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"Daylesford is a spa town located in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, approximately 108 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. First established in 1852 as a gold-mining town, today Daylesford has a population of 2,548 as of the 2016 census. As one of Australia’s few spa towns, Daylesford is a notable tourist destination. The town’s numerous spas, restaurants and galleries are popular alongside the many gardens and country-house-conversion styled bed and breakfasts. The broader area around the town, including Hepburn Springs to the north, is known for its natural spring mineral spas and is the location of over 80 per cent of Australia's effervescent mineral water reserve. It is also the filming location for the 3rd season of The Saddle Club. History J. Tenseld, Main Street, Daylesford, 1862, State Library of Victoria Prior to European settlement the area was occupied by the Djadja Wurrung people. Pastoralists occupied the Jim Crow and Upper Loddon districts following white settlement in 1838. In 1848, Irish immigrant John Egan took up land on the future town site then known as Wombat Flat. He and a party of searchers found alluvial gold in 1851 on ground now covered by Lake Daylesford initiating the local gold rush. Other finds quickly followed. With the finding of alluvial gold a town site was surveyed and founded in 1852. Initially called Wombat, it was renamed Daylesford. In 1859 around 3400 diggers were on the local diggings. The post office opened on 1 February 1858 and a telegraph office was opened in August 1859. Daylesford was declared a municipality in 1859 and a borough in the early 1860s. By the 1860s the alluvial gold was exhausted and a shift to quartz reef mining began. This continued on and off into the 1930s. In later years Daylesford became associated as being a fashionable spa resort, but fell out of favour in the Great Depression. The Daylesford Magistrates' Court closed on 1 January 1990. Climate At above sea level, it has a cooler, wetter climate than Melbourne. Summer (January–February) temperatures range from , while July temperatures are cold, ranging from about to . Annual precipitation, occasionally falling as snow, averages about but has ranged from to over per year. Economy Lake Daylesford Aerial panorama of Lake Daylesford in summer, 2018. With 65 mineral springs, the Daylesford-Hepburn Springs region accounts for more than 80 per cent of Australia’s known mineral water springs. As a result, the region has a number of spa developments including Hepburn Bathhouse & Spa, Mineral Spa at Peppers Springs Retreat and Salus Spa, Lake House. The town is also known for hosting a number of annual events, including the ChillOut Festival held during the Victorian Labour Day long weekend in March each year, the largest gay and lesbian festival in rural and regional Australia; the Harvest Week Festival; the Lavandula's Festivals; and the Hepburn Springs Swiss Italian Festival celebrating the town's Swiss- Italian heritage. Major industries in the economy of Daylesford today are healthcare, accommodation and food, and retail trade respectively. Education Daylesford State School (b. 1875) post card The town is served by a number of primary schools and one public secondary school, Daylesford Secondary College. The town's Secondary College was originally established as a mining school, in 1890. In 1961 the college was established as the sole provider of secondary education in the Shire of Hepburn and has just over 500 pupils. Daylesford Primary School, formerly known as Daylesford State School, is the oldest and longest-running provider of primary education in Daylesford. Other primary schools in the area include St. Michael's Primary School and Daylesford Dharma School. Daylesford Primary School is host to an annual book fair which first started in 2010 and has since begun operating as an annual book fair, where used and unwanted books are donated to raise funds that go towards improving children's literacy. Transport Aerial perspective of Daylesford Boathouse The Midland Highway runs directly through the town linking it with Castlemaine in the north and Ballarat in the south-west. The Western Freeway is the main route linking Daylesford to the state capital. The railway to the town closed in 1978. The railway layout at Daylesford station was unusual in that the lines from Creswick and Carlsruhe both entered the station from the same end.http://www.signaldiagramsandphotos.com/My_Web_pages/VR/Northern_&_Midland/9'46.htm The Daylesford Spa Country Railway currently operates a Sunday tourist service to Musk and Bullarto along the line towards Carlsruhe. Sport The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Central Highlands Football League. Daylesford is also home to the Daylesford and Hepburn United Soccer Club also known as the Saints or the Sainters. The Saints have won four league titles in their 20-year history along with two cup finals. Notable people *Brett Anthony Rovere (Industrialist, Entrepreneur & Publisher) lived & worked in Hepburn/Daylesford * David Bromley - (born 1960), artist, worked in Daylesford * Karl von Möller - Film Director and Cinematographer (15 Daly Street until 2012) 15 Daly Street where Karl von Möller's family lived * Michael Leunig - Cartoonist * Eugene von Guerard - Painter * (captain) John Stuart Hepburn - early pastoralist and landholder * John Egan - early pastoralist and landholder * Joseph Furphy - Novelist * George Raymond Johnson - Architect (designed The Daylesford Town Hall) * David Allison (Australian politician) * Keith Bradbury - Politician * Peter Corrigan - Architect * Josh Cowan * Bessie Lee Cowie * Charlie Foletta * Jack Gervasoni * Chris Grant (footballer) * Lynda Heaven * Merv Hobbs * Samuel Johnson (actor) * Peter Loney * Cecily Maude O'Connell trade unionist and religious social worker * Charlie Pannam (footballer, born 1874) * Ambrose McCarthy Patterson - painter and printmaker * Alfred Cecil Rowlandson * Edward Russell (trade unionist) * Jack Stevens - Major General (Australian Army) * Abigail Wehrung * Carl Willis (Australian sportsman) * Sir Charles Hotham * Ferdinand von Mueller Gallery Image:Daylesford ca1908.jpgDaylesford circa 1908 File:2009-Jul- Daylesford- 003 (3689249371).jpgPark in autumn ReferencesSources * Daylesford Advocate, Mercury, Express, Mercury-Express. 1859-1870 External links * * Information Centre/ Official regional government tourism site. - Daylesford tourism * Daylesford - Visit Victoria tourism * Daylesford Historical Society – History of Daylesford Category:Towns in Victoria (Australia) Category:Mining towns in Victoria (Australia) Category:Gay villages in Australia Category:Populated places established in 1852 Category:1852 establishments in Australia Category:Spa towns in Australia Category:Tourist attractions in Victoria (Australia) "
