Mansfield, Victoria

Mansfield
Victoria

Police memorial with the Mansfield Hotel in the background

Mansfield

Coordinates

37°03′0″S 146°05′0″E / 37.05000°S 146.08333°ECoordinates: 37°03′0″S 146°05′0″E / 37.05000°S 146.08333°E

Population

4,360 (2011 census)

Postcode(s)

3722

Location

202 km (126 mi) NE of Melbourne
65 km (40 mi) S of Benalla
117 km (73 mi) E of Seymour

Mean max temp	Mean min temp	Annual rainfall
20.9 °C ^{70 °F}	5.1 °C ^{41 °F}	706.6 mm ^{27.8 in}

Mansfield is a small town in the foothills of the Victorian Alps in the Australian state of Victoria. It is approximately 180 kilometres (110 mi) north-east of Melbourne by road. The population of Mansfield was 4,360 as at the 2011 census.

Mansfield is the seat of the Mansfield local government area. Mansfield was formerly heavily dependent on farming and logging, but is now a tourist-centre. It is the support town for the large Australia ski resort Mount Buller. It is associated with the high country tradition of alpine grazing, celebrated in the film made around Mansfield, near the now famous Craigs Hut, called The Man from Snowy River (based on a poem by Banjo Paterson).

Mansfield, originally known as Mount Battery, was at the boundary of a number of pastoral runs, and a township was surveyed in 1851 and named after Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England. Settlement came after the discovery of gold nearby and the Post Office opened on 1 January 1858.

The railway to Mansfield arrived in the town from Tallarook in 1891, being closed on November 18, 1978. The last passenger service was on May 28, 1977.

The area round Mansfield named as Banbury was also the location of the novel The Far Country by Nevil Shute which featured logging on Mount Buller and previous forest fires, which having swept through Howqua obliterated almost all traces of a former settlement.

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