Bakery Hill, Victoria

Bakery Hill Ballarat, Victoria
Ballarat Burrumbeet Road looking north east toward Bakery Hill Junction.
Bakery Hill
Coordinates	37°33′47″S 143°51′58″E / 37.563°S 143.866°E / -37.563; 143.866Coordinates: 37°33′47″S 143°51′58″E / 37.563°S 143.866°E / -37.563; 143.866
Population	173 (2011 census)[1]
• Density	692/km2 (1,790/sq mi)
Postcode(s)	3350
Area	0.25 km2 (0.1 sq mi)
Location	0.5 km (0 mi) from Ballarat Central
LGA(s)	City of Ballarat
State electorate(s)	Buninyong Wendouree
Federal Division(s)	Ballarat
Suburbs around Bakery Hill: Ballarat East Ballarat East Ballarat East Ballarat Central Bakery Hill Ballarat East Golden Point Golden Point Ballarat East

Bakery Hill is an inner city suburb of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. It is the smallest suburb in the city of Ballarat in terms of both area and population, which at the 2011 census was just 173 people.^[1]

The boundary of Bakery Hill is Peel Street to the west; Mair Street to the north; East Street to the east and Steinfield Street to the south. It was officially gazetted from Ballarat in 1992.

It is a primarily commercial area, including a portion of the eastern CBD with a restaurant precinct of Bridge Mall and key commercial precincts around Main Road, Peel Street and Mair Street as well as accommodation businesses and around 70 homes, mostly miners cottages in the surrounding streets.

Swearing Allegiance to the Southern Cross on 1 December 1854 on Bakery Hill — watercolour by Charles Doudiet

The suburb is situated around and named after the hill of the same name which in turn was named due to the location of the early settlement's main bakery.

Bakery Hill is one of the most historic places in Ballarat and important culturally to the city. It is the place of the meeting before the Eureka Stockade where insurgents swore the Eureka oath - their allegiance to the Southern Cross on 1 December 1854. It was also one of the richest mining leads in Australia, the place of discovery of the Welcome Nugget on 9 June 1858.

The Bakery Hill Secondary College, located on East Street, was closed in the 1990s during the Kennett era rationalisation of the education system and is now an antiques centre. The suburb has a kindergarten.

References

See also

• Electoral district of Ballarat East
• Ballarat

Localities in the City of Ballarat
Addington Alfredton Ascot Bakery Hill Bald Hills Ballarat Central Ballarat East Ballarat North Black Hill Blowhard Bo Peep Bonshaw Brown Hill Buninyong Bunkers Hill Burrumbeet Canadian Cardigan Cardigan Village Chapel Flat Coghills Creek Delacombe Durham Lead Ercildoune Eureka Glen Park Glendaruel Glendonnell Golden Point Gong Gong Invermay Invermay Park Lake Gardens Lake Wendouree Learmonth Lucas Magpie Miners Rest Mitchell Park Mount Bolton Mount Clear Mount Helen Mount Pleasant Mount Rowan Nerrina Newington Redan Scotchmans Lead Scotsburn Sebastopol Soldiers Hill Sulky Tourello Warrenheip Waubra Weatherboard Wendouree Windermere