MANSFIELD
Mansfield is a medium size town that
is the gateway to Mount Buller. The town is on a spur and the traveler
will be on an ‘in and out’ trip to visit. Mansfield is reliant on the
ski season and outside of that period is quiet. Mansfield is a typical
Victorian town but is also unremarkable. In short not worth any sort
of extra effort to visit. That said there are some aspects of
Mansfield that are pleasing.
Mansfield was formerly heavily dependent on farming
and logging, but is now a tourist-centre. It is the support town for
the large Australia ski resort Mount Buller. It is associated with the
High Country tradition of alpine grazing, celebrated in the film The
Man from Snowy River, which was made around Mansfield, near the now
famous Craig’s Hut (based on a poem Banjo Paterson with the same
name).
Mansfield, originally known as Mount Battery, was
at the boundary of a number of pastoral runs, and a township was
surveyed in 1851 and named Mansfield.
Mansfield is famous as part of the Ned Kelly Trail.
Significant memorials include the Memorial to Police erected in the
centre of the town's roundabout. Mansfield Cemetery is the burial
ground for police officers slain by Ned Kelly and his gang at
Stringybark Creek.
The churches in Mansfield are ‘old’ and near
century buildings.     
The Hotels are attractive and prosperous pubs.  
There are numerous memorials in Mansfield. 
The Mansfield War Memorial is represented by the
gates to the Memorial Park.
There are numerous coffee shops and an hour or two
is recommended.

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