Henty Highway

Henty Highway is a rural highway in western Victoria, Australia. It is primarily a north-south route, consisting of a mix of dual-lane, single-carriageway country highway and four-lane arterial road within some of the larger towns along the route. It was named in honour of Edward Henty, a British colonist regarded as the first permanent European settler of the Port Phillip District (in what later became the Colony of Victoria), in the town eventually named Portland.

Henty Highway

Road map showing a north-south road in Victoria's west covering most of the length of the state
Map of south-eastern Australia with Henty Highway highlighted in green
General information
TypeHighway
Length359 km (223 mi)[1]
Opened1938
Route number(s)
  • B200 (1998–present)
    (Lascelles–Horsham)
  • A200 (1998–present)
    (Horsham–Portland)
Former
route number
State Route 107 (1986–1998)
Major junctions
North end Sunraysia Highway
Lascelles, Victoria
 
South end Madeira Packet Road
Portland, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlementsHopetoun, Warracknabeal, Horsham, Hamilton, Heywood
Highway system

History

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[2] through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads). The Henty Highway was declared a State Highway in August 1938,[3] cobbled together from roads between Mildura, Warracknabeal, Horsham, and Hamilton to Portland (for a total of 263 miles); before this declaration, these roads were referred to as Mildura Road, Hopetoun(-Lascelles) Road, Hopetoun-Warracknabeal Road, Hamilton-Horsham Road and Hamilton-Portland Road.[4] It originally started from the Calder Highway in Nunga, the junction south of Ouyen; when the North-Western Highway was renamed Sunraysia Highway on 11 September 1972, and extended from Lascelles to Nunga, the Henty Highway was truncated back to Lascelles.[5] The southern end of the highway through Portland was changed in January 1987: from New and Percy and Gawler Streets terminating at the intersection of Gawler, Cliff and Bentick Streets in central Portland, to its current alignment along Port Road and the southern section of Portland-Nelson Road to the intersection with Wellington Road in Portland's southern suburbs.[6]

The Henty Highway was signed as State Route 107 between Portland and Lascelles in 1986;[7] with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route A200 between Portland and Horsham, and B200 between Horsham and Lascelles.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[8] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2013, VicRoads re-declared the road as Henty Highway (Arterial #6620) between the Sunraysia Highway in Lascelles and Madeira Packet Road at Portland.[9]

Upgrades

Major intersections and towns

LGALocation[1][9]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
GlenelgPortland0.00.0 Madeira Packet Road (C194 east) – Port area
Henty Highway Link Road (south) – South Portland
Southern terminus of highway and route A200
2.41.5 Madeira Packet Road (C194) – South Portland
3.72.3 Bridgewater Road (C193 west) – Portland West, Cape Bridgewater
Otway Street (east)  Portland
4.72.9 Portland-Nelson Road (C192)  Nelson
5.03.1Portland railway line
6.13.8New Street  Portland
Bolwarra8.75.4 Princes Highway (A1 east)  WarrnamboolSouthern terminus of concurrency with route A1
Heathmere20.612.8Portland railway line
Heywood29.518.3 Woolsthorpe-Heywood Road (C176/C191)  Woolsthorpe, Warrnambool
30.018.6 Princes Highway (A1 west)  Mount GambierNorthern terminus of concurrency with route A1
Myamyn46.028.6 Myamin-Macarthur Road (C186)  Macarthur
49.330.6Portland railway line
Southern GrampiansHamilton75.246.7
86.553.7 Hamilton-Port Fairy Road (C184)  Port Fairy
87.554.4 Dartmoor-Hamilton Road (C187)  Dartmoor
88.354.9 Glenelg Highway (B160 east)  Ballarat, GeelongConcurrency with route B160
90.656.3 Glenelg Highway (B160 west)  Casterton, Mount Gambier
Cavendish11370 Dunkeld-Cavendish Road (C188 northwest)  DunkeldSouthern terminus of concurrency with route C188
Wannon River11471Bridge name unknown
Southern GrampiansCavendish11471 Natimuk-Hamilton Road (C188 southeast)  BalmoralNorthern terminus of concurrency with route C188
Glenelg River169105Bridge name unknown
HorshamHorsham215134 Western Highway (A8 east)  Ararat, Ballarat, MelbourneSouthern terminus of concurrency with route A8
216134 Horsham-Lubeck Road (C215) – Longerenong, Lubeck
Wimmera RiverBridge name unknown
HorshamHorsham217135 Wimmera Highway (B240 west)  Edenhope, NaracoorteSouthern terminus of concurrency with route B240
218135 Western Highway (A8 west)  Dimboola, Bordertown, AdelaideNorthern terminus of concurrency with route A8
Route transition: route A200 south, route B200 north
Dooen227141 Wimmera Highway (B240 east)  Murtoa, St Arnaud, BendigoNorthern terminus of concurrency with route B240
Byrneville244152 Horsham-Minyip Road (C236)  Minyip, Donald
YarriambiackWarracknabeal274170 Stawell-Warracknabeal Road (B210)  Stawell, Melbourne
Borung Highway (C234 west)  DimboolaConcurrency with route C234
275171 Warracknabeal-Rainbow Road (C245 west)  Rainbow
Borung Highway (C234 east)  Donald, Charlton
Beulah309192 Birchip-Rainbow Road (C243)  Birchip, Rainbow
Hopetoun331206Hopetoun railway line
334208 Hopetoun-Rainbow Road (C227)  Rainbow
338210 Hopetoun-Walpeup Road (C247)  Walpeup
342213 Hopetoun-Sea Lake Road (C246)  Sea Lake
Lascelles359223 Sunraysia Highway (B220)  Ouyen, MilduraNorthern terminus of highway and route B200
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. Google (18 October 2021). "Henty Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  2. State of Victoria, An Act to make further provision with respect to Highways and Country Roads Motor Cars and Traction Engines and for other purposes 30 December 1924
  3. "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1939". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 10 November 1939. p. 4.
  4. "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twenty-First Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1934". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 19 November 1934. pp. 68, 70, 72.
  5. "Country Roads Board Victoria. Sixtieth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1973". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1973. p. 14.
  6. "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 14 January 1987. pp. 82–4. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  7. "Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1986". Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 24 November 1986. p. 42.
  8. State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  9. VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 1003–4. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  10. "Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Sixth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1949". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1949. p. 14.
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