Brown Hill (Vic.)
- Local Government Area
- Ballarat
- Population
- 4,489
- Area
- 7.41 km²
- Coordinates
- -37.5484, 143.9122
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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About Brown Hill (Vic.)
Brown Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, on the eastern rural-urban fringe of the city about 5 kilometres from the central business district. It began in the 1850s as a gold-mining hamlet on the Yarrowee River, and its name is a corruption of Brownbill's Hill, after the prospector William Brownbill, who found gold there in 1851. The district's Eureka National School opened in 1853.
Nearby localities
- Nerrina 2 km
- Gong Gong 2 km
- Ballarat East 3 km
- Warrenheip 3 km
- Eureka (Vic.) 3 km
- Black Hill (Vic.) 4 km