Cheviot is a locality in
Victoria
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,
Australia
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in the
Shire of Murrindindi
The Shire of Murrindindi is a Local government areas of Victoria, local government area in the Hume (region), Hume region of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, located in the north-east part of the state. It covers an area of and, in Au ...
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 which took route on the
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city ...
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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 ope ...
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 (state)
Shire of Murrindindi
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