Map of Cornish Hill Daylesford

Map of Cornish Hill Daylesford

In 1994, the then Victorian Department of Conservation and Natural Resources proposed selling the 47.5 hectare parcel of Crown Land for housing development, but a group of concerned residents formed an action plan in order to save it as a historic precinct and for the establishment of flora and fauna of the Central Highlands.

Today the management of Cornish Hill as a Crown Land Reserve is the responsibility of a Community Committee of Management. A group called ‘Friends of Cornish Hill’ carries out all hands on work on the Hill.

Generous grants from a number of funding bodies and input from a group of enthusiastic volunteers has enabled great progress to be made in controlling the weeds and re-establishing the local plants that were once endemic before gold mining disturbance.