Newlyn, Victoria

According to Placenames Victoria, Newlyn is considered to be named after the Cornish village of St Newlyn East by the descendants of Cornish families who settled in the town during the Victorian gold rush. Houses in Newlyn were also given the names of other settlements in the English county.{{Cite web |date=September 2003 |title=Cornish Place Names in Victoria |url=http://home.vicnet.net.au/~caov/placnams/placnams.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720025720/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~caov/placnams/placnams.htm |archive-date=July 20, 2008 |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Placenames Australia |publisher=Australian National Placenames Survey |quote= |location=Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales}} The town may also be named after another town in Cornwall named Newlyn.{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=NEWLYN |url=https://www.victorianplaces.com.au/newlyn |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Victorian Places |publisher=Monash University; The University of Queensland}}

In the mid-1850s, alluvial gold was now harder to find because of the Victorian gold rush. Miners from nearby Creswick—many of whom were of the Methodist church—settled in the Newlyn area after finding it was suitable for farming.

Two post offices were opened in the following years. One was named the Bella Vue Post Office before it moved to the railway station and renamed the Newlyn Railway Station Post Office. When this post office was relocated to J. Walton's store in 1915, sixty residents signed a petition to rename it the Newlyn Post Office.{{Cite news |date=2 February 1915 |title=NEWLYN. THE POST OFFICES. |pages=2 |work=Creswick Advertiser |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/119520747 |via=Trove}} The other post office in the north, conducted by J. Williams, had operated as the Newlyn Post Office ever since it had opened 46 years prior.{{Cite news |date=5 February 1915 |title=WHAT'S IN A NAME. |pages=1 |work=The Ballarat Star |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/154585284 |via=Trove}} Although 118 people signed a counter-petition to retain the name of Williams' post office, the Postmaster-General renamed it Newlyn North, much to the anger of the northern residents.

Newlyn Station was on a branch line of the Mildura railway line from North Creswick to Daylesford which closed in 1953.

Newlyn has a general store, a hotel, a hall and a primary school. The Post Office opened on 10 September 1864.{{Citation |last=Premier Postal History |title=Post Office List |url=https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= |accessdate=2008-04-11}} A mechanics' institute was opened in 1886, which became the site of the Newlyn Antiques and Nursery. In 1890, Newlyn had two hotels, two churches, a free library (which would also become part of the Nursery) and a large produce store.{{Sfn|Tropman|Jacobs|McConville|Aitken|1990|p=39}}

Newlyn Antiques and Cottage Garden Nursery was owned by John and Faye Hungerford, who worked there for twenty-three years after buying the building in 1996. The site is composed of a number of historical buildings, including a cottage built in 1853, and a restorer’s shed and hall established in 1886, which housed the Mechanics' Institute and Free Library. The couple retired in 2019 and Faye died in May 2022.{{Cite web |last=Elg |first=Hayley |date=February 13, 2019 |title=Time to retire: Newlyn Antiques and Cottage Garden Nursery proprietors retiring after 23 years |url=https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/5901842/for-the-love-of-antiques/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Courier |publisher=Australian Community Media |location=Ballarat, Victoria}}{{Cite web |last=Groenhout |first=Narelle |date=July 3, 2022 |title=A tribute to Dear Fay |url=https://tlnews.com.au/a-tribute-to-dear-fay/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Local |location=Central Highlands, Victoria}}

The Newlyn Recreation Reserve is located on the Midland Highway outside Newlyn. While the land was initially donated by a farming family in the 1950s, the current building was completed in 1991. It serves as a venue for community meetings and sports clubs, as it contains the oval and netball courts.{{Cite web |last=Kirkham |first=Rochelle |date=August 10, 2022 |title=Community hub that is helping to bring people together a labour of love in Newlyn |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-25/newlyn-primary-school-historical-bell-stolen/101573384 |access-date=April 2, 2023 |website=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |location=Ballarat, Victoria}}

