Country Towns | Victoria
Country Towns | Victoria - Suburbs, Shires & Councils Around Melbourne
Victorian country towns..
Asked recently, where do Melbourne suburbs finish and country towns begin? Good question.. we went with a 25klm radius. Anything within 25k is a suburb.
Asked recently, where do Melbourne suburbs finish and country towns begin? Good question.. we went with a 25klm radius. Anything within 25k is a suburb.
⊜ Baddaginnie
Baddaginnie, a rural locality with a small village, is on the Melbourne-Albury railway line and the old Hume Highway. It is 12 km. south-west of Benalla, situated in mainly flat unforested country,...
⊜ Badger Creek
Badger Creek, a rural and urban settlement, is 53 km. north-east of Melbourne and 6 km. south of Healesville. It adjoins the Healesville Sanctuary and the former Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, now...
⊜ Bairnsdale
Bairnsdale is a large provincial town situated on the Mitchell River in Gippsland, 285 kilometres east of Melbourne. The Bairnsdale run, on the west bank of the river, was occupied by Archibald...
⊜ Balmattum
Balmattum is a pastoral district north-east of Melbourne between Euroa and Violet Town. It was named after Balmattum Hill, a small range immediately south-west of Euroa. If the range is viewed...
⊜ Bandiana
Bandiana, consisting mainly of a military establishment, is immediately south-east of Wodonga in north-eastern Victoria. Early authorities state that the name arose from an Aboriginal woman with...
⊜ Barmah
Barmah is a rural village and district on the Murray River in northern Victoria, 23 km. north-east of Echuca and 23 km. west of Nathalia. The journey from Nathalia is more direct than the one from...
⊜ Barnawartha
Barnawartha is a rural township on the Melbourne to Sydney road (Hume Highway) where it is crossed by the Indigo Creek. It is 20 km. west of Wodonga in north-eastern Victoria. In 1837 a pastoral...
⊜ 78A Main St, Beeac
Beeac Heritage Windmill Park was established in 2010 and commemorates the 150th anniversary of Beeac which is located about 20km from Colac. It celebrates the existence of the businesses of the...
⊜ Bellarine
Bellarine is a rural locality on the northern side of the Bellarine Peninsula, between Clifton Springs and Portarlington. During the nineteenth century Bellarine was more extensive than today,...
⊜ Bena
Bena is situated near Korumburra in the South Gippsland hills, 105 kilometres from Melbourne. Land had been selected in the area in the 1870s and settlers had begun clearing the forest. After the...
⊜ Benalla
Benalla is a regional city on the Melbourne to Sydney Highway, 180 km. north-north-east of Melbourne. Since the completion of the Hume Freeway, Benalla can be bypassed by motorists. It is between...
⊜ Benambra
Benambra, on the plains about 24 kilometres north of Omeo in East Gippsland, is predominantly a grazing district. The land was first taken up in the mid 1830s by squatters from the Monaro searching...
⊜ Bendoc
Bendoc is 110 kilometres northwest of Orbost, on the edge of the Monaro tablelands close to the New South Wales border. The town was first known as Wagra Bendoc, an Aboriginal word meaning plain of...
⊜ Boho
The Boho district is in a farming and forest area south of Violet Town and about 130 km. north-north-east of Melbourne. Boho is on the north side of a State Forest range and is 8 km. from Violet...
⊜ Boisdale
Boisdale is situated on the Avon River ten kilometres north of Maffra and about 212 kilometres east of Melbourne. The Boisdale run, taken up for Lachlan Macalister in 1842, stretched from the Avon...
⊜ Bonegilla
Bonegilla is a rural locality on the western shore of Lake Hume in north-eastern Victoria. The nearest large township is Wodonga, twelve kilometres to the west. Much of the Parish of Bonegilla lies...
⊜ Bonnie Doon
Bonnie Doon is a rural township on Brankeet Inlet at the north end of Lake Eildon. It is about 115 km. north-east of Melbourne. Originally called Doon, the township was on the Brankeet Creek. The...
