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Batesford

Batesford is a town located approximately 10 kilometres west of Geelong and 67 kilometres south-west of the state capital, Melbourne.

Batesford
Batesford · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Batesford is a town located approximately 10 kilometres west of Geelong and 67 kilometres south-west of the state capital, Melbourne.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Batesford

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St. John the Baptist Macedonian Orthodox Church, Geelong

    The St. John the Baptist Macedonian Orthodox Church (Macedonian: Македонска Православна Црква "Св.

    2.2 km · church in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Covenant College

    Covenant College, formerly known as Geelong Christian School, is a Christian parent-controlled school in Bell Post Hill, Victoria. Established in 1979, the school's programs are academic.

    3.1 km · Christian parent-controlled school in Bell Post Hill, Victoria · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cowies Creek Rail Bridge No. 1

    Cowies Creek Rail Bridge No. 1 is a bridge in Victoria, Australia, on the Geelong-Ballarat rail line in the outer Geelong suburb of Bell Post Hill.

    4 km · rail bridge in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Batesford

Airports
Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 17 km · Melbourne (MEL), 68 km
  • Melbourne → Batesford
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · A$9–12
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Batesford
    594 km · quickest by air, 6h 24m · A$190–290
  • Adelaide → Batesford
    617 km · quickest by air, 6h 42m · A$200–310
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Batesford

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Batesford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe Spirit of Tasmania is a large ro-ro ferry operating between Devonport in northern Tasmania and Geelong with at least one daily scheduled service.
  • Get inSee Geelong#By ferry for detailed information.
  • Get inThe Searoad Ferries is another company that operates a ferry route between the towns of Queenscliff on the Bellarine, and Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.

From Wikivoyage: Greater Geelong, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    631 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    677 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,658 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,095 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,203 km

If you know how people move in Batesford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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