Welcome to Pennyroyal.

Pennyroyal is a rural locality in Victoria, Australia. Most of the locality is situated in the Surf Coast Shire;

a small section is situated in the Shire of Colac Otway. In the 2016 census, Pennyroyal had a population of 86.

Pennyroyal is a small rural locality; while it once had a post office, church, school,

and railway station for carting local produce, they have long since closed.

Pennyroyal Creek Post Office opened on 15 August 1887 and closed on 14 January 1955. 

St Michael's Church of England opened in 1885 and closed in 1950.

Pennyroyal Creek State School (No. 1204) opened in 1873, moved to a new site in 1916, and closed in 1982.

The Birregurra-Forrest railway line opened in 1891. A station called "Arlett's Corner"

opened with the line and was renamed Pennyroyal in September of that year. The line closed in 1957.

The Pennyroyal Public Hall opened in 1912, and survives to the present day.

Pennyroyal is located in a lush valley, and is now known for tourism and dairy and berry farming.

It has two berry farms which are open to the public. The Pennyroyal Creek Bushland Reserve is located in

Pennyroyal, and the locality adjoins the Otway Forest Park and Great Otway National Park.

 

The Pennyroyal Public Hall opened in 1912, the land was generously donated by the Gannon family.

The hall was the place for all our functions; Euchre nights, wedding celebrations, dance nights, school concerts,

birthday parties, remembering past loved ones and tennis club functions. If you speak to any of the locals,

they'll reminisce of the days gone by when they used to visit the hall. When the ceiling collapsed,

it prompted Colac Otway Shire officials to close the hall in March 2015 and all access was revoked.

In May 2019, after 4 long years, countless meetings and phone calls, the Colac Otway Shire

decided to gift the hall back to Pennyroyal Hall Incorporated (100% volunteers).

 

We still need to do some minor works to the inside of the hall but we are getting there slowly.

 

All money raised will be used to repair and restore the hall to its former glory.

It may take some time, but our committee will make it happen with the help of your contribution.

Thankyou.

 

ABOUT US

The purposes of our association (Pennyroyal Hall Incorporated) are —
 To enable a space for all community members to meet, interact, connect, share knowledge,
provide opportunities for learning, health & wellbeing and social connection.
We aim to bring together people of all ages and backgrounds to engage in activities and programs in a
safe, warm and inclusive space, free from all discrimination.