Baddaginnie, Victoria

Baddaginnie, Victoria

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


caption = Shop, no longer operating. A wall with post office boxes is in the foreground with the post box and public phone
lga = Rural City of Benalla
postcode = 3670
est =
pop = 460
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Benalla
fedgov = Indi
dist1 = 198
dir1 = NE
location1= Melbourne
dist2 = 14
dir2 = SW
location2= Benalla

Baddaginnie is a small town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Albury-Wodonga railway line, in the Rural City of Benalla, 12 kilometres south-west of Benalla itself on the old Hume highway. It is situated in mainly flat unforested country, one kilometre west of the Baddaginnie Creek. At the 2006 census, Baddaginnie and the surrounding area had a population of 460.Census 2006 AUS
id=SSC25053
name=Baddaginnie (State Suburb)
accessdate=2007-07-21
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The town was surveyed in 1857 but settlement was slow, a Post Office finally opening on September 16 , 1879 Citation

last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | accessdate = 2008-04-11 ] .

It is believed to be named after the Sinhala word meaning "hungry" by the surveyor, as the survey team was without food when it arrived.

George "Joey" Palmer, the 1880s Australian test cricketer died here on 22 August 1910.

References

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040511091917/www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/baddaginnie.html Australian Places - Baddaginnie]


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