Warburton (Victoria)

Warburton is a recreational and tourist resort with 1,946 inhabitants 75 km east of Melbourne in Victoria (Australia). The place belongs with 50 other settlements to 2460 km ² large rural administrative unit Yarra Ranges Shire, one of the so-called " Eastern Suburbs " of Melbourne

Until the 1880s, the place was called " Upper Warburton ". Only then was the original " Warburton " ( one named after the local mining inspector Charles Warburton Carr and heretofore "Yankee Jim's Creek " called gold mining settlement at Mount Little Joe, whose inhabitants Pays plummeted with the decline of gold mining ) in " Old Warburton " renamed, and from the former " Upper Warburton " was today's " Warburton ".

Warburton is set amidst the scenic hills of the Yarra Ranges, with beautiful views of the surrounding mountains; the 1,250 m high Mount Donna Buang is snowy in winter. The Yarra River, in the valley grown wine, meanders through the city, and lie on its banks hiking trails and picnic areas. Warburton was from 1901 on the railway line from Melbourne to Lilydale, which was decommissioned in 1965; since then the old railway line a trail for walkers, cyclists and horse riders.

The about 20 km east of Warburton lying Upper Yarra Dam, completed in 1957, Melbourne supplied with drinking water.

The Brisbane Bridge over the Yarra in Warburton

Views of the station Warburton, 1920

Sons and daughters of the town

• Timothy James Webb aka Tim J. Webb ( born 1967), artist