Cheviot is a locality in
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
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* Victoria, Seychelle ...
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Australia in the
Shire of Murrindindi
The Shire of Murrindindi is a local government area in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia, located in the north-east part of the state. It covers an area of and, in June 2018, had a population of 14,478. It includes the towns of Alexandra, ...
local government area.
History
The locality was named after a nearby pastoral run called Cheviot Hills, which in turn was named after the
locality on the English-Scottish border. It was also called Ross Creek.
[Harvey Blanks, ''The Story of Yea'' ()]
From 1889 until 1978 there was an active railway station here on the now historic and abandoned
Cheviot railway station
Cheviot is a former railway station in Cheviot, Victoria, Australia
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which took route on the
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market t ...
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Tallarook
Tallarook is a town the Shire of Mitchell local government area in central Victoria, Australia. The town is in on the Hume Highway, north of the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Tallarook had a population of 789.
Tallarook Post Office open ...
line. Cheviot Post Office opened on 9 April 1890 after the arrival of the railway, and closed in 1944.
The rails have gone but an old goods shed survives, and to the northeast the Cheviot Tunnel provides an excellent example of brick workmanship of the nineteenth century.
A Ross Creek Post Office opened on 14 October 1865 and closed in 1969.
References
Towns in Victoria (Australia)
Towns in Lower Hume
Shire of Murrindindi
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