⊜ Boolarra
Boolarra lies in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, twenty kilometres south of Morwell in the Latrobe Valley. The area was first visited by Europeans in 1840 when the explorer Strzelecki passed...
⊜ Boomahnoomoonah Road Boomahnoomoonah
"Boomahnoomoonah" was* the longest single-word place name in Victoria is part of the Shire of Moira approximately 12 km southeast of Yarrawonga. The traditional owners of the land are the...
⊜ Boorhamen
Boorhamen is a rural village near the Ovens river, 15 km. north of Wangaratta in north-eastern Victoria. The Boorhamen pastoral station was recorded in 1865 as a subdivision of the earlier...
⊜ Briagalong
The township of Briagolong is 14 kilometres north of Stratford in Gippsland and about 270 kilometres east of Melbourne. It is situated on flat open red gum plain, close to Freestone Creek with the...
⊜ Bright
The attractive holiday township of Bright is situated on the scenic Great Alpine Road between Porepunkah and Harrietville in the beautiful Ovens Valley. Bright is a popular tourist centre due to...
⊜ Bruthen
Bruthen is situated on the Tambo River, 24 kilometres north-east of Bairnsdale and 300 kilometres east of Melbourne. Bruthen, or Brewathan as the area was first called, is thought to be a word of...
⊜ Buchan
Buchan is located twenty-six kilometres north of Nowa Nowa on the Princes Highway and 330 kilometres east of Melbourne. The township lies in the valley of the Buchan River hedged by rounded limestone...
⊜ Bullumwaal
Bullumwaal, sometimes spelt Bulumwaal, is located along Boggy Creek, twenty nine kilometres north of Bairnsdale in East Gippsland. Gold was found in Boggy Creek in 1857. There were soon 1,000 people...
⊜ Buln Buln
Buln Buln Shire was proclaimed in 1878. Its original size was considerably reduced by the creation of Warragul Shire in 1881 in the east and the creation of Korumburra Shire in 1891 in the south. In...
⊜ Bundalong
Bundalong is a rural locality on the Murray River in north-eastern Victoria, 15 km. east of Yarrawonga. It overlooks the river where it is joined by the Ovens River and widens to the east end of Lake...
⊜ Bunyip
Bunyip is located on the Gippsland railway line, 77 kilometres east of Melbourne. The rich farmland of the former Kooweerup Swamp stretches to the south. The name Bunyip, or Buneep, originates from a...
⊜ Burramine
Burramine, 14 km. east of Yarrawonga in north-eastern Victoria, is on the site of one of the State's oldest pastoral homesteads. In 1842 Elizabeth Hume, the widowed sister-in-law of Hamilton Hume,...
⊜ Cann River
The township of Cann River is situated at the junction of the Princes Highway and Cann Valley Highway, 455 kilometres east of Melbourne. The town is named after the Cann River which flows south from...
⊜ Cape Paterson
The seaside resort of Cape Paterson is 131 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The cape was named by Lieut. James Grant while exploring the coast in 1801, honouring Lieut. Col. William Paterson of...
⊜ Cassilis
Cassilis is a former mining settlement, 114 kilometres north of Bairnsdale in East Gippsland. It lies in the narrow valley of Gray's Creek, a tributary of Swift's Creek, itself a tributary of the...
⊜ Castlemaine
The Castlemaine locality was originally named Forest Creek where a rich alluvial goldfield was discovered in 1851. In the following year a town was surveyed and named Castlemaine after the estate of...
⊜ Cheshunt
Cheshunt is a rural village and district upstream along the King River in north-east Victoria. Its is 50 km. south of Wangaratta and the district extends along several tributaries of the King River....
⊜ Chiltern
Chiltern is a township on the Hume Highway in north-eastern Victoria, 35 km. from Wangaratta and midway between there and Wodonga. It is situated on the Black Dog Creek, and began as the Black Dog...
