Wellington is another long lost Settlement in the parish of Duneed. Maybe it never became a township as very little is known of it. From accounts at the time it seems to be situated near the junction of Drewry Lane, Cape Otway, Hunts and Mount Duneed Roads.
The first mention of Wellington was in the published diary of Rev James Bickford. He visited the area in January 1856 to find out if the residents of the district wanted a Wesleyan church. Services were held in the home of the Dow family until John Rout Hopkins offered land for the church to be built. This was conditional on it being built of brick or stone. Hopkins was married to Eliza, daughter of George Armytage who owned many blocks in this area. In July 1867 Rev Bickford again visited the area to select land for the church. The foundation stone for the church was laid in April 1868 and the first service was held later that year. Rev Bickford officiated at the opening service.
​In 1871 a petition was presented to Council to have the road grubbed and cleared from the chapel to Thomsons Creek.
​The last known reference to Wellington was in the council minuted in 1899. ​

Walter Burville was born in Whites Road in 1871. His parents were John and Mary Ann (née Radford) Burvill. The spelling of the name changed from Burvill to Burville in this generation. He purchased part of Armstrong's station and old homestead and took his bride Sarah née Barlow, to live there. The aboriginals were living near Armstrong's Creek and often called at the homestead for food and tobacco. The old property was bought to become the cemetery and crematorium for the Geelong district. He took an active part in activities of the Grovedale Methodist Church. He was secretary of the Sunday School from July 1892 until 1899 when he became superintendent, a position he held until his death in November 1946, at the age of 75 years. He served for a total of forty seven years. He was a trustee of the church and proposed the following scheme in 1922 to raise £1,000 to go towards the erection of a new and larger church:
​"That 20 acres of peas be planted each year for 10 years to yield on average 7 bags per acre. These 140 bags could be sold at 5/- per bushel to yield £105. Threshing and manure costs per annum £20. £85 net return per year with compound interest would in ten years yield £1,000." This money was raised and stayed in the building fund for decades.

His wife Sarah was an organist in the church for over forty years. The Ladies' Guild donated a new pulpit in her memory after her death in July 1952 at the age of 83 years 11 months.

His sister Alice, born 1873, was a Sunday School teacher and treasurer. She married August Hartwich and had two daughters and three sons. She died on 10 September 1958 at the age of 84 years. They are buried at the Geelong Eastern Cemetery. The name Hartwich was changed to Hartwick, probably about the time of WW1.

​His son Harry became a Sunday School teacher in December 1929 and took over as superintendent at the end of 1946. He stayed in this position until July 1956 when he went to Bellbrae to help with their Sunday School. He became a trustee at Grovedale Methodist Church on 30 March 1933, serving for many years. He sang in the choir for many years and is remembered for his lovely tenor voice. He died in December 1974 at the age of 66. Harry and his wife Eunice lived on their dairy farm in Burvilles Road. Harry's schooling was in Mount Duneed. In later years they built on the corner of Whites and Torquay Roads. Their four children attended Mount Duneed School. Eunice died on 7 January 2011 at the age of 96 years.
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Walter's grandmother had a millinery business in Geelong for many years trading under the name of "Burwell".

​John Burvill bought the land on the corner of Torquay Road and Whites Road in 1854. He and his wife had three sons and five daughters. He was a  teacher and superintendent of the Grovedale Methodist Sunday School for thirty-six years. Fourteen acres of this land was sold to Robert Broughton in 1876.

​Mr L Burville was president of the Grovedale Methodist Cricket Club which was formed in 1933 in the Geelong and District Churches Association. On two occasions it reached the final series.
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The Burville family were of French descent. They have been traced back to France to about 1600 when the family name was "de Burville".  As Hugenots, they fled to England for religious and political reasons where they settled in Kent. In the 1850s members of the family migrated to Australia. Burvilles Road, Mount Duneed is named after the Burville family who lived along the road, and remained there until relatively recently. The earliest member was probably John Burvill. Later Walter Burville lived there.

​In August 1872 3r 2p sold to NW Keanan for £13.15s and 1r 38p to G Pacholke for £3.4s near the Roman Catholic Church site of 2 acres on the east side of Germantown (now Torquay) Road. These blocks were just south of Waurn Ponds Creek

​Grovedale Recreation Reserve consists of about 15 acres between Perrett Street and Reserve Road. It has a cricket area that converts to two  soccer pitches. The Grovedale United Services Memorial Hall is in the north western section (allotment 1). It was built in 1949 as a tribute to the men and women of the district who had served their country. In the 1960s a baby health centre which was built to the east of the hall was open on Tuesday mornings. This was demolished 1970 when the kindergarten was built in Heyers Road, west of the shops.

The block below marked "Reserve" contained the scout hall with a large quarry behind it which was in the process of being filled in the 1960s.

​The boundaries of the blocks fronting the east side of Torquay Road were shifted back in the 1960s to allow for the widening of the road.

2 acres was reserved for Wesleyan and Lutheran churches adjoining the reserve in Torquay Road and a Roman Catholic church not far south of Waurn Ponds Creek also in Torquay Road. The first Lutheran church which was made of mud walls with a grass roof, was built in 1854 next to the cemetery in Church Street on land donated by Samuel Roehr. The first church service, conducted by Pastor Matthias Goethe, was held on 24 June 1854. This building was also used as a school which was the first Lutheran school in Victoria. The first teacher was Mr Stanger from 1854 to 1858. Robert Renzow was the next teacher. In 1868 a new school number 283 was erected in Bailey Street on land donated by Robert Renzow. A new stone church, named Holy Trinity, was built on the east side of Torquay Road (allotment 6) in 1859 and dedicated on 26 December. A manse had been built in 1855. This Lutheran church had closed by 1949 and was being used by a mechanic as a garage until the 1970s when shops were built on the site. Used cars were once sold at the garage.

A rift occurred in the congregation and another Lutheran church, St Paul's, was built and decicated in March 1871 on the west side of Torquay Road. George Heyer was the pastor. The road near the church was named after him.

In 1855 the Wesleyans were the first denomination to build a church at Grovedale. It was replaced by a church built in 1869 on the corner of Torquay and Reserve Roads. It became a Methodist church on 1 January 1902 when the Primitive Methodists, the Wesleyans and the Bible Christians united to form the Methodist Church of Australasia. The name on the headstone was changed in 1917. It was built of bluestone from Mount Duneed and the freestone from Benjamin Holdsworth's quarry on the Colac Road at Waurn Ponds. The foundation stone was laid by the Mayor of Geelong, Thomas N Couves, in the presence of about fifty spectators. The ceremony took place on the afternoon of 25 March 1869 about 5pm. Rev James Bickford led the proceedings and concluded by the singing of the doxology. A tea meeting followed.
Before the Sunday School was built tea meetings were held in a large tent with tan bark strewn over the floor. The architect of the 1969 church was Robert Smith Tuffs, a surveyor who lived in the Grovedale area. He was on the first council of the Shire of South Barwon, serving from 1957 to 1860 and the first engineer of the shire from 1861 to 1890. ​The timber buildings at the rear of the church were demolished to make way for a new brick building.

The Mount Duneed Wesleyan Methodist Church which was erected in 1857 by John Parkes Hope on a block in the recreation reserve was destroyed by fire in 1944. The map above shows the block on the south side of Russells Road where the church once stood. To the east of this block the road is unmade. The block on the north-east corner of the reserve which is in Williams Road was once a quarry and is now occupied by the pistol club. The south-east corner of the reserve was once reserved for the Presbyterian Church but this was never built. To the north of the Presbyterian Church block is the cemetery. The entrance to the pony club is to the west of the Methodist church.​