Balintore is a small farming community in south west Victoria, Australia. It is approximately 15 km north of Colac.
Balintore Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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Population | 67[1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 3249 | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Shire of Colac Otway | ||||||||||||||
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Balintore is located between Lake Colac and Lake Corangamite.
Dairy and beef farming are the main industries in the area, with onion growing also popular in the past.[2]
Balintore once had a primary school. In 1953 there were at least 23 children attending the Balintore primary school.[3] When the school closed the students were then bussed to Alvie Consolidated School.[4]
Up to 1890 Balintore was known as the Balintore estate and was a single farming area of 4,072 acres,[5] an area which approximately conforms to the locality's current area. In 1897 the estate had been broken up and sold off.[6]
Balintore had a cricket team in the 1930s.[7]
A tennis club also existed for many years.[when?] The courts were removed around 1994.[citation needed]
The Spiny Peppercress Lepidium aschersonii was identified as growing in abundance on private land within Balintore by the Victorian Government.[8]
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