Towns and Localities
Shire of Moira

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For a map of this shire click HERE.

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small green ball Barmha (see Barmah)
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Barmah
Approximate Location: On the Murray River, 60km NW of Shepparton, 20km west of Nathalia and 25km ENE of Echuca.
Comments: Original spelling was Barmha and in the 1854 census was called Barmha Inn. Surveyed in 1866 and proclaimed in 1869.
Schools: SS3260 Barmah opened in 1896 and closed some time between 1971 and 2004.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Barmah East
Approximate Location: 4 km east of Barmah.
Schools: SS1725 Barmah opened in 1876. The school was renamed Barmah East in 1917 because of confusion with the township of Barmah and was closed in 1946.

Barwo
Approximate Location: Farming area 5km NW of Nathalia.
Schools: SS2221 Barwo West (location unknown) opened full-time in 1880 then operated part-time with SS2817 Waaia West from 1887 to 1898 and had a temporary closure in 1904. In 1908 it was operating part-time with SS2214 Narioka. It again closed in 1913, re-opened part-time with SS1950 Waaia South in late 1914, became full-time in late 1915, part-time with SS3463 Yielima North West in 1916, full-time in 1917 and then permanently closed in 1920.

Bathumi
Approximate Location: Rural area 10km east of Yarrawonga.
Comments: Township reserve gazetted in 1870 and township surveyed and proclaimed in 1874 .
Schools: SS1850 opened in 1877, became part-time with SS Bundalong West in 1909, resumed full-time operation in 1910 and closed in 1929.

Baulkamaugh North
Approximate Location: Farming town 12km NW of Numurkah.
Schools: SS2336 Baulkamaugh opened in 1881 and closed in 1948. It operated intermittently part-time with SS2920 Baulkamaugh South during part of its life. The school was initially called Baulkamaugh and later Baulkamaugh North.
SS2417 Baulkamaugh East opened in 1881 in a Methodist Chapel and was closed in 1912. This school was possibly in Centre Road which runs east-west about 3 km south of Baulkamaugh North.
SS2920 Baulkamaugh South opened in 1889 and before closing in 1938 operated intermittently part-time with SS2336 Baulkamaugh. The school appears to have held in a Bible Christian Church somewhere south of the Numurkah-Nathalia railway during all of its life.
(See Waaia for the Baulkamaugh West Primary School).
Churches: A Bible Christian Church (later to be united with Wesleyan) was erected at Baulkamaugh in 1882.

Bearii
Approximate Location: Rural locality 15km WNW of Strathmerton.
Schools: SS2839 opened in 1888 part-time with SS2823 Yalca East for most of its first year. It closed in 1969.
Churches: A Bible Christian Church (later to be united with Wesleyan) was erected at Bearii in 1882.
A Methodist church was built in 1904.
Buildings: A Mechanics' Institute hall previously existed and may or may not have survived (details of it are unknown).

Boomahnoomoonah
Approximate Location: Rural area 15km SSE of Yarrawonga.
Schools: SS2249 opened in 1880, was part-time with SS3282 Bundalong West in 1904, part-time with SS3476 Karrabumet in 1908 and closed in 1909. It re-opened in 1910 working part-time with SS2109 Bundalong South, then full-time, and again part-time with SS2109 Bundalong South in 1913 before resuming full-time operation in 1914, closing in 1933. It re-opened in 1935 and finally closed in 1953.
SS2801 Boomahnoomoonah East opened in 1886, was part-time with SS2810 Killawarra West in 1887 and closed in 1892. It re-opened part-time with SS3282 Bundalong West in 1897 and again closed in 1901. The building was re-sited further north and re-opened in 1903, was part-time with SS2109 Bundalong South in 1904 before finally closing in 1910.

