5.20 Nuggety/Poverty Reef 5.21 Little Nuggety Reef 5.22 Tarr's Gully 5.23 Dutch/Diechman's Reef 5.24 Nuggety Gully 5.25 Railway Gully 5.26 Poverty Flat 5.27 Slaughteryd Hill/Gully 5.28 Cabbage Garden Flat 5.29 Red Hill/Flat 5.30 Italian Hill/Gully 5.31 Hobby's Flat 5.32 Cheshire Flat 5.33 Poverty Gully 5.34 Skeen's Gully/Reef 5.35 Victoria Reef 5.36 New Year's Gully 5.37 Heard's Reef 5.38 Mysterious Reef 5.39 Burial Hill 5.40 Blanket Hill/Gully 5.41 Doctor's Hill 5.42 Switzerland Reef 5.43 Hargrave's Hill 5.44 Volunteer Reef 5.45 Wightman's Flat ZONE 6: CASTLEMAINE/FOREST CREEK 6.1 Town of Castlemaine 6.2 Forest Creek (General) 6.3 Town or Commercial Reef 6.4 Forty Foot Hill 6.5 Clinker's Hill 6.6 Victoria Gully/Caledonia Reef 6.7 Ten Foot Hill 6.8 Aberdeen Hill/Gully 6.9 Scott's Hill 6.10 Scott's Gully 6.11 Meredith Reef 6.12 Champion Reef 6.13 Little Bendigo Gully 6.14 Humbug Gully 6.15 Little Bendigo Reef 6.16 Coombs' Gully 6.17 Wesley Flat/Hill 6.18 Red Hill 6.19 White Hill 6.20 Little White Hill 6.21 Kampf's Gully/Reef 6.22 White's Gully 6.23 Montgomery Hill/Gully 6.24 Rubio Reef 6.25 Iron Hill 6.26 Steel's Flat 6.27 Steel's Gully 6.28 London Reef ZONE 7: SPECIMEN/MOONLIGHT/PENNYWEIGHT 7.1 Barker's Creek (General) 7.2 Specimen Gully/Reef 7.3 Launceston Flat/Gully 7.4 Capper's Reef 7.5 Aplin's Reef 7.6 Long Gully 7.7 Belltopper Reef 7.8 Cranky Ned's Reef 7.9 Shellback Reef 7.10 Turnbull/Warren's Reef 7.11 Hermits Reef 7.12 Lauriston Reef 7.13 Gordon's Reef 7.14 Lady Barkly Reef 7.15 Granite Reef 7.16 Specimen Flat 7.17 Rigby's Hill 7.18 Union Gully 7.19 Hard Hill 7.20 Wattle Gully 7.21 Launceston Reef 7.22 Heinriech/Henrick's Reef 7.23 Devonshire Gullly/Reef 7.24 Tongue's/Fortuna Reef 7.25 Nathan's Gully 7.26 Milkman's Flat/Gully 7.27 Mosquito Gully/Reef 7.28 Black Jack/Hickman's Gy 7.29 Uncle Billy's Gully 7.30 Harcourt 7.31 Mount Alexander Reef 7.32 Chinaman's Flat ZONE 8: MOONLIGHT/PENNYWEIGHT FLATS 8.1 Napier's Reef 8.2 Lady Gully 8.3 Nicholson's Gully 8.4 Racehorse Gully/Reef or 8.5 Nicholson's Reef 8.6 Lucknow/Nthmberland Rf German Banner Reef 8.7 Dog Leg Gully/Reef 8.8 Sebastopol Reef 8.9 Shicer Gully/Hill 8.10 Lever/Lion Point 8.11 Moonlight Flat 8.12 Moonlight Reef 8.13 Hundredweight Gully/Hill 8.14 Fiddler's Reef 8.15 Pennyweight Flat 8.16 Burns's Gully 8.17 Cemetery Gully/Reef 8.18 Great Britain Reef 8.19 Greaterox Reef 8.20 Jumper's Reef 8.21 Dirty Dick's Gully 8.22 Magenta Reef 8.23 Shicer's/Cadzow Reef ZONE 9: GOLDEN POINT/CHEWTON 9.1 Quartz Hill/Reef 9.2 Scotchman's Gully