⊜ Churchill
In 1970 a new town had been established by the Housing Commission in the Parish of Hazelwood, to supply accomodation for State Electricity Commission workers and their families. The town was planned...
⊜ Cowes
The seaside resort of Cowes is the main settlement on Phillip Island. Phillip Island is situated at the entrance to Westernport Bay, south-east of Melbourne. The town is located on the northern...
⊜ Delatite
Delatite shire is north-east of Melbourne, its nearest point to Melbourne being the Eildon Weir. Its southern end is near Mount Matlock, and contains the rugged headwaters of the Goulburn River,...
⊜ Devenish
Devenish, a rural locality with a small township, is 27 km. north-north-west of Benalla on the route to Yarrawonga. The area was formerly known as Major Plains and St. James (both of which continue...
⊜ Dimboola
Dimboola is a top spot to visit, a great place to stay. Dimboola is in the heart of wheat growing country. After many dry years, water came back to the Wimmera River and reached Dimboola at the...
⊜ Dookie
Dookie is a rural township and district 27 km. east-north-east of Shepparton in northern Victoria. The area east of Shepparton is mostly flat, irrigated farm land, but Dookie is set in undulating...
⊜ Drouin
Drouin is 92 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, on the rail and road routes from Melbourne to Gippsland. The town is supposedly named after a Frenchman who invented a chlorination process for the...
⊜ Edi
Edi is on the king River, 35 km. south of Wangaratta in north-east Victoria. Edi Upper, 8 km. south-east of Edi, is on Black Range Creek which is a tributary of the King River. The name Edi came...
⊜ Eildon
The name Eildon is but known for its association with Victoria's largest water storage about 105 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is also the name of a town established after the enlargement of the...
⊜ Eldorado
Eldorado is a picturesque township with a mixture of agriculture and extensive former mining works. It is on the Reedy Creek (also known as Reid's Creek, Eldorado Creek and Woolshed Creek), and has...
⊜ Euroa
Euroa is a substantial township and rural district on the route between Melbourne and Albury. It is 130 km. north-north-east of Melbourne. Euroa is situated on Seven Creeks, a tributary of the...
⊜ Everton
Everton, a rural township in north-east Victoria, is 22 km. east-south-east of Wangaratta and about midway between there and Beechworth. It is on the Ovens Highway, in flat to undulating country....
⊜ Fernshaw
Fernshaw was a rural township 63 km. north-east of Melbourne and 10 km. north-east of Healesville. Situated on the Watts river, near where a log had fallen making a convenient crossing, Fernshaw...
⊜ Fyansford
Fyansford, near the junction of the Moorabool and Barwon Rivers, is 5 km. west of Geelong. It is one of the earliest places of settlement in the Geelong region. It was named after Captain Foster...
⊜ Gaffneys Creek
Gaffneys Creek is a mining locality 47 km. south of Mansfield on the road to Woods Point. The distance by road is much further. Gaffneys Creek is situated in mountainous country, ascending both side...
⊜ Geelong East
Geelong East is a residential area with large public open spaces, adjoining the Geelong central city area. Its northern edge is the Corio Bay foreshore, and it extends southwards to Breakwater....
⊜ Geelong South
Geelong South is a residential area between the Geelong central city area and the Barwon River. Page moved to Geelong South ...
⊜ Geelong West
Geelong West is a residential suburb immediately adjoining Geelong on Corio Bay, which is on the western side of Port Phillip Bay. Between 29 May, 1875, and 18 May, 1993, Geelong West was also a...
⊜ Glenrowan
Glenrowan is a rural locality and township on the route between Melbourne and Albury. It is 184 km. north-east of Melbourne and 14 km. before Wangaratta. Motorists on the old Hume Highway and...
⊜ Gobur
Gobur, a farming locality and former township, is 97 km. north-east of Melbourne and 26 km. north of Alexandra. The name comes from Gobur Creek and the Gobur pastoral run (c.1845) occupied by Henry...
