Location
Herne Hill is a residential suburb 3km west-north-west of Geelong.

Description
Herne Hill has the Western Heights Secondary College (originally Geelong West Technical School, 1954) and five reserves. It has small shopping areas in Church and Autumn streets, and Minerva Road. At the north-east of the suburb, the Moorabool River runs into the mighty Barwon River.

History
Herne Hill was a suburb of the former Geelong West municipality, and before then a district between Geelong West and Fyansford. Early institutions in the district were the Western Cemetery and the Geelong Orphan Asylum, built in 1855 and later acquired by the Australian Portland Cement Company. The 'Clonard' residence built in 1855, later became the Brigidine convent and Clonard Catholic College.

Inside the Western Cemetary is a burial ground known as 'King Billy's Grave', although it carries the epitaph 'Dan Dan Nook's Tomb'. It is the grave of a respected elder of the Wudtaurong tribe. (Local Wathaurong people refer ironically to this person as King Billy since there were no kings, queens or single leaders in their culture.) Lots in Herne Hill were subdivided before 1900, but the small suburb had a census population of just 112 in 1911 and was not reached by residential expansion until later in the 20th century.