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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type     = town
| name     = Yellingbo
| state    = vic
| image    = 
| caption  = 
| lga      = Shire of Yarra Ranges
| alternative_location_map = Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne
| coordinates = {{coord|37.81|S|145.51|E|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_label_position = left
| postcode = 3139
| pop      = 582
| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}
| pop_footnotes = <ref name="ABS2021">{{cite web |title=2021 Census QuickStats Yellingbo |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL22925 |website=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=9 July 2022}}</ref>
| est      = 
| stategov = [[Electoral district of Eildon|Eildon]]
| stategov2 = [[Electoral district of Monbulk|Monbulk]]
| fedgov   = [[Division of Casey|Casey]]
| dist1    = 48
| location1= [[Melbourne]]
| dist2    = 22
| location2= [[Belgrave, Victoria|Belgrave]]
| dist3    = 22
| location3= [[Lilydale, Victoria|Lilydale]]
| near-nw  = [[Macclesfield, Victoria|Macclesfield]]
| near-n   = [[Seville, Victoria|Seville]]
| near-ne  = [[Hoddles Creek, Victoria|Hoddles Creek]]
| near-w   = [[Macclesfield, Victoria|Macclesfield]]
| near-e   = [[Hoddles Creek, Victoria|Hoddles Creek]]
| near-sw  = [[Macclesfield, Victoria|Macclesfield]]
| near-s   = [[Cockatoo, Victoria|Cockatoo]]
| near-se  = [[Gembrook, Victoria|Gembrook]]
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'''Yellingbo''' is a town in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]], 48&nbsp;km east from [[Melbourne|Melbourne's]] [[Melbourne city centre|central business district]], located within the [[Shire of Yarra Ranges]] [[Local government areas of Victoria|local government area]]. Yellingbo recorded a population of 582 at the {{CensusAU|2021}}.<ref name=ABS2021/>

==History==
The town formed around a store opened by James Claxton in 1883 next to Woori Yallock Creek, and was initially known as "Claxton".<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Kasel, Sabine|year=2001|title=Human and Natural Impacts on the Upper Yarra Region with Reference to the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve: a Review|journal=The Victorian Naturalist|volume=118|issue=4|pages=127–141, page 129|url=https://archive.org/stream/VictorianNatura118Fiel/VictorianNatura118Fiel_djvu.txt}}</ref> When Claxton died his brother-in-law Henry Parslow and nephew Christopher John Parslow continued to run the store, and built a bridge over the [[Woori Yallock Creek]] there, whence the town was known as "Parslow's Bridge".<ref name="Suburbs">{{Cite news|title=The A-Z story of Melbourne's suburbs: Yellingbo|date=7 January 2014|newspaper=Herald Sun|location=Melbourne|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/the-az-story-of-melbournes-suburbs/story-fni0fit3-1226796054871|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107034004/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/the-az-story-of-melbournes-suburbs/story-fni0fit3-1226796054871|archive-date=7 January 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
The post office opened a receiving office around 1902 as "Parslow's" and a full post office in 1927<ref>{{Cite web| publisher = Phoenix Auctions History  | title = Post Office List - Parslow | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Parslow*|access-date=10 February 2021}}</ref> with Christopher Parslow as postmaster. In August 1946 it was renamed "Yellingbo" after the last [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] resident, his name literally meaning "today" in the [[Woiwurrung language]].<ref name="Suburbs" /><ref name = "a">{{Cite web|publisher = Phoenix Auctions History  | title = Post Office List - Yellingbo | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Yellingbo*|access-date=10 February 2021}}</ref> The post office was closed on 23 February 1991.<ref name = "a" />

==The town today==
Yellingbo's town area contains a public hall, [[Country Fire Authority|CFA]], general store and tennis courts, as well as the Waterfall Art Gallery. The primary school closed in 2015.

==Biodiversity==
Nearby is the [[Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve]], which contains three of the state of Victoria's emblems: The last remaining wild population of the state bird, the [[helmeted honeyeater]] (''Lichenostomus melanops cassidix''). The geographically isolated state animal, [[Leadbeater's possum]] (''Gymnobelideus leadbeateri''). Finally, [[Epacris impressa|common-pink heath]] (''Epacris impressa'') is the state floral emblem.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://maps.google.com/maps?q=-37.812129,145.506811&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.812129,145.506811&spn=0.00807,0.012703&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-37.812129,145.506811&panoid=or_NE3Anns8SusWDNdZg8w&cbp=1,112.5187880957775,,0,16.956455661031295/  Google Street View- Yellingbo- Parslows Road]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/future/Transcripts/s1190750.htm Helmeted Honeyeater] ([[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] - George Negus Tonight) 1 September 2004
* [http://www.zoo.org.au/education/factsheets/bir-hemetedhoneyeater.pdf Fact Sheet - Helmeted Honeyeater] (Zoology Victoria)

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[[Category:Towns in Victoria (state)]]
[[Category:Yarra Valley]]
[[Category:Yarra Ranges Shire]]
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