Henty Highway

Henty Highway is a rural highway in western Victoria, Australia, linking Lascelles in the Wimmera region, to Portland on the state's soith-western coast.^[5] It was named in honour of Edward Henty, a British colonist regarded as the first permanent European settler of the Port Phillip District (in what later became the Colony of Victoria), in the town eventually named Portland.

Henty Highway Victoria
Map of south-eastern Australia with Henty Highway highlighted in green
Coordinates	35.620084°S 142.581573°E / -35.620084; 142.581573 (North end) 38.356509°S 141.611238°E / -38.356509; 141.611238 (South end)
General information
Type	Highway
Length	359 km (223 mi)[1]
Gazetted	November 1914 (as Main Road)[2] August 1938 (as State Highway)[3]
Route number(s)	B200 (1998–present) (Lascelles–Horsham) A200 (1998–present) (Horsham–Portland)
Former route number	State Route 107 (1986–1998)
Major junctions
North end	Sunraysia Highway Lascelles, Victoria
	Borung Highway Wimmera Highway Western Highway Glenelg Highway Princes Highway
South end	Madeira Packet Road Portland, Victoria
Location(s)
Region	Grampians, Barwon South West[4]
Major settlements	Hopetoun, Warracknabeal, Horsham, Hamilton, Heywood
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Victoria

Route

Henty Highway commences at the intersection with Sunraysia Highway in Lascelles, Victoria and heads in a south-westerly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway rural highway, reaching Hopetoun before heading in a southerly direction and passing through Warracknabeal, before meeting Wimmera Highway in Dooen and contiunes south concurrently with it before reaching the major regional city of Horsham, where it widens to a four-lane road and runs concurrently with Western Highway through the centre of the city, before Wimmera Highway diverts west towards Naracoorte, South Australia a short distance later, and then continues south on its own alignment, through Brimpaen, Cavendish and Hamilton, before meeting Princes Highway in Heywood and continues south concurrently with it until Bolwarra. It continues south on its own alignment until it eventually terminates at the intersection with Madeira Packet Road in the southern suburbs of Portland.

History

The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912^[6] through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. Hamilton-Portland Road from Hamilton to Branxholme, and Hamilton-Horsham Road from Hamilton to Brimpaen, were declared Main Roads on 16 November 1914,^[2] the rest of Hamilton-Portland Road from Branxholme to Bolwarra just north of Portland was declared a Main Road on 30 November 1914,^[7] Hopetoun-Warracknabeal Road from Hopetoun to Beulah was declared a Main Road on 14 December 1914,^[8] (Horsham-) Dooen Road from Horsham to Dooen and the rest of Hamilton-Horsham Road from Brimpaen to Horsham was declared a Main Road on 17 March 1915,^[9] and the rest of Hopetoun-Warracknabeal Road from Warracknabeal to Beulah was declared a Main Road on 31 March 1915.^[10]

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924^[11] provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board. Henty Highway was declared a State Highway in August 1938,^[3] cobbled together from roads between Mildura, Warracknabeal, Horsham, and Hamilton to Portland (for a total of 263 miles), subsuming the original declaration of Hamilton-Portland Road, Hamilton-Horsham Road, Horsham-Dooen Road and Hopetoun-Warracknabeal Road as Main Roads; before this declaration, this road was also referred to as Hopetoun(-Lascelles) Road.^[12] It originally started from Calder Highway in Nunga, the junction south of Ouyen; when North-Western Highway was renamed Sunraysia Highway on 11 September 1972, and extended from Lascelles to Nunga, Henty Highway was truncated back to Lascelles.^[13] The southern end of the highway through Portland was changed in January 1987: from New and Percy and Gawler Streets terminating at the intersection of Gawler, Cliff and Bentick Streets in central Portland, to its current alignment along Port Road and the southern section of Portland-Nelson Road to the intersection with Wellington Road in Portland's southern suburbs.^[14]

Henty Highway was signed as State Route 107 between Portland and Lascelles in 1986;^[15] with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route A200 between Portland and Horsham, and B200 between Horsham and Lascelles.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004^[16] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2007, VicRoads re-declared the road as Henty Highway (Arterial #6620) between Sunraysia Highway in Lascelles and Madeira Packet Road at Portland.^[5]

Upgrades

• 1949 – 8-mile (13 km) deviation of the Henty Highway as a result of proposed inundation following the construction of the Rocklands Reservoir dam on the Glenelg River, between Cavendish and Cherrypool.^[17]

