Bonshaw is a locality on the southern rural fringe of the
City of Ballarat
The City of Ballarat is a local government area in the west of the state of Victoria, Australia. It covers an area of and, in June 2023, had a population of 118,137. It is primarily urban with the vast majority of its population living in the ...
in
Victoria
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, Australia. At the , Bonshaw had a population of 949.
This is an increase from a population of 210 at the and 188 at the .
Bonshaw was named for a
sheep run which
John Winter purchased from George Russell and Henry Anderson, who was part of the party which first sighted the future area of Ballarat, in the 1840s. Although Anderson named it Waverley Park, Winter renamed it Bonshaw after
the estate of his father-in-law.
In 2012, the city council named a watercourse in Bonshaw and
Delacombe Banyule Creek. In mid-2022, an application for another housing development in Bonshaw was submitted to the council. On 1 November 2023, parts of Bonshaw was incorporated into the
Wendouree district. Bonshaw is one of four precincts in the Ballarat West Growth Area, and the companies Jellis Craig and Florian Living are currently developing their own real estate projects in the locality.
References
Suburbs of Ballarat
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