Pirron Yallock is a town in western
Victoria
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, Australia. It is located on the
Princes Highway
Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney via Melbourne to Adelaide through the states of New South Wales, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and South Australia. It has a length of (along Highway 1) or via the former ...
(route A1), where
route C163 branches off towards
Timboon and
Nullawarre. Pirron Yallock is on the banks of Pirron Yallock Creek, which flows into
Lake Corangamite
Lake Corangamite , a hypersaline endorheic lake, is located near Colac in the Lakes and Craters region of the Victorian Volcanic Plains of south-west Victoria, Australia. The lake's salinity levels have increased dramatically as the lake leve ...
.
Pirron Yallock state school celebrated its centenary in 1974.
Pirron Yallock was served by the
Pirron Yallock railway station on the
Warrnambool railway line
The Warrnambool railway line is a railway serving the south west of Victoria, Australia. Running from the western Melbourne suburb of Newport, Victoria, Newport through the cities of Geelong and Warrnambool, the line once terminated at the coa ...
, until the station was closed in 1981.
Pirron Yallock Post Office opened on 12 July 1872, was renamed Pirron Yaloak on 21 June 1965, and closed on 31 October 1973.
The Pirron Yallock racecourse was the first place in Victoria to legally operate a
totalizator, at the race meeting on 2 May 1931.
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Towns in Victoria (state)
Western District (Victoria)
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