Amherst, Victoria

Amherst, Victoria

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


caption =
lga = Shire of Central Goldfields
postcode = 3371
est =
pop =
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Ripon
fedgov = Bendigo
dist1 = 173
dir1 = NW
location1= Melbourne
dist2 = 58
dir2 = N
location2= Ballarat
dist3 = 5
dir3 = W
location3= Talbot

Amherst was a town in Victoria, Australia, located on Talbot - Avoca Road, north-west of Talbot, in the Shire of Central Goldfields.

The town began as a mining settlement. It was surveyed and proclaimed in 1855, a Post Office opening on January 1, 1856 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 ] (closed 1963). Amherst became a municipality in 1858, which included the nearby town of Talbot, though as Talbot increased in size it eventually replaced Amherst as the municipality. Much of the original township has been destroyed by bushfire, and little remains other than the Amherst Cemetery.

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