Millgrove, Victoria
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Millgrove is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges.
Millgrove is a rural township of approximately 2000 people, situated approximately 63 km. east of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia). Millgrove is one of a number of small towns along the Warburton Highway, in the Upper Yarra Valley, sandwiched between Wesburn and Warburton.
Millgrove remained a timber-milling and agricultural town, with occasional tourism and fishing, until the 1960/70s. Despite the closure of the railway in 1965, cars placed Millgrove within acceptable commuting distances of larger towns.
Millgrove has a public reserve, a small shopping area (general store, butcher, greengrocer, newsagent), saw mill, Baptist church and a primary school which shares campuses with Warburton East. The former railway line is now a walking and cycling track.
Located beneath the forested mountains of Donna Buang, Ben Cairn and Mount Little Joe, near the Yarra River, Millgrove is a very scenic little town. Often neglected by tourists (in favour of the larger, more affluent and tourist-oriented town of Warburton), it offers great cycling, canoeing and bushwalking opportunities.