Yendon is a locality in
Victoria
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, Australia. The town is located in the
Shire of Moorabool
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, west of the state capital,
Melbourne
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and approximately south-east of
Ballarat
Ballarat ( ) () is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Ballarat had a population of 111,973, making it the third-largest urban inland city in Australia and the third-largest city in Victoria.
Within mo ...
. The town was originally called Buninyong East, but was changed in 1879 to Yendon, believed to be an
Indigenous Australian
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word meaning "waterhole".
At the , Yendon had a population of 307.
History
The
Geelong-Ballarat railway line passed through Yendon, and for a while in the early 1860s it was the terminus of the line. The station was originally called Buninyong, but was changed to Yendon in 1876. A substantial two-storey
bluestone
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* basalt in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, and in New Zealand
* diabase, dolerites in Tasmania, ...
station building was opened in 1862. It was demolished in 1969,
[ and the stone was reused to construct garden retaining walls at the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, now ]Federation University
Federation University Australia (FedUni) is a public university based in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. It is the modern descendant of the School of Mines Ballarat, established in 1870 as the fourth tertiary institution in Australi ...
.
Yendon's first school, the Common School, opened in 1864, and became Yendon State School in 1879. It closed at the end of 1993.
References
External links
Drawing of the Yendon Railway Station
Towns in Victoria (state)
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