Newlyn Primary School was established in 1858 as a Wesleyan school. It became a state school (no. 453) in 1861 and a common school in 1862, and took its current name in 1970.{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=150 years: Newlyn Primary School |url=https://www.vic.gov.au/150-years-newlyn-primary-school |access-date=April 2, 2023 |website=Victorian Department of Education and Training}} The 1887 brick building has been retained, and the school also has a garden with several animals and a 1930s piano. It has faced closure from declining enrolment and funding and is maintained by community volunteers.{{Cite web |last=Groenhout |first=Narelle |date=May 23, 2021 |title=The little school that could |url=https://tlnews.com.au/the-little-school-that-could/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Local |location=Central Highlands, Victoria}}{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Michelle |date=February 6, 2021 |title=Four generations of the Richardson family have been pupils at Newlyn Primary School |url=https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/7113321/family-ties-bind-at-newlyn-primary-school/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Courier |publisher=Australian Community Media |location=Ballarat, Victoria}} Samantha Vella has acted as the school principal since 2018 and is one of two teachers. As of 2021, Newlyn Primary School has eighteen students, an increase from six in 2018. The school received local coverage in October 2022 when the school bell, built in the late 1880s, which students would ring at the end of every break, was stolen.{{Cite web |last=Jeuniewic |first=Lexie |last2=Chvastek |first2=Nicole |date=October 25, 2022 |title=Newlyn Primary School pleads for thieves to return 150-year-old bell |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-25/newlyn-primary-school-historical-bell-stolen/101573384 |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |location=Ballarat, Victoria}}{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Michelle |date=October 25, 2022 |title=Thieves steal historic Newlyn Primary School bell |url=https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/7955131/thieves-steal-priceless-historic-primary-school-bell/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Courier |publisher=Australian Community Media |location=Ballarat, Victoria}}

The Newlyn Football Netball Club plays in the Central Highlands Football League.{{Citation |last=Full Points Footy |title=Newlyn |url=http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/Newlyn.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724162814/http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/newlyn.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=24 July 2008 |accessdate=2008-07-25}}

The Coronet City-Newlyn Cricket Club is the town's cricket club. During the 1950s and 60s, the area was in the Newlyn Cricket Association, but faced demise as sides joined other associations and cricket became more popular in Ballarat. They won a premiership in the 90s but were in recess for two years. Its president is Craig Slater, who has been involved in the club for around forty-five years, and its captain is Ben Dimond.{{Cite web |last=Cluff |first=Caleb |date=August 14, 2022 |title=Facing demise, the Newlyn Cricket Club fought back to keep the game alive |url=https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/7856661/how-newlyn-kept-its-cricket-club-alive/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Courier |publisher=Australian Community Media |location=Ballarat, Victoria}}{{Cite web |last=Cluff |first=Caleb |date=August 9, 2022 |title=New cricket nets are a King hit in Newlyn |url=https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/7852272/cricket-nets-for-newlyn-reserve-are-a-hit/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Courier |publisher=Australian Community Media |location=Ballarat, Victoria}} The Newlyn Cricket Club used to play in the Daylesford Cricket Association before it folded. It survived by becoming part of the Coronet City Cricket Club and joining the Ballarat Cricket Association in 2012.{{Cite web |last=Nolan |first=Pat |date=November 2, 2012 |title=Newlyn Cricket Club lives on to play with Coronet City |url=https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/563419/newlyn-cricket-club-lives-on-to-play-with-coronet-city/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Courier |publisher=Australian Community Media |location=Ballarat, Victoria}}

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• {{Cite book |last=Lynes |first=E.T. |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/70611 |title=A history of Newlyn |publisher=Loftset Press |year=1987 |isbn=1862529132 |location=Ballarat, Victoria |language=en}}
• {{Cite book |last=Tropman |first=Lester |url=https://www.hepburn.vic.gov.au/files/assets/public/building-amp-planning/documents/sp-creswick-shire-heritage-study.pdf |title=Creswick Shire Heritage Study |last2=Jacobs |first2=Wendy |last3=McConville |first3=Chris |last4=Aitken |first4=Richard |date=December 1990 |publisher=Prepared for the National Estate Committee (Victoria) and Shire of Creswick |location=Creswick Shire, Victoria |format=PDF |access-date=October 25, 2022}}

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