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Warrenheip is a suburb of
Ballarat Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resid ...
,
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,
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
on the eastern rural-urban fringe named after nearby
Mount Warrenheip Mount Warrenheip ( Wathawarrung: ''Warrengeep'') is an inactive scoria volcanic cone in Victoria, Australia.Victorian VolcanoesMt Warrenheip , Victorian Volcanoes accessdate: December 16, 2017 The mountain has an elevation of AHD. A landmark ...
. At the , Warrenheip had a population of 721.


Precolonial history and name origins

Mount Warrenheip is situated on the traditional country of the
Wathaurong The Wathaurong nation, also called the Wathaurung, Wadawurrung and Wadda Wurrung, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the area near Melbourne, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula in the state of Victoria. They are part of the Kulin all ...
people to whom it holds significant cultural, social and spiritual significance. The name Warrenheip is taken from the Wathaurong word Warrengeep, meaning “emu feathers”, believed to relate to the appearance of ferns on the side of the mountain which look like emu feathers.


Colonial era and the Victorian Gold Rush

Gold prospectors from nearby goldfields in Ballarat were present around Warrenheip by the 1860s there was a predominantly Irish farming community by the early 1870,s and a primary school was opened in 1876. Warrenheip was established as a electoral division, the
Electoral district of Warrenheip The electoral district of Warrenheip was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the British colony, and later Australian state, of Victoria. Created in 1889, the electorate was abolished in 1927 when it became the electoral distri ...
in 1889, the electorate was abolished in 1927 when it became the
electoral district of Warrenheip and Grenville The electoral district of Warrenheip and Grenville was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. Created in 1927 by the Electoral Districts Act 1926 after the abolition of the electoral district of ...
. A train line from Geelong to Ballarat was built nearby and
Warrenheip railway station Warrenheip is a closed station located in the town of Warrenheip, on the Serviceton line in Victoria, Australia. The junction of the Geelong-Ballarat line is at the Up end of the former station site. The double track Geelong to Ballarat lin ...
opened in 1873.


Modern history

As Ballarat expanded eastward during the 1980s, the junction of the Western Highway became a location for light industry. Today the industry dominates Warrenheip and continues to expand with the development of business parks. Residential Warrenheip consists mainly of large semi-rural blocks.


References

Suburbs of Ballarat {{GrampiansAU-geo-stub