Tarrington, Victoria

Tarrington, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Tarrington
state = vic


caption =
lga = Shire of Southern Grampians
postcode = 3301
est =
pop =
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Lowan
fedgov = Wannon
dist1 = 314
dir1 = W
location1= Melbourne
dist2 = 9
dir2 = SE
location2= Hamilton

Tarrington is a village in the Southern Grampians Shire in South-west Victoria, Australia close to Hamilton. It has a population of around 200 and has a large Lutheran Church, along with a school, church, hall, oval, cafe/restaurant, computer repair service, quarry, day-care centre and a fire station. Tarrington was formerly known as Hochkirch, named by immigrants coming from the area of that name in Saxony, Germany. The town was settled in the early 1860s and the Hochkirch Post Office opened on February 15, 1861 (now closed and replaced by a hut that houses PO boxes) and renamed Tarrington March 1, 1918 due to the anti-German sentiment of that time.Citation
last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | access-date = 2008-04-11 ]

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