Poppet Head
Poppet Head is a building in City of Ballarat, Victoria. Poppet Head is situated nearby to the peak Mullock Heap, as well as near the movie theater Victoria Theatre.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sovereign Hill and Art Gallery of Ballarat.
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 230 metres southwest of Poppet Head.
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Museum
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The Art Gallery of Ballarat is the oldest regional art gallery in Australia. It was established in 1884 as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery by a company of interested citizens led by James Oddie. Art Gallery of Ballarat is situated 2 km north of Poppet Head.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Warrenheip.
Ballarat
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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 5 km east of Poppet Head.
Buninyong
Town
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Buninyong is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong. Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, Longwood, Avenel, Cavendish, Euroa and Gisborne. Buninyong is situated 8 km south of Poppet Head.
Poppet Head
- Type: Building
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.57723° or 37° 34′ 38″ southLongitude
143.86659° or 143° 51′ 60″ eastOpen location code
4RJ5CVF8+4JOpenStreetMap ID
way 295121680OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=mineshaft
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