Brown Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria

Ballarat, Victoria

Ballarat is a city in the state of Victoria, Australia, approximately west-north-west of the state capital Melbourne situated on the lower plains of the Great Dividing Range and the Yarrowee River catchment. It is the largest inland centre and third most populous city in the state and the fifth...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 on the eastern rural-urban fringe of the city. The population at the 2006 census was 2,057.

Brown Hill is almost entirely residential, containing the east campus of Ballarat Secondary College, Caledonian Primary School, Saint Francis Xavier College (a catholic Prep - Year 6 Primary School) and Brown Hill Kindergarten.

The unbounded neighbourhood of Woodmans Hill37°33′30"S 143°54′38"E is located in the east adjacent to Warrenheip.

Parks and open space

Brown Hill has several sporting fields, including the 18 hole Mount Xavier Golf Course. There is also the Brown Hill Pool, a 25 Metre publicly owned unheated pool. Brown Hill has a cricket club which competes in the Ballarat Cricket Association. The training ground in Brown Hill is known as Progress Park, and the hard wicket there is used in home games for the club's third and fourth eleven, as well as junior matches. The club's first and second grades play home matches on the turf wicket at the Western Oval in Ballarat.