Apsley is a town in
Victoria,
Australia
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. It is on the Wimmera Highway, in the
Shire of West Wimmera, 420 kilometres north-west of
Melbourne
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, and 7 kilometres east of the
South Australia
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n border. The town is named after
Apsley House in
London
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. It was surveyed in 1851 and proclaimed in 1852, a Post Office opening on 1 January 1854
replacing that of
Lake Wallace (open since 1 March 1849) nearer what is now
Edenhope serving the grazing population.
The population at the 2016 census was 277. The town is close to Lake Bringalbert and Newlands Lake, and the Saint Gregory's Vineyard, which specialises in
port wine
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.
Apsley had a football club that competed in the
Kowree Naracoorte Football League from 1937. Later this would become the
Kowree Naracoorte Tatiara Football League where Apsley competed until 1998, when they merged with Edenhope. Since 2007 Edenhope Apsley have played in the
Horsham & District Football League. Apsley's best known sportspersons were footballers
Reg Burgess, who played for the
Essendon Football Club
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,
Murrie Batt, who played for the
Collingwood Football Club
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, 2020 and 2023 Brownlow Medalist and 2024 Gary Ayres Award Premiership Captain
Lachie Neale, who currently plays for the
Brisbane Lions Football Club and hockey players
Hattie Shand and
Lachlan Busiko who play representing for Australia.
A large
Red-flowering Gum on Wallace Street is listed on the
National Trust of Australia's Significant Tree Register for Victoria.
Golfers play at the Apsley Golf Club on the Wimmera Highway.
In 2014, 12 farm families banded together to buy the pub. The Border Inn Hotel has completed an extensive renovation, and has a small attached general store for the town, which has recently opened.
The township also has a state primary school.
References
Department of Sustainability and Environment: Know your town - ApsleyApsley Cemetery deceased records and online map
at Chronicle Cemetery Map
Towns in Victoria (state)
Wimmera
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