White Hills, Victoria

White Hills Bendigo, Victoria
War memorial entry to the Botanical Gardens
White Hills
Coordinates	36°44′S 144°18′E / 36.733°S 144.300°E / -36.733; 144.300Coordinates: 36°44′S 144°18′E / 36.733°S 144.300°E / -36.733; 144.300
Population	3,275 (2011 census)
Postcode(s)	3550
Location	4 km (2 mi) N of Bendigo
LGA(s)	City of Greater Bendigo
State electorate(s)	Bendigo East
Federal Division(s)	Bendigo

White Hills is a suburb of the City of Bendigo in central Victoria, Australia. It is located 4 kilometres north-west of the city centre.

Its name came about from the colour of the clay which was exposed by gold miners at that part of the Bendigo diggings.

The Bendigo Creek, the site of the first gold find, runs upstream through White Hills.

At the 2011 census, White Hills had a population of 3,275.

White Hills Post Office opened on 21 August 1857 during the gold rush.

The Bendigo Jockey Club, a horse racing club, is based at the Bendigo racecourse in White Hills and the Bendigo Cup is run here in mid-November.

White Hills is home of the White Hills Cricket Club; there is a public swimming pool.

Weeroona College Bendigo, a co-educational secondary college catering for students in years 7 to 10, is located in the suburb.

The White Hills Cemetery was officially opened in 1854, but had been in use well before that. The Bendigo WS web site notes that

The White Hills Public Cemetery is regarded as significant because it is a substantially intact example of a mid nineteenth century gold-fields cemetery. The cemetery lies in a picturesque setting of curved pathways and has a number of significant and rare plantings."

Alfred Hampson (1864–1924) Labor MLA for Bendigo East and MHR for Bendigo was born in White Hills.

Thomas Flanagan (1832-1899) who found the first gold in Kalgoorlie in 1893, with his companions Paddy Hannan and Daniel Shea, is buried in the White Hills cemetery.

So is his nephew, Michael John Flannigan(1862-1901), after whom King Island's Lake Flannigan is named.