St Leonards

St Leonards is a coastal township on the end of the Bellarine Peninsula facing eastwards onto Port Phillip Bay. It is 46 km south-west across the bay from central Melbourne and 30 km east of Geelong.

James Langdon took up his St Leonards pastoral station in the area in 1849, possibly taking the name from the town of that name in Sussex, England. Langdon was a partner of George Cole, a Melbourne merchant and owner of Coles Wharf on the Yarra River. Cole later operated paddle steamers in Port Phillip Bay.