Buangor is a town in western

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...

. It is about west of the state capital,

Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...

. At the 2021

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, Buangor had a population of 112. Buangor Post Office opened on 25 March 1863. The town has a primary school, which was built in 1878, and had an enrolment of 19 students in 2011.

Buangor railway station Buangor is a closed station in the town of Buangor, on the Ararat railway line in Victoria, Australia. It was opened on 7 April 1875 when the line was extended from Beaufort to Ararat. The station was one of 35 Victorian country stations cl ...

, on the

Ararat railway line The Ararat railway line (formerly known as the Serviceton and Western lines) is a railway line in Victoria, Australia. It links the state capital of Melbourne to the cities of Ballarat and Ararat via the Regional Rail Link. The line began co ...

, was closed in 1981. The area was known as the Parish of Woodnaccerak (also spelled Woodnaggerak) in the

County of Ripon The County of Ripon is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia, used for land titles. The county includes the plains of the Western District from Ballarat in the east to the Grampians in the we ...

and was established in the 1830s, and is remembered by a north–south road named Woodnaggerak in the district. The local grazing property "Woodnaggerak" was the home of General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White, KCB, KCMG, KCVO, DSO,

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1920–23 to which he commuted at weekends from

. He was recalled to the role in early 1940, until killed soon after in the Canberra air disaster.

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