The Gap

The Gap was a village 3 km west of Sunbury, situated on the Calder Highway. Its perimeter streets included today’s Napier and Nichol Streets.

It was named after Aitken’s Gap, which described a route between several hills in the district. The village was at the northern foot of a hill named Mount Tophet; another hill, Mount Aitken, is about 5 km north-west. The village was named after John Aitken, a Port Phillip pastoralist who took up the Mount Aitken run in 1836 and built his homestead a few kilometres west of The Gap.