LORNE
Lorne is the first town encountered,
when traveling west on the Great Ocean Road. Lorne a really nice
coastal town on that has a lot going for it. Heritage care is very
apparent at Lorne. 
Lorne is situated on
a bay named after Captain Louttit, who sought shelter there in 1841
while supervising the retrieval of cargo from a nearby shipwreck. The
coast was surveyed five years later in 1846. The first European
settler was William Lindsay, a timber-cutter who began felling the
area in 1849. Subdivision began in 1869 and in 1871 the town was named
after the Marquess of Lorne from Scotland. The Post Office opened on
29 April 1874.
In 1891, the area was
visited by Rudyard Kipling who was inspired to write the poem
Flowers, which included the line:
“ |
Buy my hot-wood
clematis,
Buy a frond of
fern,
Gathered where
the Erskine leaps
Down the road to
Lorne. |
” |
By 1922 the Great
Ocean Road was extended to Lorne, making the town much more
accessible.
The two Hotels in
Lorne are 100 year resort classics. Oh, to have been a part of that
era!!!!   
The United Church has
heritage recognition.
 
The Anglican equally
as old but undated.
 The
Catholic Church is modern.
The Lorne War
Memorial is in the centre of the business strip. 
Lorne is the sort of
happening town that an overnight stopover would make sense.

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