Previously part of a donkey farm, our 10 acre property is situated in Cotswold Valley in Selby in the Dandenong Ranges. Our property backs onto the magnificent Sherbrooke Forest, part of the Dandenong Ranges National Park. The park is part of an Aboriginal cultural landscape in the traditional Country of the Wurundjeri People. The settlement of Selby developed followed the opening of the narrow gauge railway in 1900, when the opening of the local station required a name. Selby was chosen, as a compliment to a local landowner and councillor, George Selby. The land around Selby is particularly hilly, as evidence by the curves in both the road and railway. The eastern side of the township is dominated by the steep Black HiIl. Whilst the topography limited local faming, it attracted a drove of tourists and weekenders in the 1920s. Following a landslide beyond Selby in 1953, the narrow-gauge railway fell into disuse as a regular railway and was closed the following year, only to be re-opened in 1962 as the heritage steam railway, the famous Puffing Billy.