⊜ Goorambat
Goorambat is a rural township 17 km. north of Benalla, on the route between Benalla and Yarrawonga. It is set in mainly flat country with little tree cover, two kilometres east of Broken...
⊜ Greta
Greta is a rural district in north-east Victoria had four village centres, all containing the name Greta at some time. The original Greta township on Fifteen Mile Creek is now Greta West, and is 22...
⊜ Gruyere
Gruyere is a rural area 43 km. east of Melbourne, extending eastwards from Coldstream to the Yarra River. The name was adopted at the suggestion of local Swiss vigneron, Paul de Castella. In...
⊜ Hamilton
Hamilton is a major centre located in the south-west of Victoria, south of Horsham and north of the coastal towns of Portland and Port Fairy. Hamilton features attractive tree-lined streets and a...
⊜ Healesville
Healesville is a township 52 km. east-north-east of Melbourne, just south of the Watts River which is a tributary of the Yarra River. Upstream from where Healesville is situated gold was found at New...
⊜ Indigo
Indigo is a shire in north-eastern Victoria formed on 18 November, 1994, by the union of Rutherglen shire and most of Beechworth, Chiltern and Yackandandah shires. Its administrative centre is at...
⊜ Jamieson
Jamieson, a rural township and agricultural district is at the junction of the Goulburn and Jamieson Rivers, in country with river flats. It is 30 km. from Mansfield and 120 km. north-east of...
⊜ Jan Juc
Jan Juc is a coastal township on Bass Strait, immediately west of Torquay and 21 km. south of Geelong. It is on the Jan Juc Creek, which enters Bass Strait one kilometre west of Spring...
⊜ Katamatite
Katamatite, a rural township in northern Victoria, is in the Murray Valley irrigation area and is 42 km. north-east of Shepparton. The name is thought to be derived from an Aboriginal word naming or...
⊜ Katandra
Katandra West is a rural township in northern Victoria between Shepparton and Tungamah. It is situated in flat farmland which is irrigated by the East Goulburn Main Channel. Katandra was named...
⊜ Katunga
Katunga is a rural village in the Murray Valley irrigation area in northern Victoria. It is 10 km. north of Numurkah. Katunga was originally the name of a district parish, and was given by a...
⊜ Kialla
The Kialla district is in the Goulburn Valley irrigation area, 10 km. south of Shepparton in northern Victoria. It is thought that the name was derived from that of an Aboriginal sub-tribal group....
⊜ Kurunjang
Kurunjang is a residential area 35 km. west-north-west of Melbourne, immediately north of Melton. Small areas of housing were laid out in the early 1980s. The Mowbray Non-denominational College...
⊜ Kyabram
Kyabram is a provincial township in northern Victoria, situated in the west Goulburn Valley irrigation area. It is 35 km. west of Shepparton. During the 1870s when pastoral runs were subdivided...
⊜ Lara
Lara and Lara Lake comprise a residential town set in rural surrounds between Melbourne and Geelong, north of Geelong across Corio Bay. The are situated on Hovells Creek, which drains into...
⊜ Lemnos
Lemnos, is a rural locality and small town in northern Victoria, 8 km. north-east of Shepparton. It is in the irrigated orchard/dairying country of the Goulburn Valley. Lemnos was named after the...
⊜ Leopold
Leopold, a residential and rural district on the Bellarine Peninsula, is 10 km. east-south-east of Geelong. Originally name Kensington, it was renamed Leopold in 1892 after Queen Victoria's son, the...
⊜ Lima
Lima is a rural district comprising the physical features of Lima Creek, Lima Valley and the smaller localities of Lima East and Lima South. The area is generally 25 km south of Benalla, set in...
⊜ Little River
Little River is a rural township 44 km. west-south-west of Melbourne, on the train route to Geelong. The Little River (shorter than the Werribee River to its east and the Moorabool River to its...
