The Briars is a former homestead in Mount Martha, Victoria, Australia, now managed by the Mornington Peninsula Shire as a conservation park.

Partially used for wine production,[1] it was then handed down through generations of the same family until in 1976, the property was transferred to the National Trust of Australia and the Shire.

Alexander Balcombe was born at a property known as The Briars on the island of St Helena in 1811.

His father, William, became the first Treasurer of the Colony of New South Wales in April 1824, purchasing a 4000 acre property by the Molonglo River, before dying in 1829.

In 1846, Alexander took livestock south with wife Emma, taking over the Tichingorouk run that had been established four years earlier, and renaming it The Briars.