Maddingley Park

Picturesque Maddingley Park is located in Bacchus Marsh Victoria approximately 1.5 kilometres from the Central Business District.

Maddingley Park was constructed over 150 years ago and contains many attractions from huge river redgum trees to historical remnants such as the ANA Memorial Gates, Dickie Bandstand and Evans Pavilion.

A magnificent sporting oval is home to the Bacchus Marsh Football & Netball Club and the Bacchus Marsh Cricket Club.

The famous lawn tennis courts of the Bacchus Marsh Lawn Tennis Club line the north side of the Park.

Outdoor furniture, a substantial play ground and shelters are scattered throughout the Park with easy access to all facilities including the Bacchus Marsh Railway Station only 100 metres from an entrance.

For more information contact Moorabool Shire offices
Phone: (03) 5366 7100
E-mail: info@moorabool.vic.gov.au

Maddingley Park Committee of Management
Maddingley Park is a combination of both Crown Land and Moorabool Shire Council owned and is administered by a totally Volunteer Committee of Management.

The Maddingley Park Committee of Management is made up of all user groups of the Park and representatives from the community of Bacchus Marsh.

The Committee of Management meet monthly on Tuesday evenings at the new Maddingley Club Rooms located inside the Park commencing at 7.30pm.

The Charter of the Committee is to maintain and enhance the features of the Park and promote the facilities and events that are conducted there.

One of the main aims is to recognise and preserve our great history and also to plan for the future improvements to facilities.

Friends of Maddingley Park

For many years the sporting user groups in the park have conducted joint meetings aimed at increasing co operation between groups and acting as an advisory group to the municipal council. The formation of the Management Committee resulting in a greater participation by user groups and saw the introduction of representatives from the wider community. As well as general community representatives bodies such as the Historical Society and Garden Club were invited to nominate members to sit on the Management Committee. More recently the Management Committee created a Botanical Sub committee to promote the non sporting aspects of the park. From this sub committee has arisen the active working group the Friend of Maddingley Park.

The Friend Group are meeting regularly on the third Sunday of the month (10a.m. to midday) when maintenance work is carried out on the gardens with the focus in recent times being directed at the rose garden and entrance area to the park.

Coming Events & Some Historical Notes

SOME SHORT HISTORY
Maddingley Park Iron Gates (ANA Memorial Taverner Street Entrance)
These gates were listed on the Heritage Register on 21/11/2000.
They were erected at Maddingley Park in 1922. The gates are a notable late 19th century entrance gates, made in Scotland of cast iron and possessing various decorative materials. the gates were originally located in the north east corner of Orrong and Balaclava Roads as gates to the grounds of a Caulfield mansion. they were probably installed as part of the extensive rebuildling of Judge Billing's old house in 1890 for Alexanda William Robertson, a director of the Cobb and Co coaching empire. The gates were cast by Walter Macfarlane's foundry in Glasgow, Scotland.

T.G & E Pearce Memorial Gates.
These gates located at the other main entrance to the Park from Station Street stand as a memorial to previous trustees of the Park, Mr T.G Pearce and later his brother Mr. E Pearce.

'The gates were constructed in fancy metal work, painted green and gold, and hung in reinforced concrete piers. 10ft high, cement faced, and coloured cream; the pair of main gates (12 feet wide) are flanked with two passenger gates (4 feet wide), and these footways are flanked again with 20 feet wings, the whole making a crescent some 60 feet in width.'

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