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.

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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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.
- 01Lake 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 → Daylesford89 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · A$13–18
- Geelong/Melbourne → Daylesford94 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · A$14–19
- Adelaide → Daylesford565 km · quickest by air, 7h 24m · A$320–460
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Daylesford
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 Daylesford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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