Country Style

A KIND OF ENCHANTMENT

“We are on a generous piece of land and you can look out and see Babbington Hill and the forest.”

T PHOEBE’S COTTAGE IN Lyonville, 10 minutes from Daylesford on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Victoria, the past and the present merge peacefully. The neighbour’s flock of sheep and a blackberry-nibbling goat named Jerry add to the sleepy pastoral ambience, and the surrounding cottages match Phoebe’s in age and look. Edged by the Wombat State Forest, the township of Lyonville was established in the 1860s to support the bustling

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