Panton Hill is a town in

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, 32 km north-east of Melbourne's

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, located within the

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. Panton Hill recorded a population of 1,063 at the 2021 census.

History

Originally called Kingstown, the area experienced population growth in the mid-1850s during the

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when

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mined the hills around the town known as the Caledonia Goldfields. It was named after Joseph Anderson Panton, who was the magistrate at

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and spent much of his spare time mapping the

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. Panton Hill Post Office opened on 1 October 1875. The Panton Hill Primary School, number 1134, was originally a two (2) room building with the Headmasters residence beside it.

Today

The town has a hotel, general store/post office, an

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club called the Panton Hill Redbacks, competing in the

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and a cricket club in the Diamond Valley Cricket Association, with 4 senior teams and 4 junior teams. It is also home to a small church, St. Matthews Anglican Church,() and several wineries including Panton Hill Winery.
Panton Hill Primary School
has an enrolment of approximately 150. The nearest high schools are Diamond Valley Secondary College and

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. Panton Hill also has a volunteer Country Fire Brigade that services Panton Hill and the surrounding areas. A park in the centre of town has been dedicated to the memory of 5 of Panton Hill's firefighters who perished on

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. Panton Hill Primary School's houses are named after these firefighters. A mobile library service operated by

Yarra Plenty Regional Library Yarra Plenty Regional Library (YPRL) provides a public library service to the local government municipalities of the City of Banyule, Shire of Nillumbik and City of Whittlesea in the northeast of Melbourne Australia and located on the lands of ...

regularly visits the township.

References

External links

Australian Dictionary of BiographyPanton Hill, Victorian Places
{{authority control Towns in Victoria (Australia) Shire of Nillumbik

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