Townships
| Belgrave, including Heights and South, Selby, Menzies Creek, Lysterfield and Narre Warren East
BELGRAVE HEIGHTS and SOUTH lie on the hill south of Belgrave. It is a community divided after a historical feud between two strong women, Sophie Giles (originally in Narre Warren North, later Belgrave South) and Hannah Elvery (Lockwood, later Belgrave Heights). Today a ZigZag Road or a creek divides the two communities. Properties were settled in the districts as early as the 1870's. LYSTERFIELD lies in the valley of the Monbulk Creek. First settlement took place in 1838 when James Dobie and J.S. Kerr opened a pastoral run known as Monbulk. The name Lysterfield came from a selector of the mid-1870's, William Lyster who gave a piece of his land to be the site of the school. MENZIES CREEK is located in an area honeycombed by mine shafts. In 1858 gold was discovered at the Emerald Diggings found at the junction of the Menzies and Woori Yallock Creeks. The district was named after John Menzies. A 'big tree' from the district was cut and exhibited in the Centennial Exhibition of 1888. NARRE WARREN EAST was originally known as Muddy Creek. The creek was so named because of the state of the horses once they had forded it. Narre Warren East has always been a small rural settlement. SELBY was opened up by the narrow gauge line in 1900. In 1923 the Selby Station Estate as an area frequented by weekenders. Selby was named after George W. Selby a Councillor of the day and Chairman of the Gembrooke Railway Trust. |
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