Balintore, Victoria

Balintore is a small farming community in south west Victoria, Australia. It is approximately 15 km north of Colac.

Balintore
Victoria
Langs James Rd, Balintore
Population67[1]
Postcode(s)3249
LGA(s)Shire of Colac Otway
Localities around Balintore:
Coragulac
Cororooke Balintore Lake Colac
Colac

Balintore is located between Lake Colac and Lake Corangamite.

Dairy and beef farming are the main industries in the area, with onion growing also popular in the past.[2]

Balintore once had a primary school. In 1953 there were at least 23 children attending the Balintore primary school.[3] When the school closed the students were then bussed to Alvie Consolidated School.[4]

History

Up to 1890 Balintore was known as the Balintore estate and was a single farming area of 4,072 acres,[5] an area which approximately conforms to the locality's current area. In 1897 the estate had been broken up and sold off.[6]

Sports

Balintore had a cricket team in the 1930s.[7]

A tennis club also existed for many years. The courts were removed around 1994.

Flora

The Spiny Peppercress Lepidium aschersonii was identified as growing in abundance on private land within Balintore by the Victorian Government.[8]

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Balintore". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  2. "PROPERTY AUCTION". Camperdown Chronicle. Vol. LXXV, no. 4086. Victoria, Australia. 13 April 1951. p. 8. Retrieved 28 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "People of Coragulac, Balintore and Alvie, near Colac, Vic". Weekly Times. No. 4360. Victoria, Australia. 14 January 1953. p. 26. Retrieved 28 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. Alvie Consolidated School handbook 2013
  5. "The Chirnside Estate". Table Talk. No. 280. Victoria, Australia. 31 October 1890. p. 6. Retrieved 28 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "SALES OF PROPERTIES". The Age. No. 13, 328. Victoria, Australia. 18 November 1897. p. 4. Retrieved 28 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. "Readers' Camera Studies". Weekly Times. No. 3699. Victoria, Australia. 20 August 1938. p. 36 (FIRST EDITION). Retrieved 28 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. Department of Sustainability and the Environment. "Action Statement" (PDF). Victorian Government.

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