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This site has been designed to provide a comprehensive range of information to local residents and visitors to the area. Currently, the site is still being added to but, very soon, locals will be able to access information on almost every aspect of our community: news, events, community groups, notices, local businesses. It will be a pretty handy resource for all of us. And because it's a community website, it needs the kind of info that will be useful to you – so let us know what you'd like to see included here.

If you are visiting, you will discover here a lovely part of the Victorian countryside. Newham is a small village on the northern side of Hanging Rock in the heart of the Macedon Ranges. An hour from Melbourne, the village enjoys the perfect proximity to the Calder Freeway – close enough for easy access to the city, far enough not to know it's there! Newham comprises approximately 250 households on a mixture of rural and town properties. The local area is home to farmland, wineries, state forests, extinct volcanoes, cycling routes and historic sites.

History

Newham takes its name from a sheep farm established in the 1840's by settler Edward Dryden. Drawn by the opening up of pastoral land in the area and the nearby discovery of gold, white settlement in the 1850's on the slopes of the Jim Jim (a volcanic hill nearby to Hanging Rock) soon became known by the name of Dryden's Newham Station. Many of the early Newhamites were Scots settlers. One of the town's oldest buildings is the Presbyterian church opposite the primary school.