Millgrove, Victoria

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Millgrove Victoria
Population:	1682 (2001 census)
Postcode:	3799
Elevation:	367 m
Location:	71 km from Melbourne 4 km from Warburton
LGA:	Shire of Yarra Ranges
State District:	Gembrook
Federal Division:	McEwen

Millgrove is a town to the East of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. It is located approximately 63 kilometres east of Melbourne, along the Warburton Highway, between Wesburn and Warburton.

Millgrove remained a timber-milling and agricultural town, with occasional tourism and fishing, until the 1960s and 1970s. Despite the closure of the railway in 1965, cars placed Millgrove within acceptable commuting distances of larger towns.

Millgrove has a public reserve, a small shopping area (general store, bakery, greengrocer, newsagent), saw mill, Baptist church and a primary school which shares campuses with Warburton East. The former railway line is now a walking and cycling track.

Located beneath the forested mountains of Donna Buang, Ben Cairn and Mount Little Joe, near the Yarra River, Millgrove is a very scenic little town. Often neglected by tourists (in favour of the larger, more affluent and tourist-oriented town of Warburton), it offers great cycling, canoeing and bushwalking opportunities.