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Woodend

Woodend is a town in Victoria, Australia.

Woodend
Woodend · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Woodend is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is in the Shire of Macedon Ranges local government area and is bypassed to the east and north by the Calder Freeway (M79), located about halfway between Melbourne and Bendigo. At the 2021 census, Woodend had a population of 6,732.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Woodend

2 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
    Mount Macedon

    Mount Macedon is an extinct volcano that is part of the Macedon Ranges of the Great Dividing Range, located in the Central Highlands region of Victoria, Australia. The mountain has an elevation of 1,001 metres with a prominence of 643 metres and is located approximately 65 kilometres northwest of Melbourne.

    5 km · mountain in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mount Macedon Memorial Cross

    The Mount Macedon Memorial Cross is a heritage-listed war memorial at 405 Cameron Drive, Mount Macedon, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia. It is also known as the Cameron Memorial Cross.

    5.3 km · memorial cross on Mount Macedon, 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 Woodend

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 44 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 75 km
  • Melbourne → Woodend
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · A$8–11
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Woodend
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · A$9–12
  • Adelaide → Woodend
    597 km · quickest by air, 6h 9m · A$260–380
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Woodend

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 Woodend. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    674 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,578 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,116 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,149 km

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

Around it

Next door to Woodend