The township of Ensay on the Great Alpine Road

Ensay is a small town located between Swifts Creek and Bruthen on the Great Alpine Road in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Ensay is 80km north of the major town of Bairnsdale and 366km east of the state capital Melbourne. Other nearby towns include Omeo and Benambra. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1000, 598 KB) Summary Ensay township on the Great Alpine Rd, Ensay, Victoria, Australia. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1000, 598 KB) Summary Ensay township on the Great Alpine Rd, Ensay, Victoria, Australia. ... View from Myrtleford to Mount Buffalo National Park The Great Alpine Road (B500) is a country road from Wangaratta to Bairnsdale passing through the Victorian Alps. ... Swifts Creek is located between Omeo and Ensay on the Great Alpine Road of Victoria Categories: Australia-related stubs ... Bruthen is situated on the Tambo River, 24 kilometres north-east of Bairnsdale, Victoria and 300 kilometres east of Melbourne. ... View from Myrtleford to Mount Buffalo National Park The Great Alpine Road (B500) is a country road from Wangaratta to Bairnsdale passing through the Victorian Alps. ... Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. ... Emblems: Pink heath (floral)Weedy Seadragon (Aquatic) helmeted honeyeater (bird) Leadbeaters possum (faunal) Motto: Peace and Prosperity Slogan or Nickname: Garden State, The Place To Be, On The Move Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Const. ... Bairnsdale, Victoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Melbourne (pronounced either or [1]) is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 3. ... Omeo is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Great Apline Road, east of Mount Hotham, in the East Gippsland Shire. ... The Benambra Uniting Church, erected 1905 Benambra is a small town located 22km north-east of Omeo and 437km east of the state capital Melbourne, in the Australian Alps of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. ...

The town centre is located just north of the confluence of the Little River and the Tambo River at an altitude of approximately 400m. The official population is 250, although most residents live on farms and properties out of the actual town.

History

The remains of the enormous Ensay shearing sheds, formerly part of Ensay Station, on the Little River Rd

The Aboriginal name for the area around Ensay was Numblamunjie, which translates as ‘blackfish place’. Archibald Macleod (see Bairnsdale, History) set up a station in this area in 1843. He named it after the now unpopulated island of Ensay in the Outer Hebrides of his homeland of Scotland. Ensay is a Gaelic translation for Jesus. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1000, 433 KB) Summary Remains of the enormous historic shearing sheds, Ensay, Victoria, Australia. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1000, 433 KB) Summary Remains of the enormous historic shearing sheds, Ensay, Victoria, Australia. ... Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands, believing they have been in occupation since the beginning of time and continuing their presence during European settlement. ... Bairnsdale, Victoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Chapel on the Island of Ensay, so named because St. ... Western Isles redirects here. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I 843  Area    - Total 78... The Goidelic languages (also sometimes called the Gaelic languages or collectively Gaelic) are one of two major divisions of modern-day Insular Celtic languages (the other being the Brythonic languages). ... Jesus (8–2 BC/BCE — 29–36 AD/CE),[1] also known as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity. ...

The land around Ensay was originally taken up in 1839 by the noted explorer of the district Angus McMillan on behalf of his then employer Lachlan Macalister. This was abandoned shortly afterwards in 1841 with the settlement of large areas of land in the more central parts of Gippsland. Portrait of McMillan from memorial cairn Angus McMillan (14 August 1810-18 May 1865), was an explorer and pioneer pastoralist in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. ... Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. ...

The original Ensay Station covered an enormous 38,400 acres, which took in most of the Ensay district up to Swifts Creek, where it abutted the Tongio Station. Some areas very near Ensay, such as Reedy Flat, were outside the Ensay Station boundaries and were not occupied by European settlers until the 1870s. Swifts Creek is located between Omeo and Ensay on the Great Alpine Road of Victoria Categories: Australia-related stubs ...

Ensay Station was progressively split up into smaller farms over the years. Notably the area became a site for soldier settlers following World War I, as returned servicemen looking for employment were allocated areas of land to farm by the government. Agricultural use of the land around Ensay remains chiefly for the raising of cattle and sheep. Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Kingdom of Italy Russian Empire Kingdom of Serbia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria German Empire Ottoman Empire Commanders Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Ferdinand Foch Nikolay II Nikolay Yudenich Radomir Putnik Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Reinhard Scheer Franz Josef I Oskar...

Facilities (past and present)

The Little River Inn, Ensay

The classic architecture of The Little River Inn

The population of Ensay has contracted over the last few decades. In the past Ensay supported a primary school, a number of sporting teams and other facilities, including two significant pubs, two churches, a community hall, a scout group and a cemetery. Several of these facilities continue to this day in some form. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1200x900, 300 KB) Summary Little River Inn, Ensay, Victoria, Australia. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1200x900, 300 KB) Summary Little River Inn, Ensay, Victoria, Australia. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1200x900, 300 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ensay, Victoria ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1200x900, 300 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ensay, Victoria ... Primary or elementary education consists of the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ... For notes on some individual UK pubs, see Notable United Kingdom public houses. ... A church building (or simply church) is a building used in Christian worship. ... Scouts and Guides from different countries on World Scout Moot 1996 Scouting is a worldwide youth organization. ... Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies are buried. ...