Boosey
Approximate Location: 20km WSW of Yarrawonga.
Schools: SS2209 Boosey South opened as two schools in 1880. One school was at Boosey South (location unknown but apparently north of Boosey Creek) and another on the south side of Boosey Creek. They operated initially on a part-time basis, then each operated full-time. The school may have operated part-time with SS2713 Burramine West from 1887 to 1892. It was operating part-time with SS2203 Burramine South in 1893 before closing later that year. The school reopened in 1906, closed in 1909, reopened in 1911 and permanently closed in 1918.
SS2474 Boosey North opened in 1882, was part-time with SS2301 Youarang in 1884, part-time with SS2713 Burramine West in 1886 and appears to have closed in 1889.

Boweya North
Approximate Location: 5km NNW of Boweya.
Comments: With the school being named Almonds, the district may also have been called Almonds at one stage.
Schools: SS2476 Karrabumet opened in 1882 and closed in 1909. Note that the actual township of Karrabumet was proclaimed shortly after in 1889, but at the present town site of Lake Rowan. It reopened in 1927 but with the name of Almonds and was also called Boweya North at some before finally closing in 1955. It is likely that the actual school moved to follow population growth.
Boweya North SS3122 (approx 6 km north east of the original site of SS2476) operated from 1891 to 1947.
See also: Boweya North on the Rural City of Benalla page.

Bundalong
Approximate Location: 15km east of Yarrawonga.
Schools: SS3282 Bundalong West opened in 1897 operating part-time with SS2801 Boomahnoomoonah East during part of that year, closed in 1898, re-opened in 1900, worked part-time with SS2194 Yarrawonga South in 1902/3, part-time with SS2249 Boomahnoomoonah in 1904, part-time with SS1850 Bathumi in 1909/10 and closed about 1914.
See also SS2593 at Esmond
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.

Bundalong South
Approximate Location: 8km SSE of Bundalong on the Wangaratta - Yarrawonga Road.
Schools: An unofficial school started at Bundalong South in 1877 and became SS2109 in 1878 and closed in 1895. Before resuming full-time operation in 1910, it operated part-time with SS2245 Peechelba for an unknown time, SS2801 Boomahnoomoonah East (1904 - ?) and SS2249 Boomahnoomoonah. In 1913 it was part-time again with SS2249 Boomahnoomoonah, resuming full-time operation in 1914 and closing in 1965.

Burramine
Approximate Location: 10km west of Yarrawonga.
Schools: SS1766 opened part-time with SS1819 Yarrawonga in 1876 but was operating full-time by 1877. In 1903 it began working part-time with SS2101 Burramine East, resuming full-time operation in mid 1907 until its closure in 1946.
SS2101 Burramine East (location unknown) opened in 1878, worked part-time with SS2203 Burramine South for part of 1903 and then part-time with SS1766 Burramine from 1903 until its closure in 1907.
SS2713 Burramine West (location unknown) opened in 1886 and operated  part-time with SS2474 Boosey North in 1887 and with SS2209 Boosey  from 1887 until 1892. In 1902 and again in late 1903 it worked part-time with SS2203 Burramine South. The school closed in 1908, re-opened in 1923, was working part-time with SS1923 Youarang in 1946 and finally closed in 1949.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.

Burramine South
Approximate Location: 10km SW of Burramine and half way between Yarrawong and Katamatite.
Schools: SS2203 opened in 1879 and in 1893 was working part-time with SS2209 Boosey South. In 1902 it was working part-time with SS2713 Burramine West, and in 1903 part-time with SS2101 Burramine East and then again with Burramine West. In 1909 it again worked part-time with SS2209 Boosey South but closed later that year when a Catholic School opened. The school re-opened in 1927 and finally closed some time after 1970.

