Wesburn 3799 Wesburn 3799

Wesburn, a rural township between Yarra Junction and Warburton, is 62 km. east of Melbourne.

In 1894, after passing the Village Settlement Act two years before, the State Government subdivided 325 ha. of land along the Warburton Road into about forty farm lots. It was named the Warburton Village Settlement, later West Warburton and finally Wesburn (1925), an abbreviation of the previous name.

The railway line from Lilydale to Warburton opened in 1901, but ran north of the village settlement. A school was opened in 1904.

Wesburn is situated on relatively undulating land, with forested ranges immediately eastwards. During the 1920s it combined farming with tourist/excursionist accommodation, having about twelve boarding and guest houses. Motor-car transport was supplanting rail passenger service during that period. Wesburn Park included a racecourse (which held races until 1963), and the road from the railway station took visitors to the hotel and the Wesburn Hall.

Upwards of twenty saw mills operated in the Wesburn area since the first one had opened in 1903. (The two remaining mills are at Britannia Creek.)

Wesburn is within easy commuting distance of Lilydale and Warburton, and is nearly contiguous with Millgrove. Wesburn Park has two ovals, and the hall, and the township has two churches and shops. Along Settlement Road, which runs through the original village settlement, the Yarra Burn Winery (1975) offers cellar-door sales.

The median house price in Millgrove (which includes Wesburn sales data), has ranged between $56,000 and $81,000, 1987-96. (In 1989 when it was $81,000, it was possibly a year when more higher-valued properties were sold.)

Wesburn's census populations have been 294 (1911), 415 (1947) and 695 (1961).

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