Flesherton
Flesherton, Ontario | |
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Former Village | |
Munshaw House, built in 1864 as a stage coach stop at the junction of Toronto-Sydenham Road and Durham Road. | |
| Nickname: Gateway to the Beaver Valley | |
| Coordinates: 44°15′42.56″N 80°33′1.72″W / 44.2618222°N 80.5504778°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| Settled | 1850 |
| Population (2016) | |
• Total | 584 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern) |
| Postal code | N0C 1E0 |
| Area code | 519 / 226 / 548 |
| Highways | Highway 10 |
Flesherton (population 584) is a community in the Municipality of Grey Highlands, in Grey County, Ontario, Canada, located at the junction of Highway 10 and Grey County Road 4 (formerly Highway 4). Although the area initially showed a high rate of growth in the 1850s and its founder believed that it would become an important centre of economic activity, growth stagnated when an all-important rail link bypassed it, and the community never grew larger than a small village. The self-proclaimed "Gateway to the Beaver Valley" recently lost its autonomy as a village when it was amalgamated with the surrounding Artemesia Township.