Major intersections and towns

LGA	Location[1][5]	km[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Glenelg	Portland	0.0	0.0	Madeira Packet Road (C194 east) – Port area Henty Highway Link Road (south) – South Portland	Southern terminus of highway and route A200
		2.4	1.5	Madeira Packet Road (C194) – South Portland
		3.7	2.3	Bridgewater Road (C193 west) – Portland West, Cape Bridgewater Otway Street (east) – Portland
		4.7	2.9	Portland–Nelson Road (C192) – Nelson
		5.0	3.1	Portland railway line
		6.1	3.8	New Street – Portland
	Bolwarra	8.7	5.4	Princes Highway (A1 east) – Warrnambool	Southern terminus of concurrency with route A1
	Heathmere	20.6	12.8	Portland railway line
	Heywood	29.5	18.3	Woolsthorpe–Heywood Road (C176/C191) – Woolsthorpe, Warrnambool
		30.0	18.6	Princes Highway (A1 west) – Mount Gambier	Northern terminus of concurrency with route A1
	Myamyn	46.0	28.6	Myamin–Macarthur Road (C186) – Macarthur
		49.3	30.6	Portland railway line
Southern Grampians	Hamilton	75.2	46.7
		86.5	53.7	Hamilton–Port Fairy Road (C184) – Port Fairy
		87.5	54.4	Dartmoor–Hamilton Road (C187) – Dartmoor
		88.3	54.9	Glenelg Highway (B160 east) – Ballarat, Geelong	Concurrency with route B160
		90.6	56.3	Glenelg Highway (B160 west) – Casterton, Mount Gambier
	Cavendish	113	70	Dunkeld–Cavendish Road (C188 northwest) – Dunkeld	Southern terminus of concurrency with route C188
Wannon River		114	71	Bridge name unknown
Southern Grampians	Cavendish	114	71	Natimuk–Hamilton Road (C188 southeast) – Balmoral	Northern terminus of concurrency with route C188
Glenelg River		169	105	Bridge name unknown
Horsham	Horsham	215	134	Western Highway (A8 east) – Ararat, Ballarat, Melbourne	Southern terminus of concurrency with route A8
		216	134	Horsham–Lubeck Road (C215) – Longerenong, Lubeck
Wimmera River				Bridge name unknown
Horsham	Horsham	217	135	Wimmera Highway (B240 west) – Edenhope, Naracoorte	Southern terminus of concurrency with route B240
		218	135	Western Highway (A8 west) – Dimboola, Bordertown, Adelaide	Northern terminus of concurrency with route A8 Route transition: route A200 south, route B200 north
	Dooen	227	141	Wimmera Highway (B240 east) – Murtoa, St Arnaud, Bendigo	Northern terminus of concurrency with route B240
	Byrneville	244	152	Horsham–Minyip Road (C236) – Minyip, Donald
Yarriambiack	Warracknabeal	274	170	Stawell–Warracknabeal Road (B210) – Stawell, Melbourne
				Borung Highway (C234 west) – Dimboola	Concurrency with route C234
		275	171	Warracknabeal–Rainbow Road (C245 west) – Rainbow Borung Highway (C234 east) – Donald, Charlton
	Beulah	309	192	Birchip–Rainbow Road (C243) – Birchip, Rainbow
	Hopetoun	331	206	Hopetoun railway line
		334	208	Hopetoun–Rainbow Road (C227) – Rainbow
		338	210	Hopetoun–Walpeup Road (C247) – Walpeup
		342	213	Hopetoun–Sea Lake Road (C246) – Sea Lake
	Lascelles	359	223	Sunraysia Highway (B220) – Ouyen, Mildura	Northern terminus of highway and route B200
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Route transition

See also

• Australian Roads portal
• Australia portal

• Highways in Australia
• Highways in Victoria

References

1. "Henty Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
2. "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 25 November 1914. p. 5288. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
3. "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1939". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 10 November 1939. p. 4.
4. "Victoria's Regions". Regional Development Victoria. Victoria State Government. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
5. VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads 2024" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 939. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
6. An Act relating to Country Roads State of Victoria, 23 December 1912
7. "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 9 December 1914. p. 5529. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
8. "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 23 December 1914. p. 5856. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
9. "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 24 March 1915. p. 1099. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
10. "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 9 April 1915. p. 1314. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
11. An Act to make further provision with respect to Highways and Country Roads Motor Cars and Traction Engines and for other purposes State of Victoria, 30 December 1924
12. "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twenty-First Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1934". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 19 November 1934. pp. 68, 70, 72.
13. "Country Roads Board Victoria. Sixtieth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1973". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1973. p. 14.
14. "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 14 January 1987. pp. 82–4. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
15. "Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1986". Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 24 November 1986. p. 42.
16. State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
17. "Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Sixth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1949". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1949. p. 14.