Buttlejorrk is a parish of the County of Bourke located to the west of Sunbury, in Victoria, Australia and a neighbourhood within the locality of Diggers Rest. It was named in 1839 by the surveyor William Darke. A township developed and was initially known as Aitken's Gap, after settler and farmer John Aitken and was the first staging stop for miners on their way to the Bendigo gold fields. Hotels (the Gap Inn, the Manchester Hotel and the Bald Hill Hotel) and stores were erected in the vicinity, and in 1854 the Government moved to formalise the township. The original Gap Inn and a store (in which a post office was established in 1856) were located in the middle of the main street of the Government’s later survey. Archaeological evidence remains of the Gap Inn and Bald Hill Hotel. By the 1890s it had commonly become known as Buttlejorrk. The present location of the Calder Freeway was once the main road (Victoria Street) through Aitken’s Gap with various smaller streets crossing it. This formed part of the main town with the remainder of the town stretching as far west as Koroit Creek. This area is now known as Digger’s Rest, the town’s name arising from the diggers (miners) who would rest here on their way to the gold fields.
At the cache site was once the thriving Bald Hill Hotel established by George Millet and his wife Suzanne. The hotel was licensed in 1853 until 1907. Across the road from the cache site you will find a capped water well that was the water supply for the hotel.
BYO pen and small swaps only.