⊜ Macclesfield
Macclesfield is a hilly rural district 47 km. east of Melbourne, immediately north of Emerald. The area was first penetrated by miners who found gold in the Macclesfield Creek in 1865. The name is...
⊜ Maurice Avenue Mallacoota
Mallacoota is Victoria's most easterly town in the East Gippsland not far from New South Wales border and the tip of Victoria. Mallacoota is a small holiday and fishing town situated at the mouth...
⊜ Marysville
Marysville is a scenic township in the Great Dividing Range 75 km. north-east of Melbourne. The town was surveyed in 1864, by when a store and a butcher's shop existed to supply miners on the...
⊜ Matlock
Matlock, situated on the Great Dividing Range, 110 km. east-north-east of Melbourne, was the site of a goldfield and of a supply town for other gold fields in the nineteenth century. It was the...
⊜ Mernda
Mernda, on the edge of metropolitan Melbourne, is 26 km. to its north. Originally known as Morang until 1893, then South Yan Yean, the name Mernda was given in 1913 to distinguish the locality from...
⊜ Merriang
Merriang is a rural district 28 km. north of Melbourne, about midway between Whittlesea and the Hume Highway. Its name is thought to be Aboriginal for a stone chopper. The area was first occupied...
⊜ Miepoll
Miepoll is a farming district north of Euroa and mid-way between Murchison and Violet Town. It is set in flat country and is 140 km. north-north-east of Melbourne. The origin of the name is obscure....
⊜ Milawa
Milawa is a rural township 15 km. south-east of Wangaratta in north-east Victoria. It is situated on the Oxley Plains, between the King and Ovens Rivers. Soon after gold was discovered at...
⊜ Molesworth
Molesworth is a small town and pastoral district 85 km. north-east of Melbourne and 13 km. east of Yea on the Goulburn Valley Highway. It was named at the same time as Yea (1855) by a Government...
⊜ Moyhu
Moyhu is an agricultural township near the King River in north-east Victoria. It is 27 km. south of Wangaratta, and 180 km. from Melbourne. Moyhu is positioned where several creeks enter the King...
⊜ Murrindindi
Murrindindi is a shire created on 18 November, 1994, by the amalgamation of Alexandra and Yea shires and parts of Whittlesea city and Broadford, Eltham, Euroa and Healesville shires. The name...
⊜ Nagambie
The town of Nagambie is located in a pastoral and agricultural region between Seymour and Shepparton, on the shores of the picturesque Lake Nagambie. Nagambie is an attractive holiday spot,...
⊜ Newcomb
Newcomb, a residential suburb adjoining Geelong East, is 3 km. south-east of Geelong. It is named after Caroline Newcomb, companion of Anne Drysdale who was a pioneer pastoralist in the Drysdale...
⊜ Norlane
Norlane is a residential suburb immediately north of the Ford motor plant in Geelong. It was named after Norman Lane, a local serviceman from the district who was captured at Singapore and died...
⊜ Numurkah
Numurkah, a rural township in north Victoria, is about mid-way between Shepparton and the Murray River. It is situated on Broken Creek, in the Murray Valley irrigation area. After the pastoral...
⊜ Picola
Picola is a rural village and district in northern Victoria, 11 km. north-west of Nathalia. Its name is thought to derive from an Aboriginal word either describing an Aboriginal sub-group or meaning...
⊜ 57 Main Street Rutherglen
Rutherglen is one of Victoria's ultimate wine and food destinations, boasting over 20 award-winning wineries, outstanding restaurants and cafes, and world-class local produce. Also home to some of...
⊜ Shepparton
Greater Shepparton city is a municipality formed on 18 November, 1994, by the union of Shepparton city, most of Rodney shire and parts of Euroa, Goulburn, Tungamah, Violet Town and Waranga Shires....
⊜ St. James
St James is a small rural township located about 190km north-east of Melbourne, 12km south of Tungamah on the railway line between Benalla and Yarrawonga. The name came from a pastoral station. In...
