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 | |
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Map of south-eastern Australia with Henty Highway highlighted in green | |
| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 359 km (223 mi)[1] |
| Opened | 1938 |
| Route number(s) |
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| Former route number |  State Route 107 (1986–1998) |
| Major junctions | |
| North end |  Sunraysia HighwayLascelles, Victoria |
| South end |  Madeira Packet RoadPortland, Victoria |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Hopetoun, 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
- 1949 – 8-mile (13 km) deviation of the Henty Highway as a result of proposed inundation following the construction of the Rocklands Reservoir dam on the Glenelg River, between Cavendish and Cherrypool.[10]
Major intersections and towns
| LGA | Location[1][9] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenelg | Portland | 0.0 | 0.0 | Madeira Packet Road (C194 east) – Port area Henty Highway Link Road (south) – South Portland | Southern terminus of highway and route A200 |
| 2.4 | 1.5 | Madeira Packet Road (C194) – South Portland | |||
| 3.7 | 2.3 |  Bridgewater Road (C193 west) – Portland West, Cape BridgewaterOtway Street (east) – Portland | |||
| 4.7 | 2.9 |  Portland-Nelson Road (C192) – Nelson | |||
| 5.0 | 3.1 | Portland railway line | |||
| 6.1 | 3.8 | New Street – Portland | |||
| Bolwarra | 8.7 | 5.4 |  Princes Highway (A1 east) – Warrnambool | Southern terminus of concurrency with route A1 | |
| Heathmere | 20.6 | 12.8 | Portland railway line | ||
| Heywood | 29.5 | 18.3 |   Woolsthorpe-Heywood Road (C176/C191) – Woolsthorpe, Warrnambool | ||
| 30.0 | 18.6 | Princes Highway (A1 west) – Mount Gambier | Northern terminus of concurrency with route A1 | ||
| Myamyn | 46.0 | 28.6 |  Myamin-Macarthur Road (C186) – Macarthur | ||
| 49.3 | 30.6 | Portland railway line | |||
| Southern Grampians | Hamilton | 75.2 | 46.7 | ||
| 86.5 | 53.7 |  Hamilton-Port Fairy Road (C184) – Port Fairy | |||
| 87.5 | 54.4 |  Dartmoor-Hamilton Road (C187) – Dartmoor | |||
| 88.3 | 54.9 |  Glenelg Highway (B160 east) – Ballarat, Geelong | Concurrency with route B160 | ||
| 90.6 | 56.3 | Glenelg Highway (B160 west) – Casterton, Mount Gambier | |||
| Cavendish | 113 | 70 |  Dunkeld-Cavendish Road (C188 northwest) – Dunkeld | Southern terminus of concurrency with route C188 | |
| Wannon River | 114 | 71 | Bridge name unknown | ||
| Southern Grampians | Cavendish | 114 | 71 | Natimuk-Hamilton Road (C188 southeast) – Balmoral | Northern terminus of concurrency with route C188 |
| Glenelg River | 169 | 105 | Bridge name unknown | ||
| Horsham | Horsham | 215 | 134 |  Western Highway (A8 east) – Ararat, Ballarat, Melbourne | Southern terminus of concurrency with route A8 |
| 216 | 134 |  Horsham-Lubeck Road (C215) – Longerenong, Lubeck | |||
| Wimmera River | Bridge name unknown | ||||
| Horsham | Horsham | 217 | 135 |  Wimmera Highway (B240 west) – Edenhope, Naracoorte | Southern terminus of concurrency with route B240 |
| 218 | 135 | Western Highway (A8 west) – Dimboola, Bordertown, Adelaide | Northern terminus of concurrency with route A8 Route transition: route A200 south, route B200 north | ||
| Dooen | 227 | 141 | Wimmera Highway (B240 east) – Murtoa, St Arnaud, Bendigo | Northern terminus of concurrency with route B240 | |
| Byrneville | 244 | 152 |  Horsham-Minyip Road (C236) – Minyip, Donald | ||
| Yarriambiack | Warracknabeal | 274 | 170 |  Stawell-Warracknabeal Road (B210) – Stawell, Melbourne | |
 Borung Highway (C234 west) – Dimboola | Concurrency with route C234 | ||||
| 275 | 171 |  Warracknabeal-Rainbow Road (C245 west) – Rainbow Borung Highway (C234 east) – Donald, Charlton | |||
| Beulah | 309 | 192 |  Birchip-Rainbow Road (C243) – Birchip, Rainbow | ||
| Hopetoun | 331 | 206 | Hopetoun railway line | ||
| 334 | 208 |  Hopetoun-Rainbow Road (C227) – Rainbow | |||
| 338 | 210 |  Hopetoun-Walpeup Road (C247) – Walpeup | |||
| 342 | 213 |  Hopetoun-Sea Lake Road (C246) – Sea Lake | |||
| Lascelles | 359 | 223 | Sunraysia Highway (B220) – Ouyen, Mildura | Northern terminus of highway and route B200 | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- Google (18 October 2021). "Henty Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- 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
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 14 January 1987. pp. 82–4. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
