Historical information
A flyer produced by Parks Victoria of information on Lady Talbot Drive and Cambarville Historic Township.
Significance
A flyer produced by Parks Victoria of information on Lady Talbot Drive and Cambarville Historic Township.
Lady Talbot Drive a 24 kilometer scenic rainforest car journey which passes a number of walks and waterfalls in the Yarra Ranges National Park. Lady Talbot Drive is named after Lady Sarah Elizabeth, the wife of Sir Reginald Talbot, who was the Governor of Victoria from 25th April, 1904 to 6th July 1908.
Cambarville is notable for its giant mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) trees within the Cumberland Memorial Scenic Reserve, and relics from former sawmills and gold mining. The Big Culvert is located nearby on the Marysville-Woods Point Road, which was historically part of the Yarra Track. Cambarville was established as a timber mill town in the 1940s. Timber mill owners A Cameron and FJ Barton named Cambarville. They established the mill to salvage timber from trees destroyed in the 1939 bushfires. Cambarville was impacted by the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and any remaining structures were destroyed.
Keywords
- parks victoria,
- yarra ranges national park,
- lady talbot drive,
- lady talbot forest drive,
- cambarville,
- taggerty river,
- sir reginald talbot,
- lady sarah elizabeth talbot,
- phantom falls,
- keppel falls,
- keppel falls lookout,
- beeches rainforest walk,
- big culvert,
- cumberland walk,
- the big tree,
- the sitka spruce,
- cora lynn falls,
- sovereign view