⊜ Taggerty
Taggerty is a small town and farming district on the Maroondah Highway, 82 km. north-east of Melbourne and 18 km. south of Alexandra. It is in the Acheron Valley and is situated where the Acheron...
⊜ Tallygaroopna
Tallygaroopna is a rural district and small township on the Goulburn Valley highway and railway 15 km. north of Shepparton, in northern Victoria. It was named after the Tallygaroopna pastoral run,...
⊜ Tarrawingee
Tarrawingee, a rural township on the Ovens Highway in north-eastern Victoria, is 12 km. east of Wangaratta. It is situated in open, relatively flat country immediately north of the Ovens River and...
⊜ Toolangi
Toolangi is a rural township and locality 52 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is situated near the Yea River in the Great Dividing Range, and is reached by the Healesville-Kinglake Road. The name...
⊜ Upotipotpon
Upotipotpon is an agricultural district 4 km. north of Violet Town. Its name came from the Upotipotpon pastoral station (1841) of about 16,600 ha., occupying land between Broken River and Stony...
⊜ Violet Town
Violet Town is a small community of approx 950 people nestled at the foot of the Strathbogie Ranges in North East Victoria. Violet Town is well known for it's thriving monthly market, renowned for...
⊜ Waaia
Waaia is a rural township locality in the Murray Valley irrigation area in northern Victoria. It is approximately mid-way between Nathalia and Numurkah. The name is thought to be derived from an...
⊜ Wangaratta
Wangaratta is a provincial city in north-east Victoria, 210 km from Melbourne and 70 km from Albury. Wangaratta is situated at the junction of the Ovens and King Rivers which flow generally...
⊜ Wodonga
Wodonga is a provincial city in north-east Victoria, bordered by Albury on the other side of the Murray River. It was named after the Wodonga pastoral run, taken up by Paul Huon in 1836, although it...
⊜ Wunghnu
Wunghnu is a rural township in northern Victoria 7 km. south of Numurkah, on the Goulburn Valley Highway and railway between Shepparton and Numurkah. It is situated on Nine Mile Creek in the Murray...
⊜ Yan Yean
Yan Yean, best known for its domestic-water reservoir, is on the Plenty river 30 km. north of Melbourne. The name is thought to be of Aboriginal origin, possibly meaning young man (Yan Yean is...
⊜ Yarck
Yarck is one of several small township/districts north of Alexandra, and is 92 km. north-east of Melbourne on the Maroondah Highway. Yarck was the name of a cattle station, thought to be derived...
⊜ Yarra Glen
Yarra Glen is situated a little north of a flood plain through which the Yarra River flows. It has a substantial township which is 40 km. north-east of Melbourne. It was probably named after the...
⊜ Yarra Junction
Yarra Junction is a rural township 2 km. east of where the Little Yarra River joins the Yarra River, 55 km. east of Melbourne. It is on the route between Lilydale and Warburton, and a road branches...
⊜ Yarrawonga
Yarrawonga is a town on the Murray River, 215 km. north-north-east of Melbourne. It is linked to Mulwala, on the opposite side of the river in New South Wales, by road and railway, and the Mulwala...
⊜ Yarroweyah
Yarroweyah is a rural village and district 6 km. west of Cobram in northern Victorian. It is on the branch railway line between Strathmerton and Cobram. Yarroweyah (also spelt Yarroweya), was the...
⊜ Yea
Yea is a town of about 1,000 people 77 km. north-north-east of Melbourne, centrally located in the former Yea shire (1873-1994). It dominated the shire in terms of population, as the other villages...
⊜ Yellingbo
Yellingbo is a rural district 48 kn. east of Melbourne, south of Woori Yallock. The district was originally named Claxton after the proprietor of the store and post office on the Woori Yallock...
⊜ Youanmite
Youanmite is a rural village and district in northern Victoria, 17 km. west of Tungamah and 47 km. north-east of Shepparton. Its name is thought to be derived from an Aboriginal word meaning hill....
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