Percydale is a rural locality in the Shire of Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia. It lies on the eastern slopes of the Pyrenees Range, and was part of the Victorian Goldfields from 1854. At the , Percydale had a population of 22.
History The Percydale area was known as Fiddlers Creek when alluvial gold was first identified there in 1854. A further find in 1869 led to a gold rush with a population over 2000 people when a school was opened in 1870. It appears to have been named after a son of Police Magistrate Charles Carr. The school closed in 1942. The town also had both Episcopalian and Wesleyan churches. There is a Percydale Goldfields Heritage Tour which includes visible remains of that history.
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