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Places and This is an excellent stretch for your Elgar Rd Points of Interest legs with a riverside walk through Eastern Fwy Park Rd bushy parkland, often accompanied by kangaroos, leading to a steep climb to Templestowe Village. This is Location Public Transport a good walk for friends, couples and Start and finish at Finns Reserve, Metlink: t 131 638 active families. www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au Walk, Talk and Coffee Manningham City Council Templestowe. 699 Doncaster Road Time Ventura Buses: t 9488 2100 Melway Reference to Doncaster 3108 2 hrs www.venturabus.com.au 33 C4 t 03 9840 9333 f 03 9848 3110 Distance Templestowe Village Walk Parking e [email protected] 5 kms www.manningham.vic.gov.au Wood Street carpark, Finns Reserve, Difficulty Templestowe. This brochure is printed on Australian made, Medium 100 per cent recycled Tudor RP carbon neutral paper which has helped reduce global greenhouse Accessibility gas emissions by more than 110kgs CO2-e. Unsuitable

The trail crosses the while traversing riverine eucalypt forests and open grasslands. Kangaroos, wombats and echidnas are often seen along these tracks. Kookaburras can be heard from the treetops. After exiting Westerfolds Park you head straight up a steep climb along Milne Street. Don’t complain, the locals do it all the time! It is worth it as it Facilities Be Prepared Additional Walks Wheelchair Access Drinking fountain, playground, toilets, Sun protection recommended There are 20 walks in the series to We have developed three walks brings you into the ambient cafés, retail therapy. Carry water. choose from. If you liked this walk, specifically for wheelchairs. Look for Templestowe Village. Cake, you might like the ones listed below: A Wheel Pleasure pamphlet. Hazards Days of total fire ban Fitness at Finns and coffee, and plenty more await Take care at road crossings Images Check the fire risk warning before Walking Westerfolds Doncaster Templestowe Historical you before embracing several There are no footpaths, take care embarking on this walk: Finns Reserve to Society Inc. historical points of interest. on the roads. www.cfa.vic.gov.au Westerfolds Park Walk Mr Garth Kendall Collection The walk then heads downhill Petty’s Fruits and You Beaut Eucs Council Database to Ruffey Creek and back to Petty’s Orchard and Riverside Walk. your starting point. Your walk begins at the Yarra River Walk behind the Leisure Centre towards Parking (incl. disabled parking) suspension bridge. the former Templestowe Primary School in the centre of the grounds. Public toilets Wombat Bend Playspace is to your left, but it might be a good idea to do the Picnic area walk first. Children don’t usually like to leave Wombat Bend. Playground Motor Works, corner James The Suspension Bridge and Anderson streets The suspension bridge is a marvel in William Hunter built the blacksmith shop itself. It is worth stopping briefly just here in 1878. He repaired carriages and 10 to enjoy the serenity that exists shod horses. Templestowe Primary School whenever you are near flowing water. Templestowe Primary School No. 1395 Sylvester Mullens took over the business Water releases negative ions that have was opened in 1874, two years after in 1900 and taught his son, Jack to be a positive effect on mood and health. the State Government declared an expert farrier. In 1927, they built the Breathe them in — you have a few education free and compulsory. Motor Works you see today. It catered kilometres to go before you can rest Templestowe was built to a template to the popular motorcar trade as well as with a coffee. designed for a single 120 pupil blacksmithing. Jack Mullens shod horses classroom. The room was cavernous here for 63 years before his retirement River Banks with windows placed high to cater in 1970. The original roof trusses are There is a revegetation area along the for tiered seating. Multiple classes displayed inside. banks of the river. You will see the were taught in the one space with native Kangaroo Apple growing here Former General Store few resources offered to teachers, easily distinguished by long dark green Keeps Corner; this corner is much and students squashed onto long ▼Westerfolds foliage that actually look like the feet of changed, but is special to the locals. backless benches. Park a kangaroo! The plant produces a small The site was formally a General Store fig shaped fruit that turns bright orange. Head down Parker Street. built around 1914. The store served the The colour is a warning — stay away district for 50 years. The last owners 11 I am poisonous! were Jack and Ethel Keep — thus the Your walk now joins the Ruffey Creek Native Fauna area became known as Keeps Corner. path. You could walk all the way to Time for kangaroo spotting. Look for Look for the Heidelberg School Artists Ruffey Lake Park from here by following Eastern Grey Kangaroos who favour Trail sign. David Davies lived and the little creek. ▼Yarra Valley open grasslands near protective Parklands painted in Templestowe between Turn to your right, carefully cross the woodland. These gregarious animals 1894 and 1897. He created Moonrise road and pick up the path next to the move in large mobs. You will see them here, a romantic impression of bowls lawn. The track winds behind at dawn and dusk or by day in the evening twilight. Melissa’s Cakes Café Bar and finishes cooler months. If you can’t see them This is the time to find that coffee. at your starting point. look for their ears poking up from There are plenty of options. Dallas Ave Porter St the tussock grasses. This finishes your walk. Time to relax and plan your next adventure. Up ahead a dirt track will cross your Mechanics’ Institute Unwin St sealed path. Turn right. The Mechanics’ Institute was founded here in 1882, in the wooden building Billabongs to the rear of this one. The brick building Atkinson St The little tributary here runs into the was constructed 40 years later. nearby Yarra River. Small inlets like this Mechanics’ institutes were once the Finns Reserve are vital to nourish the surrounding backbone of learning for working men Mahoney St Wood St landscape. They flood and create and artisans offering a library, lectures James St McLachlan St

Milne St marshes and swampland, or change and demonstrations. They began in Anderson St James St course and create billabongs. These 1823. Of the 4,000 remaining institutes Parker St places were also vital to the survival in the Commonwealth and United States of a local Indigenous group, the 1,000 are found here in Victoria.

Omar St . Murnong (native yam daisy) They remain ‘for the community, Ruffey St Parker St Foote St was a tasty tuber that grew in riverine by the community’. habitats like this, but was largely Take any of the pathways into destroyed by the heavy hoofs of Foote St the Manningham Templestowe wandering cattle. Leisure Centre. This completes your bushland

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