- Source: Blampied, Victoria
Location
Blampied is a town in the central highlands of Victoria on the Midland Highway. The town is in the Shire of Hepburn, 117 kilometres (73 mi) north west of the state capital of Melbourne. At the 2016 census, Blampied and the surrounding area had a population of 212.
Blampied is about 15 minutes away from famous tourist town Daylesford and about 30 minutes to Ballarat, another famous town where sparked the Victoria gold-rush.
Different from Daylesford or Ballarat, Blampied has its own beauty offering stunning volcanic hills and farming landscape.
History
The town was named after Louis Blampied who built a hotel here which is now called the Swiss Mountain Inn.
Blampied Post Office opened on 20 November 1879 and closed in 1971.
References
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- Blampied, Victoria
- Blampied
- Edmund Blampied
- List of localities in Victoria
- Steph Hodgins-May
- Vickers Viscount
- Portland Cable Tram
- Wendouree railway station
- List of preserved Vickers aircraft
- Jersey pound
