Locksley, Victoria
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Locksley is a locality in northern Victoria, Australia. The locality is located on the Longwood - Avenel Road (former Hume Highway in the Shire of Strathbogie local government area, {{convert|152|km|mi|0}} from the state capital, Melbourne). Locksley and the surrounding area have a population of 110. Locksley was originally called Burnt Creek and takes its name from Tennyson's Poem 'Locksley Hall'.[http://www.pmi.net.au/locksley.htm Prahran Mechanics Institute Library] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507134437/http://www.pmi.net.au/locksley.htm |date=7 May 2013 }}
History
Locksley was initially part of Henry Kent Hughes' Avenel pastoral station, taken up in the 1830s and early settlement occurred along Burnt Creek and the hills of Teneriffe. A Cobb & Co coach service along the Sydney to Melbourne road was established with a horse changing station at Barlow's Lagoon, about a mile from Locksley. The Locksley railway station opened in 1882 as Burnt Creek, (changing its name the following year as there was another station of that name in Victoria), with sidings serving up to five sawmills, which were supplying fire wood to Melbourne, and a local hall was built in 1887.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65690859 |title=LOCAL HISTORY COMPETITION. |newspaper=Euroa Advertiser (Vic. : 1884 - 1920) |location=Vic. |date=26 November 1920 |accessdate=10 June 2014 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}Ildie Houston. From Burnt Creek to Locksley [Longwood, Vic.] : I. Houston, 1988 In the summer of 1901 a large bush fire started near Locksley which resulted in destruction of many properties and in the following autumn and winter, severe soil erosion was caused in many of the creeks.[http://www.ewater.com.au/bushfire/downloads/1000015.pdf Jennifer Davis and Brian Finlayson, December 2000, Sand Slugs and Stream Degradation: The Case of the Granite Creeks, North-east Victoria, Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology Technical Report 7/2000] A post office opened on 1 May 1886, and briefly operated from the Railway station from 1910 to 1914, but closed on 29 September 1973.[http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Locksley* Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List] A butter factory operated for a short while but was closed down and finally sold for removal in 1899.[http://wiki.gvrlc.vic.gov.au/index.php/Locksley Locksley From WikiShepp: Documenting the History of the Goulburn Valley] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714133653/http://wiki.gvrlc.vic.gov.au/index.php/Locksley |date=14 July 2014 }}
The Locksley School (No 2648) opened in 1884, originally known as Monea North. The school closed for three weeks in 1899 due to a measles epidemic. It also experienced tragedy in 1898, when the 6-year-old son of Mr. J. H. Sharp died following being struck in the head by a makeshift see-saw.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70076167 |title=Death of a Schoolboy. |newspaper=Euroa Advertiser (Vic. : 1884 - 1920) |location=Vic. |date=23 September 1898 |accessdate=10 June 2014 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
Today
There are only a few buildings in Locksley today, with the station and school having closed in the 1970s. Locksley has a CFA rural Fire Brigade. Locksley Bushland Reserve has the southernmost occurrence of the rare plant Brachyscome muelleroides (Mueller Daisy).[http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/34159e87-935b-41a3-a3ae-a7934e3fa08c/files/brachyscome-muelleroides.pdf Alicia Lucas, 2010, National Recovery Plan for the Mueller Daisy Brachyscome muelleroides]
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