Nilma

Nilma is a small township on the Princes Freeway in Gippsland, 4 km west of Warragul and 106 km east of Melbourne.

The railway line from Melbourne to Gippsland was surveyed in the mid-1870s, prompting the selection of land in the heavily timbered district. A small settlement developed near the rail line, being named Bloomfield in 1877, probably after a place in Ireland. Until the railway opened in 1878, provisions were obtained by packhorse from Brandy Creek, about 10 km to the north-west and the nucleus of settlement in the area.