Cobram
Approximate Location: Major town situated on the Murray River and the Murray Valley Highway, 80km NNW of Benalla and 35km west of Yarrawonga.
Comments: Surveyed in 1873 and proclaimed in 1912.
Schools: SS2881 Cobram opened in 1888. In the early 1950s the school became a 'consolidated' school catering for students from recently closed nearby schools SS2166 Cobram East, SS2425 Yarroweyah, SS2496 Muckatah and SS3138 Koonoomoo. The school closed some time after 1970.
SS6201 currently (2004) serves the town.
A High School (#7725) was established in 1962 and was still operating in 2004.
Churches: Rev J.E Warren held Methodist services first held in Grant and White's foundry in 1887 and then in W.H. Curtis' general store before a church was built in 1890. About four years later the church building was sold to the Presbyterians and Methodism lapsed. Shortly after the building was shared by both the Methodists and the Presbyterians. In 1898 a new church was planned (and presumably erected) by the Methodists.
Buildings: Before the building of the court house on the corner of High Street and Punt Road in 1912, a court of Petty Sessions sat in the local hall. The court was still sitting in 2000.
A Mechanics' Institute hall no longer survives (details of it are unknown).
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Newspapers: See Cobram and Tocumwal newspapers.
Family History Group: Click here.

Cobram East
Approximate Location: 8km SE of Cobram on the Murray Valley Highway.
Schools: SS2166 opened in 1879, closed in 1904, reopened in 1905 and for parts of 1906 and 1907 operated part-time with SS2587 Yarrowyeh South. It operated full-time from late 1907 and was part-time with SS3111 Naring/Naringaningalook East in 1916 and 1917 and with SS2578 Yarrowyeh South in 1924. It closed in 1941, reopened in 1944 and permanently closed in 1946.

Doodle Swamp
Approximate Location: 10km south of Yarrawonga.

Drumanure
Approximate Location: 8km SE of Numurkah.
Comments: The Post Office was initially called Invergordon (1885) but renamed later.
Schools: SS2611 opened in 1884 and worked part-time with SS2921 Youanmite North in 1911 and with SS2578 Yarroweyah South in the 1920s. The school closed in 1954.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Dunbulbalane
Approximate Location: 10km east of Numurkah.
Schools: SS2366 Naringaningalook opened in 1881 at Dunbulbalane, was renamed Dunbulbalane in 1906 and closed in 1924.
(Also see Invergordon North on this webpage and Katandra North on the City of Greater Shepparton webpage).
Churches: Methodist services were held from about 1879.

Esmond
Approximate Location: 20km ESE of Yarrawonga.
Schools: SS2593 Bundalong opened in 1884, was renamed Esmond in 1900 and closed in 1903.
SS3444 Bundalong opened in 1903 in the re-sited building previously known as SS2593 Esmond. In 1915 the school name was changed to Esmond and the school closed in 1916. The school re-opened in 1918 and after intermittent operation in 1935 it closed in 1936.

Hill Plain
Approximate Location: General locality on Hill Plain Road north of Tungamah and SW of Telford.
Comments: Hill Plain store was located on the corner of Hill Plain and Burramine Roads, and the school and church was further up Hill Plain Road near the junction of May's Hill Road. There was also an unmarked graveyard known as Hill Plain German Cemetery. When the railway line come through the district in the 1880s the church and school moved to a new location on the railway which became known as Telford. (Information courtesy of Anthony Saunders)
Schools: SS2241 Hill Plain opened in 1880. In 1889 the school was moved to nearby Telford and renamed Telford.
SS3071 Hill Plain opened in January 1891 and closed in December 1891.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
(Also see Telford on this webpage.

Invergordon North
Approximate Location: Farming district 30km NE of Shepparton and about 12km ESE of Numurkah.
Comments: Initially called Dunbulbalane West until 1895. Also appears to have been called Invergordon at some time.
Note that the Post Office at Dunbulbalane was initially called Invergordon (1885) but renamed later.
The town is most likely named after the Scottish town of Invergordon.
Schools: SS2076 Invergordon opened in 1878 and closed in 1947.
SS4477 Invergordon South (about 5 km south or SE of Invergordon North) opened in 1931 and closed in 1954.
SS4896 Dunbulbalane opened in 1962 and was still operating in 2004 as SS4896 Invergordon in Invergordon Road.

