Upwey, Shire of Yarra Ranges, Victoria, Australia
Postcode: 3158
Description: Moutain residential suburb
Location: 34 km east of Melbourne, 2 km west of Belgrave in Dandenong Ranges
Named: By Tullidge family, local landholders, who came from the english village of Upwey by the River Wey. (Blake)
By the Tullidge sisters bought a homestead in 1897 and named it after an English village on the River Wey—Upwey. Originally known as Mast Gully, as several masts for ships were cut down in the 1850s. (Wikipedia)
Prahran Mechanics’ Institute
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Sherbrooke Foothills Historical Society
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