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Tarrington is a village in the Southern Grampians Shire in South-west 
Tarrington was formerly known as ''Bukecy'' or ''Hochkirch'', named by Sorbian immigrants coming from the area of that name in
Victoria, Australia
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. It has a large Lutheran
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Church, along with a school, church, hall, oval, cafe/restaurant, computer repair service, quarry, day-care centre and a fire station. At the , Tarrington had a population of 328.
Tarrington was formerly known as ''Bukecy'' or ''Hochkirch'', named by Sorbian immigrants coming from the area of that name in Saxony
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. The town was settled in the early 1860s and the Hochkirch Post Office opened on 15 February 1861 (now closed and replaced by a hut that houses PO boxes) and renamed Tarrington on 1 March 1918 due to the anti-German sentiment of that time.
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*Australian place names changed from German names
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