page_title: Amherst, Victoria
section_title: Early settlement
hierarchical_section_title: Amherst, Victoria / History / Early settlement
caption_attribution_description: English: Nerrena Fossickers in Nerrena Creek. Location now known as Nerrina, a suburb of Ballarat. Author unknown but was originally published 1904 in Geol. Survey, the Department of Mines Bulletin No. 15 in which W.M. Bradford described the locality as “The Nerrena or Little Bendigo Gold-field"
context_page_description: Amherst is a former municipality and gold rush town situated within the Shire of Central Goldfields in Victoria, Australia. Much of the original township has been destroyed by fire, and little remains other than Amherst Cemetery at 235 Avoca Road, Talbot.
context_section_description: The town of Amherst originally began as a mining settlement referred to as Daisy Hill or occasionally Daisy Hill Creek, which extended through the village. The actual location of Daisy Hill is still not known as it is often confused with a land division nearby in the Paddy Ranges known as the Daisy Hill Block, which was an earlier squatter survey lease in the Pyrenees. Additionally, the Colonial Police Troopers were stationed in 1849 on the highway to Maryborough at a place widely referred to as Daisy Hill. Furthermore, newspapers of that era often loosely referred to Clunes Station, 10 miles (16 km) east as the "Pyrenees".
caption: Picture of fossickers (for illustration purposes only)
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