or 9.3 No Name Reef Little Quartz Hill/Reef 9.4 Trewartha Reef 9.5 Sailor's Gully/Flat 9.6 Little Sailor's Gully 9.7 Englishman's Gully/Reef 9.8 Dead Cat/Sailor's/ 9.9 South American Reef Garfield Reef 9.10 Sheepshead Gully/Reef 9.11 German Gully/Reef 9.12 Walker's Reef 9.13 Vale's/Tambaroora Reef 9.14 Manchester Flat 9.15 Manchester Reef 9.16 Argus Hill/Central Reef 9.17 Golden Point (General) 9.18 Expedition/Mitchell's Pass 9.19 Nimrod/Donkey Reef 9.20 Burns/Welcome Reef 9.21 Little Burns' Hill/Rf 9.22 Diamond Reef 9.23 Golden Gully 9.24 Donkey Gully 9.25 Deadman's Gully 9.26 Shicer Gully 9.27 Commissioner's Glly 9.28 Tipperary Flat/Gully 9.29 Trapp's Gully 9.30 Trapp's Reef 9.31 Black Monday Reef 9.32 Coach Flat 9.33 Esmond's Reef 9.34 British American Reef 9.35 Bonnet Flat 9.36 Scramble Gully 9.37 Town of Chewton 9.38 Break-of-Day Reef 9.39 Pioneer Reef 9.40 New Chum Gully 9.41 Argus Flat 9.42 Chewton Reef 9.43 Poverty Gully 9.44 Poverty Reef 9.45 Poverty Hill 9.46 Little/Red Hill/Gully/Rf 9.47 Golden Gully 9.48 Chapel Hill Reef 9.49 Old P.O. Hill Gully/Reef 9.50 Brice's Hill 9.51 Hard Hill/Reef 9.52 Prospect Hill 9.53 Charcoal Gully 9.54 Surveyor's Reef 9.55 Adelaide Flat 9.56 Adelaide Hill 9.57 Butcher's Gully 9.58 Adelaide Gully 9.59 Wattle Flat 9.60 Wattle Gully 9.61 Deadman's Gully 9.62 Deadman's Reef 9.63 Long Gully 9.64 Mona Reef 9.65 Three Speck Gully 9.66 Whitehorse Gully/Flat/Reef or Reservoir Reef & Dinah Flat 9.67 Crocodile Reef 9.68 Blarney Reef GAZETTEER ZONE 1: GOLDEN GULLY/FRYERSTOWN ZONE INDEX: 1.1 Golden Gully 1.2 Golden Point (Fryers Ck) 1.3 Heron's Reef 1.4 Ferron's Reef 1.5 Clark's Reef 1.6 Crocodile Gully Reservoir 1.7 Crocodile Creek 1.8 Lucky Strike 1.9 Commissioner's Flat & Gully 1.10 Cattle's Reef 1.11 Fryerstown 1.12 Windlass Hill and Flat 1.13 Deadman's Flat/Gully 1.14 Bellevue 1.15 Nuggetty Gully/Irishtown 1.16 Burying Ground Flat 1.17 Long Gully 1.18 Paddy's Gully 1.19 Brown's Gully/Reef 1.20 Rocky Gully 1.21 Devil's Gully _____________________________________________________________________ _______ 1.1 GOLDEN GULLY _____________________________________________________________________ ________ Mining Division Fryer's Creek Associated Fields/Reefs Golden Gully, Heron's, Ferron's, German, Cattle's Reefs _____________________________________________________________________ _________ DATE HISTORY 8 March 1852 The Golden Gully is nearly worked out, and the carriage to the Loddon is far more trouble and expense than the general value of the remaining soil warrants.