Kaarimba
Approximate Location: 25km NNE of Shepparton on the Barmah-Shepparton Road and 15km SW of Numurkah.
Comments: A spelling variation of Keerimbe was used in 1885..
Schools: SS2869 operated for less than 6 months in 1889 due to flooding.
(See also schools at Mundoona)

Katamatite
Approximate Location: 40km NE of Shepparton on the Tocumwal-Benalla Road.
Comments: Township surveyed and proclaimed in 1885 on a reserve gazetted in 1875.
Schools: SS2069 opened in 1878 (shortly after the town was gazetted) and was still operational in 2004.
Churches: Methodist services were held from about 1879.
Buildings: A Mechanics' Institute was built in 1884 and a Free Library added a year later. It was replaced by a bigger building in 1891 with extensions in 1936. In 1960, the building was replaced with what is called the Public Hall.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Museum: Click here.
Newspapers: See the Dookie newspapers.

Katamatite East
Approximate Location: 10km NE of Katamatite.
Schools: SS3663 opened in 1910, worked part-time with SS2496 Muckatah from 1938 to 1940. It closed in 1947, re-opened in 1949 and was still operating in 2004

Katunga
Approximate Location: Farming district 10km north of Numurkah.
Comments: Privately subdivided township..
Schools: SS2269 Katunga North opened in 1880. It was renamed Katunga in 1907 and in 1952 was renamed Katunga South when SS4689 Katunga opened in the township. Although the school appears to have moved a few times in its history, it has always remained on the current 2 acre site (one mile south of the town) and yet held the above three confusing names. The school was still operational in 2004.
SS4689 Katunga opened in 1952 just west of Katunga and was still operating in 2004.

Koonoomoo
Approximate Location: 8km NW of Cobram.
Comments: Appears to have also been known as Yarroweyah North.
Schools: SS3138 Koonoomoo opened in 1891, was closed for nearly 12 months in 1897/8 while a new building was erected, and it closed in 1953.

Kotupna
Approximate Location: Farming district situated 35km NW of Shepparton and just north of the Goulburn River on the Murray Valley Highway.
Comments: Named after a local station.
Schools: SS1999 opened in 1878 and closed sometime between 1970 and 2004.
Churches: A Methodist church was built in 1892.

Lake Rowan
Approximate Location: Halfway between Yarrawong and Benalla and 30km north of Benalla.
Comments: George and Christine Rowan ran Peechelba and Glenrowan stations. The township of Karrabumet was officially surveyed and proclaimed in 1889 although the place was generally known as Lake Rowan. In the 1951 review, the town was re-proclaimed as Lake Rowan.
Schools: SS1705 opened in 1876 as Karrabumet, but changed its name almost immediately to Lake Rowan. Was part-time with Pelluebla South SS1929 from 1947 to its closure in 1950.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery Click here.
Newspapers: See the Tungamah and Yarrawonga newspapers.

Lower Moira
Approximate Location: Locality 8km SE of Barmah and 15km west of Nathalia.
Schools: SS2470 opened in 1882. From 1898 until 1908 the school worked part-time with SS2298 Wakiti Creek, then operated part-time until about 1914. Until its closure in 1922 it operated in both full and part-time modes. In 1933 it re-opened, working part-time with SS2298 Wakiti Creek for some time and permanently closed in 1942.

Marungi
Approximate Location: 25km NNE of Shepparton on the Katamatite-Shepparton Road.
Schools: SS2236 opened in 1880 and closed in 1957.

Muckatah
Approximate Location: 10km south of Cobram and 7 km NW of Katamatite.
Comments: The area was called Katamatite North until about the 1880s.
Schools: SS2496 Muckatah opened in 1882, closed in 1920, re-opened part-time with SS3663 Katamatite East in 1938, resumed full-time operation in 1940 and closed in 1954 when the Cobram Consolidated School SS2881 opened.

