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Mount Rothwell
Mount Rothwell
	Mount Rothwell
	Coordinates: 37°52′52″S 144°26′29″E / 37.88112°S 144.44142°E
Country	Australia
State	Victoria
LGAs	City of Greater Geelong; City of Wyndham;
Location	51 km (32 mi) from Melbourne; 31 km (19 mi) from Geelong;
Established	1850
Government
• State electorates	Werribee; Lara;
• Federal divisions	Corio; Lalor;
Elevation	22 m (72 ft)
Postcode	3211
	Localities around Mount Rothwell

Mount Rothwell is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located to the north east of the You Yangs hills, between Bacchus Marsh and Werribee.

It is the location of the Mount Rothwell wildlife sanctuary and the historic Mount Rothwell homestead, built in 1873 for Pastoralist Robert Chirnside, (listed on the Victorian Heritage Register (H1107),^[1] inherited on his father's death in 1918 by his grandson Dr James Chirnside, and occupied by the Chirnside family until about 2000.^[2]

The homestead was used for filming of the 2003 Ned Kelly,^[3] and was purchased in 2000 along with the estate by the Mount Rothwell Biodiversity Interpretation Centre.^[4]

Nearby is the Mount Rothwell Aboriginal stone arrangement known as Wurdi Youang^[5] and the ruins of the Mount Rothwell Hotel.^[6]

References

↑ Mount Rothwell Homestead, Victorian Heritage Database place details - 21/6/2016
↑ Ronald, Heather. 1978, Wool Past the Winning Post: A History of the Chirnside Family, Landvale Enterprises, Melbourne.
↑ "Mt Rothwell Homestead". Old estates for sale. Retrieved 15 August 2019. ^{[unreliable source?]}
↑ "Little River Earth Sanctuary Story". Archived from the original on 28 August 2005. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
↑ Lane, L. and Fullagar, R. (1980) Previously unrecorded Aboriginal stone alignments in Victoria. Records of the Victoria Archaeological Survey, No. 10, pp. 134-151
↑ "Ruins of Mt. Rothwell Hotel, Little River," Wyndham History, accessed 23 October 2016

External links

Australian Places site

[1] Mount Rothwell Homestead, Victorian Heritage Database place details - 21/6/2016

[2] Ronald, Heather. 1978, Wool Past the Winning Post: A History of the Chirnside Family, Landvale Enterprises, Melbourne.

[old_estates-3] "Mt Rothwell Homestead". Old estates for sale. Retrieved 15 August 2019. ^{[unreliable source?]}

[official-4] "Little River Earth Sanctuary Story". Archived from the original on 28 August 2005. Retrieved 8 October 2015.

[5] Lane, L. and Fullagar, R. (1980) Previously unrecorded Aboriginal stone alignments in Victoria. Records of the Victoria Archaeological Survey, No. 10, pp. 134-151

[6] "Ruins of Mt. Rothwell Hotel, Little River," Wyndham History, accessed 23 October 2016

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Locality	Bellarine Breamlea^ Mannerim Marcus Hill Moorabool Point Wilson Staughton Vale Swan Bay
^ - Territory divided with another LGA

v t e Localities in the City of Wyndham
City	Hoppers Crossing Manor Lakes Point Cook Tarneit Truganina^ Werribee Wyndham Vale
Town	Eynesbury^ Laverton^ Little River^ Mambourin Mount Cottrell^ Werribee South Williams Landing
Locality	Cocoroc Laverton North Quandong
^ - Territory divided with another LGA

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