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Map of Deptford, VIC 3875

Deptford is a locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. In the 2016 census, Deptford had a population of 0.

A former mining town of which little remains, the Deptford locality today is entirely located in state forests, variously the Yowen-Burrun State Forest, Warriballat State Forest, Haunted Stream State Forest and the Bruthen State Forest. The former townsite, on the Nicholson River, is now the Deptford Picnic Area. The Haughtons Flat Diversion Tunnel, south of the old townsite, is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

Deptford was established in 1864, replacing the nearby Store Creek settlement as the service town for the Nicholson River Goldfield. Mining in the area was largely shaft-based across three main reefs, with some small-scale alluvial prospecting in the Nicholson River. The population varied over the decades depending on the state of the mining industry, peaking at approximately 300.

In 1867, the town had two stores, two butchers' shops and a bakery, with two hotels under construction. The Gippsland Times said of Deptford: "The manners and customs of the place are of a primitive nature, interspersed with a good deal of drinking and civil fights, especially on Saturday nights, a good index that there is money in circulation". The town had no doctors, clergymen or policemen at that time. All buildings apart from the store, a hotel and three timber houses were reportedly "simple bush structures of spars and bark".

The Travellers' Rest Hotel (also known as the Miners' Rest Hotel) opened in 1865, was extended in 1894, and burned down in 1905.
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