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Location:
Rokewood Cemetery is off Carrs Lane, 1.6 km north west of the Rokewood township, which is about 70 km north west of Geelong.
Melway reference:
926 J5
Facilities:
None
Manager:
Rokewood Cemetery Trust.
Notes:
The cemetery was set up in the 1870s on approximately 5 ha.
Rokewood Cemetery contains a good example of Plains Grassland. The cemetery site contains a number of grassland species including Feather-heads, Billy Buttons and Sundews. The grassland area is regularly burnt for biomass removal every second summer to provide suitable conditions for the Button Wrinklewort, Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides.
Further information:
The Rokewood Cemetery is of historical, social, architectural and scientific (botanical) significance to the Golden Plains Shire.
Latitude:
-37.888986
Longitude:
143.712175
