Buttlejorrk is a parish of the County of Bourke located to the west of Sunbury, in Victoria, Australia and a neighbourhood within the locality of Diggers Rest.

George and his wife Suzanne established the Bald Hill Hotel, the first staging stop out of Melbourne on the road to the goldfields at Bendigo.

It was still a wild place in 1858 when traveller William Kelly arrived on the coach:- "Arrived at the top, it was a scene of extraordinary bustle and uproar, for it was then a special camping place for drivers and carriers, and the scores upon scores of horse drays and bullock-wagons that were preparing for a start, produced an amount of tumult, altercation, blasphemy, and compound abominations which would not find many readers even if I succeeded in reproducing it.

[5] Hotels (the Gap Inn, the Manchester and the Bald Hill) and stores were erected in the vicinity, and in 1854 the Government moved to formalise the township.

The original Gap Inn and a store (in which a post office was established in 1856) were located centrally on a block of the main street on the Government’s later survey.

Its former site is now on a new house block; a bench associated with a former building appears to remain, along with a scatter of hand-made bricks that could have come from the chimney that had been added to it at a later date.

The one surviving row of the avenue of old Monterey Pines (Pinus radiata) on the Calder Highway is today the most prominent evidence of the former township.

held an inquest yesterday upon the cause of a trifling fire which occurred on the 17th ult, in a bedroom at the Bald Hills Hotel, Aitken's Gap.

The Toolern Brigade working on the west side of the front were unable to prevent 2100 acres of Mr Scott’s Mount Aitken estate, and its historic 14 room bluestone house, being burnt out.

[11] The loss of several local heritage landmarks in Sunbury in the late 1980s spurred Peter Free to campaign to preserve the Aitkens Gap Gaol.

Mr Free and volunteers from Rupertswood Battery moved all the jail’s bluestone "bricks" from its original site at the Gap to the Sunbury police station.