Mundoona
Approximate Location: 30km north of Shepparton, 10km SW of Numurkah and 3km east of Kaarimba.
Comments: Named after a local station.
Schools: SS1775 Karimba opened in 1876, was renamed Mundoona in 1882 and worked part-time from 1896 until its closure in 1904. The school re-opened in 1912 and permanently closed in 1953.
SS2692 Mundoona North opened in 18885, operated part-time with SS2417 Baulkamaugh North from 1903 until it resumed full-time operation in 1906 but closed in 1912. The school appears to have been a couple of kilometres NW of Mundoona.
 

Mywee
Approximate Location: 5km north of Strathmerton.
Comments: Town/locality was originally called Sheepwash Creek (note that numerous Sheepwash Creeks have and still exist).
Schools: SS3200 Sheepwash Creek opened in 1894, closed in 1922, re-opened in 1933 and finally closed some time between 1970 and 2004. The school name was changed to Mywee Railway Station and finally to Mywee.

Naring
Approximate Location: Farming town 7km NW of Katamatite.
Comments: Although the name seemed to have changed from Naringaningalook to Naring in the 1930s, Naringaningalook was still in use in maps in the 1990s.
Schools: SS2410 Naringaningalook opened in 1881 in the Wesleyan Church until a separate schoolhouse was built in 1891. The school was renamed Naring West in 1935. In 1938 the school became part-time with SS3111 Naring and then with SS2921 Youanmite North later the same year before closing in 1940.
SS3111 Naringaningalook East opened in 1891, worked part-time with SS2166 Cobram East in 1916 and resumed full-time operation in 1917. It again operated part-time with SS2301 Youarang North for about one month in 1918 before closing. It re-opened in 1935 and changed its name to Naringa East, worked part-time with SS2410 Naring West in 1938 before closing again later that year. It re-opened in 1942 and finally closed in 1960.
(Also see schools  Dunbulbalane and Sandmount)

Narioka
Approximate Location: 11km west of Nathalia. Appears to be about where both the Kotupna-Barmah Road and the James Bridge Road intersect with the Barmah-Shepparton Road.
Schools: SS2214 opened in 1880, was part-time with SS2221 Barwo West in 1908, worked part-time with SS2298 Wakiti Creek during the 1930s and closed in 1946.
Churches: A Methodist church was built in 1886.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Nathalia
Approximate Location: 40km NNW of Shepparton on the Broken River and on the Murray Valley Highway.
Comments: The township was surveyed in 1879 and proclaimed in 1880.
Schools: SS2060 Barwo opened in 1878 and was renamed Nathalia in 1882. It became a Higher Elementary School in 1919 and reverted to a Primary School in 1959 when the High School (#8140) became a separate entity. The Primary School and High School were still operational in 2004 on different sites.
Churches: Methodist services were held in private homes prior to a wooden church being erected in 1878 and replaced by a brick building 1886. A church built at Yielma in 1878 was later removed to Nathalia as a transept.
Buildings:  A Mechanics' Institute hall was built on Pearce Street in 1887. It closed in 1888 re-opened in 1892 and finally closed in 1894. The hall was owned by the Independent Order of Rechabites until 1944 and then had various commercial uses until being used by the Nathalia and Didtrict Historical Society since the 1970s.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Family History Group and Historical Society: Click here.
Newspapers: Click here.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Numurkah
Approximate Location: 30km north of Shepparton on the Goulburn Valley Highway.
Comments: The township was surveyed and proclaimed in 1875.
Schools: SS2134 opened in 1879. In 1924 it became a Higher Elementary School but reverted to a Primary School in 1951 when the High School (#8190) became a separate entity. Both were still operational in 2004 on separate sites.
Churches: Rev John Orchard (based in Wunghnu) opened a Bible Christian Church here on 21 December 1879. The original wooden church and the replacement brick church were both destroyed by fire. Wesleyans followed closely behind, working amicably, and were united in 1900.
Buildings: A Mechanics' Institute was formed in 1882 and resulted in a hall being constructed in Melville Street the following year. The shire took over the building in 1938 and it is now  commercial premises.
Initially court hearings were held in the Farmers' Arm Hotel and then in the Mechanics' Institute until a court house was built in 1890 in Melville Street. The last sitting of the Magistrate's Court was in 1990.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Newspapers: Click here.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Ovens Bridge
Approximate Location: Somewhere north of Peechelba but south of Bundalong South.
Comments: Initially a post WWI soldier settlement and presumably a bridge over the Ovens River.
Schools: SS4343 opened in 1927 in the Soldiers Hall. A new school house opened in 1930. The school closed in 1942 and the school house was removed to SS643 Wangaratta.

