Welshmans Reef

Welshmans Reef is a former gold mining town 15 km west of Castlemaine and 110 km north-west of Melbourne. Its site is between the east side of the Cairn Curran Reservoir and the Maldon State Forest.

The name presumably came about from a Welshman discovering the gold-bearing reef: there were numerous Welsh and Methodist settlers at neighbouring townships such as Fryerstown and Vaughan.