Apsley is a small town in

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. It is on the Wimmera Highway, in the

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, 420 kilometres north-west of

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, and 7 kilometres east of the

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n border. The town is named after

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. It was surveyed in 1851 and proclaimed in 1852, a Post Office opening on 1 January 1854 replacing that of

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(open since 1 March 1849) nearer what is now

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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

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. Apsley had a football club that competed in the Kowree Naracoorte Football League from 1937. Later this would become the

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where Apsley competed until 1998, when they merged with Edenhope. Since 2007 Edenhope Apsley have played in the

Horsham & District Football League The Horsham & District Football League is an amateur Australian rules football league based in the Wimmera area of Western Victoria. History The league in its present form was created in 1946. Prior to World War 2 a number of local leagues ex ...

. Apsley's best known footballers were Reg Burgess, who played for the

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, Murrie Batt, who played for the

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and 2020 Brownlow Medalist

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, who currently plays for the Brisbane Lions Football Club 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 - Apsley
Towns in Victoria (Australia) Wimmera {{GrampiansAU-geo-stub