Pelluebla
Approximate Location: About 7-8km SW of Wilby.
Schools: SS1929 Pelluebla South opened in 1877 located somewhere near (or just north of) Lake Rowan and closed in 1908.
Cemetery: For details of the Old Pelleubla Cemetery, now called the Wilby Cemetery click here.

Picola
Approximate Location: 10km NW of Nathalia.
Comments: The township was proclaimed in 1907 but not renewed in the 1951 review.
Schools: SS1989 opened in 1878 and closed some time after 1970.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Picola North
Approximate Location: About 7km NNE of Picola.
Schools: SS2186 opened in 1879 and closed in 1894.

Picola West
Approximate Location: Rural locality about 5km NW of Picola.
Schools: SS2558 opened in 1884 and closed in 1953.
Churches: A Methodist church was built in 1885.

Sandmount
Approximate Location: 10km SW of Cobram.
Schools: SS2595 Naringaningalook North opened in 1884 and closed some time after 1970. The school was renamed Sandmount at some unknown time.

St James
Approximate Location: 30km NNE of Benalla and 12km south of Tungamah.
Comments: St James was a privately subdivided township.
Schools: SS2579 St James Railway Station opened in 1884. The Railway Station part of the name was used to distinguish from SS1764 St James in nearby Devenish East, however it had been renamed simply St James by 1890. The school closed some time after 1970.
SS2996 St James North (location unknown) opened in 1889 and closed in 1921.
(Also see Devenish on the Rural City of Benalla page)

Strathmerton
Approximate Location: 20km west of Cobram on the Murray Valley Highway.
Schools: SS2440 opened in 1882. In 1905 it began operating part-time with SS2792 Strathmerton West until it closed in 1908.
SS2790 Strathmerton opened in 1886 and was still operational in 2004.
SS2792 Strathmerton West opened in 1887 (about 8km SW of Strathmerton) and had intermittent and part-time operation prior to operating part-time with SS2440 Strathmerton in 1905. When SS2440 closed in 1908 the school resumed full-time operation until it closed in 1941.
SS3039 Strathmerton East (location unknown) opened in 1890 and closed in 1891.
Newspapers: See the entry under the Cobram newspaper.

Telford
Approximate Location: 10km SW of Yarrawonga.
Comments: Telford was a privately subdivided township. Hill Plain appears to have been somewhere SW of (and close to) Telford as there is a Hill Plain Road a few Kilometres SW of Telford.
Schools: SS2241 Hill Plain opened in 1880. In 1889 the school was moved to nearby Telford and renamed Telford. In 1917 the school operated part-time with SS3822 Telford West but resumed full-time operation later that year when SS3822 closed. The school closed in 1962.
SS3822 Telford West opened in 1913 and in 1917 the school was amalgamated with SS2241 Telford.
(Also see Hill Plain on this webpage.

Tungamah
Approximate Location: 45km North of Benalla.
Comments: The township was surveyed and proclaimed in 1875.
Schools: SS2225 opened about 1880 and was still operational in 2004.
SS2610 Tharanbegga opened in 1884. The school was relocated and renamed Tharanbegga South in the late 1880s and closed in 1891. One of these Tharanbegga schools was located on Pelluebla Road.
Buildings: A court house was built in Argus Street in 1889. The court house was officially closed in 1976.
Buildings: A public hall is in existence (details of it are unknown).
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Newspapers: Click here and also look there under Yarrawonga.
Books: See the Books page for details of a book about the Shire of Tungamah.

