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Daylesford

Daylesford is a town in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, approximately 114 kilometres north-west of Melbourne.

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The place

Daylesford is a town in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, approximately 114 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. First established in 1852 as a gold mining town, Daylesford had a population of 2,781 at the 2021 census.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Daylesford

One place 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.

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    Lake Daylesford

    Lake Daylesford is an artificial lake in the town of Daylesford, Victoria, Australia. It was completed in either 1927 or 1929 after many years of campaigning, beginning in 1893.

    1.2 km · lake in Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Daylesford

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 70 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 82 km
Stations
Daylesford railway station, 1 km · Musk railway station, 4.6 km
  • Melbourne → Daylesford
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · A$13–18
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Daylesford
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · A$14–19
  • Adelaide → Daylesford
    565 km · quickest by air, 7h 24m · A$320–460
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