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The Hamilton Highway was originally the Lower Leigh Road, an early track to Victoria’s Western District.<\/p>\n
In 1843 William Lawson built an inn near a ford across the Barwon River.<\/p>\n
Not only was the inn conveniently near a river crossing, the land thereabouts was also flood-prone, and the silt left by the receding waters was ideal for farming purposes.<\/p>\n
Settlers had orchards and dairying and Lawson built a new hotel, named the Horseshoe Inn during 1851-53, and a township was proclaimed in 1853 leading to a bridge over the Barwon being built in 1855.<\/p>\n
Inverleigh maintained a comparatively consistent population level during the years after World War II, with about a 30% growth between 1971 and 1996.<\/p>\n
CoreLogic data indicates that the predominant age group in Inverleigh is 0-9 years with households in Inverleigh being primarily young couples with children and are likely to be repaying on average $1,950 per month on mortgage repayments, and in general, people in Inverleigh work in a managers occupation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The size of Inverleigh is about 211.7 square kilometres and has three parks covering nearly 5.5 per cent of total area. The population of Inverleigh in 2016 was 1,468 and by the 2021 Census the population was recorded at 1,746 showing a population growth of 20% in the area during that time. Inverleigh is a […]<\/p>\n