Greendale

Did you see the movie Charlottes Web? Remember those glorious green rolling hills? Yes, they are the hills & dales of Greendale.

About 10 minutes drive off the Pykes Creeks exit from Western Highway the centre of Greendale is the hotel at the roundabout. A left takes you to Ballan or a right to Trentham, through Blackwood.

Greendale Hotel (formally the Medway) promises a 'friendly smile & a voice well versed' as you quench your thirst. It incorporates the towns general store.

Many visitors stop to wonder at the historic 1/2 church just up from the hotel. The “half church” was dedicated in August 1877 in its present shape to allow for possible future expansion. A note in an early diary says, “went to church, preacher was Mr Scott”. Mr Scott was a lay reader with the Church of England at Bacchus Marsh but became more well known as “Captain Moonlite”, one of Victoria’s most notorious bushrangers. He was active in the district in the 1870s and was finally arrested in New South Wales. La Cote Homestead, which was located in La Cote Road, was owned by Mr Shuter, a stipendiary magistrate, before whom Captain Moonlite appeared. Scott was eventually hanged in 1879.

Greendale Country House offers peaceful self contained accommodation on a rural 5 acre property.