BACKGROUND

The Warringal Parklands is a recreation site on the north bank of the Yarra River within the c1500 ha Yarra Valley Parklands, which extend along the river from Ivanhoe to Warrandyte. 

 

Warringal Parklands is an extensive area of parkland and bushland which features a number of distinct areas.  Sill’s Bend, used as an orchard and farm from the 1850s, retains a few old fruit trees, as well as later plantings, and was a popular swimming spot in the early twentieth century.  Nearby Fanning’s Bend has tree plantings from the 1960s and later.

 

Warringal Park, a sports ground built in 1926, features late 1920s poplar avenues as well as mature pepper trees and eucalypts. North of the oval are the Warringal Swamps, a wetland area with plantings of indigenous trees and shrubs, and an area of ornamental parkland where various planting schemes have been developed since the 1950s.  The former Heidelberg Shire Offices have been relocated to this area.

 

The Main Yarra Trail passes through the Parklands.