Pennyweight Park
Pennyweight Park is a park in City of Ballarat, Victoria. Pennyweight Park is situated nearby to the peak Pennyweight Hill, as well as near Apex Park.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sovereign Hill and Ballarat Wildlife Park.
Sovereign Hill
Museum
Photo: Mike Switzerland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. Sovereign Hill is situated 1¼ km southwest of Pennyweight Park.
Ballarat Wildlife Park
Zoo
The Ballarat Wildlife Park is a zoo in Ballarat, Victoria. Opened in February 1985, it is privately owned by founder Greg Parker, and Julia Leonard and managed by Jared Mulholland. Ballarat Wildlife Park is situated 1¼ km east of Pennyweight Park.
Ballarat East Fire Station
Fire station
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ballarat East Fire Station, in Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia is the oldest continually operating fire station in the Southern Hemisphere. The tower was designed by local architect Henry Caselli and was built in 1864 by William Cowland, a builder and fire brigade volunteer. Ballarat East Fire Station is situated 1 km northwest of Pennyweight Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Warrenheip.
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.
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 4½ km east of Pennyweight Park.
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 8 km east of Pennyweight Park.
Pennyweight Park
- Type: Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.57104° or 37° 34′ 16″ southLongitude
143.87583° or 143° 52′ 33″ eastOpen location code
4RJ5CVHG+H8OpenStreetMap ID
way 127958811OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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