The Ensay Primary School (originally simply the Ensay School) opened in 1889 and was rebuilt in 1912. In 1971 three other local primary schools closed (at Reedy Flat, Ensay North and Tambo Crossing) and amalgamated with Ensay Primary School to form the Ensay Group School. Ensay Primary School itself closed in 1994 when the number of students dropped to about six. Since then local children have been bussed to Swifts Creek Primary School, with older students attending Swifts Creek Secondary College. Some of more famous Ensay students are the Gaunts who despite their long haired father's support of the Sydney Swans have turned out to be valuable citizens. In particular, Lyndal has proved to be a decent netballer and, despite barracking for Sydney, not that bad a person.--220.235.228.92 11:06, 11 September 2006 (UTC) Swifts Creek is located between Omeo and Ensay on the Great Alpine Road of Victoria Categories: Australia-related stubs ...

The Little River Inn originated as a shanty selling grog in the early 1840s. The first licence was taken out in 1847 and it has been continuously licensed since, remaining a popular local establishment to this day. This makes it the oldest hotel in the Omeo district and possibly the oldest in East Gippsland. The early Little River Inn seemed to be particularly susceptible to fire, having been burnt down at least three (and perhaps four) times in its history. The current building dates from the 1920s following the fire of 1921. At this time the building was rebuilt on its present site, a spot known at the time as Calcutta Corner. This hotel is around one kilometre from the official town centre, about half a kilometre down a side road east of the Great Alpine Road. Sea shanties (singular shanty, also spelled chantey; derived from the French word chanter, to sing) were shipboard working songs. ... Grog issue on board the HMS Endymion; circa 1905 Rum measure reputed to be from Trafalgar Black Tot Day, on board the HMS Phoebe; 31 July, 1970 For other uses, see Grog (disambiguation). ... Omeo is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Great Apline Road, east of Mount Hotham, in the East Gippsland Shire. ... A large bonfire. ... A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging, usually on a short-term basis. ... View from Myrtleford to Mount Buffalo National Park The Great Alpine Road (B500) is a country road from Wangaratta to Bairnsdale passing through the Victorian Alps. ...

For many years the Ensay Post Office ran from a small attachment to the Little River Inn. After the post office moved to the general store, a small bookshop ran for several years from this attachment, later relocating to the former Primary School building, and now to Swifts Creek. The Ensay South Hotel, now sited on a small loop road off the Great Alpine Road about half a kilometre south of the town, was established in 1892 and closed in 1961. Small-town post office and town hall in Lockhart, Alabama A post office is a facility (in most countries, a government one) where the public can purchase postage stamps for mailing correspondence or merchandise, and also drop off or pick up packages or other special-delivery items. ...

A bush nursing facility was established at Ensay in 1912, with a new building established in 1958. In 1978 this became known as the Ensay Community Health Centre and now includes a Rural Ambulance Depot. Ensay also has a Country Fire Authority (CFA) depot, originally established in 1940 as the Ensay Bush Fire Brigade. An ambulance is a vehicle designated for the transport of sick or injured people. ... The Country Fire Authority is the name of the mixed Rural and Urban fire service that provides fire fighting services to some of the outer suburban areas of Melbourne and all of the country areas and regional townships within the state of Victoria, Australia not covered by the Metropolitan Fire...

Sports

Ensay New Year's Day Sports Carnival, 2006

In Australian rules football the Ensay Football Club competed for many decades in the Omeo District Football League (ODFL). The affiliated Ensay Netball Club competed in the associated netball competition. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1067, 504 KB) Ensay New Year Sports 2006 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ensay, Victoria ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1067, 504 KB) Ensay New Year Sports 2006 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ensay, Victoria ... Australian Rules and Aussie Rules redirect here. ... Netball is a team sport similar to and derived from basketball. ...

The Ensay colours were blue and gold. Earlier Ensay football jumpers were a golden-yellow vee on a royal blue background. Late in their time Ensay changed their jumper to the early design of the West Coast Eagles AFL club. The netball club wore a yellow top with blue skirt. The West Coast Eagles Football Club is an Australian Rules Football club that is a member of the Australian Football League. ... The Australian Football League (AFL) is the Australian national competition in the sport of Australian rules football. ...

The clubs played their last matches in 1995 when they struggled to field teams at the start of the season, finally folding after a few rounds. The recreation reserve is still kept in good condition and hosts occasional special games, including the ODFL Grand Final on occasions.

Ensay Tennis Club competes in the Omeo District Tennis Association (ODTA). The tennis club maintained a strong presence for several years after the football and netball teams folded, but itself briefly ceased playing for the 2001/2002 and 2002/2003 seasons. Ensay revived for the 2003/2004 season and again takes part in the ODTA competition. Ensay also hosts the annual ANA Tournament on the Australia Day Weekend each year in late January, a long running and successful tennis tournament attracting entries from widely scattered areas. A tennis net Tennis is a sport played between either two players (Singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ... Australia Day is Australias official national day, January 26. ...

A New Year's Day Sports’ Carnival is also held annually in Ensay, chiefly consisting of a number of equestrian and novelty events. This annual carnival has been a local fixture of the surrounding community since 1916. Various other equestrian events are also held at the Ensay Recreation Reserve, and the reserve also features a lawn bowling green. For information on the movie, New Years Day, see New Years Day (film). ... A junior horse riding event at the Melbourne Show Equestrianism relates to the riding of horses. ... Swifts Creek Bowls Club Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Bowls Bowls (also known as Lawn Bowls or Lawn Bowling) is a precision sport where the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical balls (called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than ones...

Panoramic 180° view of the Ensay Recreation Reserve. From left: public toilets, lawn bowls club and green, tennis and netball courts and clubrooms, football changerooms and clubrooms, playground, football oval

Panorama of the 2006 Ensay New Year's Day Sports Carnival

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References

• Gardner, P.D. (1997) Names of the Great Alpine Road Between Bairnsdale and Omeo. Ensay: Ngarak Press.

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