When you buy land at Berthon Park, you’re not just buying an address — you’re buying a place with a genuine story. One that stretches back almost 170 years, to the very earliest days of European settlement in the Golden Plains.
Henry de Crillon Berthon and the Lullote Homestead
The name Berthon Park comes from Henry de Crillon Berthon, who arrived on this land in June 1856 and established one of the earliest pastoral runs in the region. He named the property “Lullote” — and the original homestead, which still stands on the estate today, is a remarkable connection to that founding chapter.
Berthon was a man of ambition and vision. He recognised what the Golden Plains had to offer: fertile soils, a reliable river corridor, and vast open country with real agricultural potential. He was right. The land he chose is still, 170 years later, among the most beautiful and productive countryside in regional Victoria.
Generations of Pastoral Life
After Berthon’s time, the property passed through various hands, each contributing to the rich pastoral history of the region. For generations, this corner of the Golden Plains was sheep and cattle country — broad acres managed by farming families who shaped the landscape and the community around them.
The heritage of that pastoral life is still visible today. In the ancient River Red Gums that line the property boundaries, some of them hundreds of years old. In the gently rolling paddocks that carry the memory of seasons past. In the stone fences, the old timber structures, and the Leigh River that has wound through this valley since long before any European set foot here.
Inverleigh: A Town with Deep Roots
The township of Inverleigh, just minutes from Berthon Park, has its own remarkable history. It was an important stopping point on the route between Geelong and the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s — a place where travellers rested, supplies were loaded, and communities formed in the rush and chaos of the gold era.
That sense of being a genuine, rooted community — not a development, but a place — has never left Inverleigh. Today it’s a town of perhaps 600 people, with a pub, a general store, sporting clubs, churches, and the kind of neighbourliness that’s become genuinely rare.
Protecting What Matters
When Ramsey Property Group and Oliver Hume Real Estate Group developed Berthon Park as a residential land estate, they made a deliberate commitment: to protect the heritage of the place, not erase it.
That’s why the ancient trees have been preserved. Why the road layout respects the natural contours of the land. Why the estate’s entrance features hand-carved sculptures made from fallen heritage eucalypts — a living tribute to the trees that have stood here for centuries.
It’s also why the Lullote homestead, now over 160 years old, remains standing — a quiet anchor to the past in the middle of a community being built for the future.
Your Chapter in This Story
When you build a home at Berthon Park, you become part of this long and layered history. Your family’s story is added to a place that has known many stories — of settlers and farmers, of seasons and floods and droughts, of community gatherings and quiet evenings under the same sky.
There aren’t many new estates that can offer that. But Berthon Park can.
To find out more about available lots and the Berthon Park story, visit berthonpark.com.au or call 0440 133 661.