Allendale, Victoria

{{Infobox Australian place

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| name = Allendale

| state = vic

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| lga = Shire of Hepburn

| postcode = 3364

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| pop = 166

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}

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| fedgov = Ballarat

| dist1 = 140

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| location1= Melbourne

| dist2 = 26

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Allendale (aka Allandale) is a town in Victoria, Australia, located north-east of Creswick, in the Shire of Hepburn. At the {{CensusAU|2016}}, Allendale and the surrounding area had a population of 166.{{Census 2016 AUS

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|name=Allendale (State Suburb)

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The town began as a mining settlement around the Berry Leads mining area. It had a peak population of about 1,500. Allendale once had ten hotels, railway station, post office, bakery, and shops, all of which have closed.{{cite web | publisher=Victorian Places | url=http://www.victorianplaces.com.au/allendale | title=Allendale | access-date=28 November 2016}} The small boarding school located in Leishman Street was sold in 2005.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Allendale Post Office opened on 6 May 1881, was known as Allandale from 1885 to 1893, and closed in 1974.{{Citation

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Allendale Railway Station was on the North Creswick to Daylesford line. The railway closed in sections with Allendale to Newlyn closed on 1 December 1976, and from North Creswick to Allendale on 8 December 1986.{{cite web | title=North Creswick to Daylesford | url=http://www.victorianrailways.net/grades/creswickdayle/creswickdalegrad.html| access-date=28 November 2016}}

Sports

;Allendale Football Club

The Allendale FC was formed at a meeting at Dibdin's Hall, Allendale in June 1882.{{cite web |title=1882 - Allendale |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202122255 |publisher=The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) |access-date=29 June 2024 |page=3 |date=5 June 1882}} The club had a reasonable amount of success in its early years, winning local premiership in 1892,{{cite web |title=1892 - Allendale |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204988237 |publisher=The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) |access-date=27 June 2024 |page=4 |date=5 October 1892}} 1895,{{cite web |title=1895 - Allendale |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203766860 |publisher=The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) |access-date=27 June 2024 |page=1 |date=30 November 1895}}{{cite web |title=1895 - The Ballarat Star (Grand Final Review) |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203764484 |publisher=The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) |access-date=27 June 2024 |page=2 |date=15 October 1895}}{{cite web |title=1895 - Ballarat Star (Grand final Preview) |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203764306 |publisher=The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) |access-date=27 June 2024 |page=2 |date=11 October 1895}}{{cite web |title=1895 - The Ballarat Star (Grand Final Preview) |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203764367/21287321 |publisher=The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) |access-date=27 June 2024 |page=2 |date=12 October 1895}} 1897{{cite web |title=1897 - Allendale |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/215316900 |publisher=The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) |access-date=28 June 2024 |page=2 |date=14 September 1897}}{{cite web |title=1897 - Allendale |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/215314741 |publisher=The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) |access-date=28 June 2024 |page=1 |date=4 August 1897}} and were runners up in 1894{{cite web |title=1894 - Notes (Grand Final Review) |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/227717069 |publisher=Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904) |access-date=27 June 2024 |page=6 |date=28 August 1894}} and 1907.{{cite web |title=1907 - Football: Creswick |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10133139# |publisher=The Argus |access-date=21 June 2024 |page=6 |date=14 October 1907}}{{cite web |title=1907 - Country Football |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204994402 |publisher=The Age |access-date=21 June 2024 |page=8 |date=8 October 1907}}

References

External links

[https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/53c616582162f114fcaf500f Photo of Allendale Railway Station, 1922]
[https://ballaratpubs.miraheze.org/wiki/Allendale History of Allendale]

Category:Towns in Victoria (state)

Category:Mining towns in Victoria (state)