Narbethong

Narbethong, 65 km north-east of Melbourne, is midway between Healesville and Marysville. It is on the former Yarra Track, the route from Melbourne to the Gippsland goldfields in the 1860s. In 1864 the track was surveyed and by 1866 a number of proposed towns along it were also surveyed. Narbethong was laid out in 1865, at a spot where Frederick Fisher had built a timber shanty where the track crossed a creek. Fisher came from near Narberth in Wales, which suggests an origin of the proposed township's name. The addition of ‘ong’ to the name was common to several Victorian towns at the time.