Leigh Creek
Leigh Creek is a locality in central Victoria, Australia. The locality is in the Shire of Moorabool, 106 kilometres west of the state capital, Melbourne and 11 kilometres east of the regional city of Ballarat.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 65 residents
- Description: town in Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Leigh Creek, Victoria” and “Leigh Creek, Victoria, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Warrenheip and Ballarat Energy Storage System.
Mount Warrenheip
Volcano
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Warrenheip is an inactive scoria volcanic cone in Victoria, Australia. The mountain has an elevation of 746 metres AHD. A landmark of Dunnstown, the closest town, the mountain is 9 kilometres east of the Ballarat central business district, in the locality of Warrenheip.
Ballarat Energy Storage System
Power station
Ballarat Energy Storage System is a grid-connected energy storage system connected to the Ballarat Area Terminal Substation in Warrenheip, on the eastern outskirts of Ballarat in Victoria. Ballarat Energy Storage System is situated 3½ km west of Leigh Creek.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Warrenheip and Dunnstown.
Warrenheip
Suburb
Warrenheip is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the eastern rural-urban fringe named after nearby Mount Warrenheip. At the 2021 census, Warrenheip had a population of 721. Warrenheip is situated 3½ km southwest of Leigh Creek.
Dunnstown
Village
Dunnstown is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool, 108 kilometres west of the state capital, Melbourne on the flats below Mount Warrenheip and approximately 12 kilometres east of Ballarat. Dunnstown is situated 3½ km south of Leigh Creek.
Ballarat
Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ballarat is a city about 110 km north-west of Melbourne in the Goldfields region of Victoria. Ballarat is most noted as a former goldmining town with excellent examples of Australian colonial architecture, and as the site of the famous miners' revolt at the Eureka Stockade in 1854.
Leigh Creek
- Category: locality
- Location: Shire of Moorabool, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.55803° or 37° 33′ 29″ southLongitude
143.95834° or 143° 57′ 30″ eastPopulation
65Elevation
576 metres (1,890 feet)Open location code
4RJ5CXR5+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 955241823OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2160375Wikidata ID
Q13157473
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Irish—“Leigh Creek” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Leigh Creek”
- Irish: “Leigh Creek, Victoria”
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