Raglan, Victoria
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The former Raglan school is now owned privately and used as a residence
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| Population | 456 (2006 census)[1] | ||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3373 | ||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Pyrenees Shire | ||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Ripon | ||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Wannon | ||||||||
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Raglan is a town in western Victoria, Australia. It is located 177 kilometres (110 mi) north west of the state capital, Melbourne in the Shire of Pyrenees local government area. At the 2006 census, Raglan and the surrounding area had a population of 456.[1]
Raglan was named after FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan who was a Field Marshal during the Crimean War.
Many of the residents of Raglan are descendants of the first European settlers of the area, with various roads and lanes bearing the family names of those settlers. There has also been a few new residents, "Tree Changers" to the town that have move up from the state capital, Melbourne or from the regional center of Ballarat.
The main industry of Raglan is sheep grazing with sundry support business such as live stock transport also exist in the town.
The town has, like many in central Victoria, rusty remnants of gold mining equipment from the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s scattered around in various privately owned paddocks. There are also interesting examples of "Bush Architecture" in the area, with a number of buildings still standing from the late 19th and the early 20th century.
Raglan Post Office opened on 1 January 1865 and closed in 1960 (an earlier office of the same name was renamed Beaufort in 1863).[2]
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