Winton Sale Yard

The history of Winton begins with a man named Robert Allen. He arrived from Aramac in 1875 and camped on the banks of Pelican Waterhole. Old Cork Station His settlement was known as Wallace's Camp. The surrounding district was already settled by farmers and squatters, with a regular mail run from Aramac to Cork Station (Pictured to the left in present day). In 1876, the settlement at Pelican Waterhole was flooded out and Robert Allen moved his hotel/store a mile eastwards. He was the first to settle the present day site. It was then that Allen, who was the Postmaster, changed the settlement's name to Winton. He decided the former names were too difficult to write on the postage stamps. So he named the town after a suburb in Bournemouth, England, in which he was born.