"The name Daylesford is borne by a number of settlements: *Daylesford, Victoria, Australia *Daylesford, Gloucestershire, England *Daylesford, Pennsylvania, United States **Daylesford (SEPTA station), a commuter rail station See also * Daylesford Abbey * Daylesford Football Club * Daylesford Monastery * Daylesford Secondary College * Daylesford Spa Country Railway ** Daylesford railway station * Electoral district of Daylesford "
"Glen Abbey Golf Club is a privately-owned golf course located in Oakville, Ontario Canada. It is one of Canada's most famous golf courses and is home to the Golf Canada and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. It has hosted 30 Canadian Open Championships, more than any other course, with the first having been in 1977. It was the first solo design by Jack Nicklaus in 1976. A distinguishing feature of the Glen Abbey course are the "Valley Holes", numbered 11 through 15. On number 11, a par 4, players tee off a cliff to a fairway that is approximately 60 feet below on the valley floor. The second shot must clear Sixteen Mile Creek to the green. Holes 12, 13 and 14 all use Sixteen Mile Creek as a hazard of one form or another. Number 15 is a short par 3 with a sharply-sloping green, after which players climb out of the valley to the 16th hole. Glen Abbey is owned by Clublink, operated by TWC Enterprises Limited. The company is planning to demolish the golf course in order to build residential and commercial units. The plan is opposed by the Oakville Town Council, which has designated the facility a heritage site. In 2018, the company achieved some success in its efforts against the town after a Superior Court ruled against the town's attempts to block its plan. History The property Glen Abbey is situated on was previously owned by a number of groups before it was made into a golf club. The land was originally patented to King's College (the predecessor to the University of Toronto) in 1814. In 1937, the property was sold to Andre Dorfman, as a private estate. In 1953, the property was sold to the Jesuit Fathers of Upper Canada, and was used as a retreat. From 1963 to 1974, the property was sold to another developer, who first attempted to develop the property into a gentlemen's club and golf course; and later into a ski hill. Nick Price at the 1994 Canadian Open at Glen Abbey Golf Club. In 1974, the property was sold to another developer, who developed the property into the present golf course. In 1975, the Royal Canadian Golf Association relocated its headquarters and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame to the golf club the following year. Two years later, the course hosted its first Canadian Open. The golf club is presently a rota course of the Canadian Open, hosting the event 30 times since 1977. The Royal Canadian Golf Association purchased the club in 1990 and sold it to Clublink in 1999. The 18th hole is notable due to its connection to Tiger Woods, who, in the final round of the 2000 Canadian Open, hit a six-iron shot 218 yards from a bunker on the right side of the fairway to about 18 feet from the hole. The shot was over a large pond that guards the green. In doing so, Woods proceeded to defeat his playing partner Grant Waite and won the tournament. The shot is regarded as one of the most spectacular both of Woods' career and in recent PGA Tour history. In 2009, Mark Calcavecchia set a new PGA Tour record with 9 consecutive birdies in his second round of the Canadian Open. After having started the round on the 10th hole, he birdied holes 12 through 18, then holes 1 and 2 of the front nine. Redevelopment plan Glen Abbey's golf course in November 2016. Clublink Corp first filed an application in October 2015 to redevelop the property. In its plan, there was no provision for a golf course. The Town of Oakville Council responded in August 2017 by declaring the golf course a heritage site under the Ontario Heritage Act. This would make it more difficult for Clublink to develop the area as it had planned, with 3,222 housing units. 69,000 square feet of commercial/retail space and 107,000 square feet of office space. Golf Canada was also concerned, since they could not predict whether it could get the necessary permit to hold the Canadian Open at Glen Abbey in 2018. Eventually, the event was in fact held at Glen Abbey. The Town of Oakville formally rejected the plan to demolish the golf course in a unanimous vote by the Planning and Development Council on February 12, 2018. In summer 2018, Clublink was awaiting a Superior Court decision on its plan to request a demolition permit and, in the meantime, the Canadian Open took place at the course. On October 25, 2018, Justice Edward Morgan ruled that Clublink had a right to take its demolition application to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT), in spite of the town's previous denial of this step. The city council subsequently voted unanimously to take the issue to the Ontario Court of Appeal. On December 11, 2018, the Ontario Superior Court ruled against the conservation plan and bylaws which had been enacted to stop the Glen Abbey development plan. Judge Edward Morgan said that the effort exceeded the town's legal rights and was made in bad faith. The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) will hold an eight-day hearing in June 2019 on ClubLink’s appeal of the town’s updated official plan and amended bylaws and later in 2019, another hearing later about ClubLink’s development application appeal. A report at the time of the October 2018 hearing clarified the owner's plan: building "3,222 residential units, including nine apartment buildings between nine and 12 storeys in height". These would be over and above the planned office space and commercial/retail space. The 2019 and 2023 Canadian Open were scheduled to be held at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club but the event may again be held at Glen Abbey in some future years if the redevelopment is not allowed to proceed. ScorecardNotesReferencesExternal links * Category:Golf clubs and courses in Ontario Category:Golf clubs and courses designed by Jack Nicklaus Category:Oakville, Ontario Category:Tourist attractions in the Regional Municipality of Halton Category:Canadian Open (golf) Category:1976 establishments in Ontario "