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Wallington is a rural town on the Bellarine Peninsula, roughly 4 km east-south-east of Geelong.

Landholder, Fairfax Fenwick, subdivided part of his property in 1853, and named the subdivision after Wallington Hall in Northumberland, England.

Wallington Hotel opened in 1855, and another hotel opened later, becoming famed for its gardens, and for strawberries and cream for travellers to the popular Queenscliff resort. There were also an extensive orchard, hay and corn stores, a store and a post office. The hotel continued until the 1930s, a period when Queenscliff was going out of fashion.

Wallington Primary School opened in 1900. The area is also well known for its annual Wallington Strawberry Fair.

To the north of Wallington it Curlewis, remembered for its quaintly named Help Me Through The World Hotel. It had a strong Catholic community with a Catholic school (1851) and church.

To the south of Wallington is Fenwick, named after the original landholder. The place is marked by a church, and urban growth from Ocean Grove encroaches on its boundaries.

Wallington and Fenwick occupy one of the most scenically attractive parts of the Bellarine Peninsula, with well-treed, undulating landscape with deep, well-drained soils. The land is intensively farmed, growing potatoes, peas, fruit and, in the past, asparagus. In the 1930s there was a Leopold and Wallington District Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association. The fruit-growing tradition continues with the Wallington Strawberry Festival.

The attractive landscape and its proximity to Geelong and coastal beaches has drawn rural residential developments, mostly on allotments of 1 to 5 ha. The community centre, however, is not large, having a school, a hall and a recreation reserve.

Wallington's census populations have been 105 (1911), 234 (1947) and 387 (1961). The estimated population in 1976 was 375 persons.

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➼ www..wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallington,_Victoria

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➼ www.wallington-ps.vic.edu.au






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