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Oversized cricket bats forming the entrance feature at Cricket Willow near Daylesford.
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Big Cricket Bats – Shepherds Flat
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Approximate location · 37.289° S, 144.117° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
Oversized cricket bats at the entrance to a place that grows the timber bats are made from.
Cricket Willow at Shepherds Flat is the reason. English willow – the specific variety used for bat blades – was planted here, and the property has a long association with growing and milling it in Australia rather than importing clefts from England. That makes the bats at the gate a genuine produce sign rather than a sporting tribute: the same relationship a giant orange has to an orchard.
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WHAT TO EXPECT
Current Cricket Willow material confirms the visitor venue remains operating by appointment at 355 Hepburn–Newstead Road, Shepherds Flat, while current Victorian Big Things material identifies the oversized cricket bats at the same site.
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Navigate to Cricket Willow at 355 Hepburn–Newstead Road. The venue is open by appointment, so access should be treated as restricted to current visitor arrangements rather than assumed walk-in access.
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