Healesville, Victoria

Healesville
Victoria

The Grand Hotel at Healesville

Healesville

Coordinates

37°39′22″S 145°30′50″E / 37.65611°S 145.51389°ECoordinates: 37°39′22″S 145°30′50″E / 37.65611°S 145.51389°E

Population

6,839 (2011 census)

Established

1864

Postcode(s)

3777

Elevation

199 m (653 ft)

Location

52 km (32 mi) from Melbourne
22 km (14 mi) from Lilydale

LGA(s)

Shire of Yarra Ranges

Mean max temp	Mean min temp	Annual rainfall
19.2 °C ^{67 °F}	8 °C ^{46 °F}	1,020.1 mm ^{40.2 in}

Localities around Healesville:
Chum Creek	Toolangi	Narbethong
Dixons Creek Tarrawarra	Healesville	McMahons Creek
Coldstream Gruyere	Badger Creek Woori Yallock	Don Valley

Healesville is a town in Victoria, Australia, 52 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2011 Census, Healesville had a population of 6,839.

Healesville is situated on the Watts River, a tributary of the Yarra River.

The creation of a railway to the more distant Gippsland and Yarra Valley goldfields in the 1860s resulted in a settlement forming on the Watts River and its survey as a town in 1864. It was named after Richard Heales, the Premier of Victoria from 1860–1861. The post office opened on 1 May 1865. The town became a setting off point for the Woods Point Goldfield with the construction of the Yarra Track in the 1870s.

Healesville is well known for the Healesville Sanctuary, a nature park with hundreds of native Australian animals displayed in a semi-open natural setting and an active platypus breeding program.

The Yarra Valley Railway operates from Healesville Station on every Sunday, most public holidays and Wednesday to Sunday during school holidays.

Schools in Healesville include the Healesville Primary School, St Brigid's Catholic primary school, the rural Chum Creek Primary School, Badger Creek Primary School, Healesville High School and Worawa Aboriginal College, an Aboriginal school whose former students include noted Australian Rules Footballer David Wirrpanda. Much of what is now Healesville lies on the ancestral land of the Wurundjeri people. The Coranderrk mission station, set up in 1863, is located just south of the main township.

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