- Tarrington, Victoria
Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Tarrington
state = vic
caption =
lga = Shire of Southern Grampians
postcode = 3301
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pop =
elevation=
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stategov = Lowan
fedgov = Wannon
dist1 = 314
dir1 = W
location1=Melbourne
dist2 = 9
dir2 = SE
location2= HamiltonTarrington 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 largeLutheran 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 inSaxony ,Germany . The town was settled in the early 1860s and the Hochkirch Post Office opened onFebruary 15 ,1861 (now closed and replaced by a hut that houses PO boxes) and renamed TarringtonMarch 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 ]References
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