Ulupna
Approximate Location: 8km NW of Strathmerton.
Schools: SS2598 opened in 1884 (the school was initially known as Ulupna West), closed in 1930, re-opened in 1938, closed in 1943, re-opened again and permanently closed in 1952.

Ulupna North
Approximate Location: NE of Ulupna between the Murray River and the Ulupna Creek.
Schools: SS3097 Ulupna North opened in 1891 and closed in 1895. During part of that time, it worked part-time with SS2598 Ulupna.
SS3676 Ulupna North opened in 1911 and closed in 1918.

Ulupna West
Approximate Location: Rural locality about 10km west of Ulupna.

Waaia
Approximate Location: 10km NW of Numurkah.
Comments: The original township was surveyed in 1875 and proclaimed in 1910 at a site some 5 kilometres south of the current site. But like many other towns, people relocated to the current site when the railway went through and a station was established. The original site became known as Waais South.
Schools: SS1950 Waaia South (location unknown) opened in 1877. It was initially called Waaia but was renamed Waaia South in the early 1890s when SS2986 Baulkamaugh West was renamed Waaia. It operated part-time with SS2221 Barwo West for most of 1915 and closed in 1916.
SS2817 Waaia West (location unknown) opened in 1887 part-time with SS2221 Barwo West and had intermittent operation until its closure in 1898.
SS2986 Baulkamaugh West opened in 1890 but was renamed Waaia in the early 1890s because of its proximity to Waaia. The school closed some time between 1970 and 2004.

Waggarandall
Approximate Location: 12km SW of Tungamah and about 35km NW of Benalla.
Schools: SS2449 Waggarandall North (location unknown) opened in 1882, In 1894 it began operating part-time with SS2301 Youarang North and resumed full-time operation in 1897, The school closed in 1918.
SS3069 Waggarandall North West (location unknown) opened in 1890 and closed in 1892 when SS2449 was moved to the same site.
SS4078 Waggarandall West opened in 1922, worked part-time with SS2483 Yabba North from 1949 until its closure in 1951.
(Also see Wattville and Yundool for more school details)
Cemetery: Unfortunately no details of a cemetery here.

Wakiti Creek
Approximate Location: 9km west of Kotupna.
Schools: SS2298 opened in 1880 and possibly worked part-time with SS2470 Lower Moira from 1898 to 1908. In the 1930s it worked part-time with SS2214 Narioka and then again with SS2470 Lower Moira.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Wattville
Approximate Location: Rural locality 5km SW of Waggarandall.
Schools: SS2524 Waggarandall West appears to have opened part-time with SS 1527 Dookie South in 1882, became full-time in 1883. Following a relocation of the school in 1894 it was renamed Wattville. The school closed in 1903.

Wilby
Approximate Location: 15km south of Yarrawonga.
Comments: The township was surveyed and proclaimed in 1888. The original school name suggests that this area was also known as Pelluebla East.
Schools: SS2288 Pelluebla East opened in 1880 and closed in 1966. At some time, the school�s name was changed to Wilby.
Buildings: A public hall is in existence (details of it are unknown).
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.

Wunghnu
Approximate Location: 25km north of Shepparton on the Goulburn Valley Highway.
Comments: The township was surveyed and proclaimed in 1877.
Schools: SS1938 opened in 1877 and was still operational in 2004.
Churches: Rev John Orchard established the local headquarters of the Bible Christian Church (later uniting with the Methodists) here in 1879 and a church was built the same year.
Buildings:  A Mechanics' Institute hall was built in 1887, partially destroyed by fire shortly after its opening and was restored. It has since been sold.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Newspapers: Look under Numurkah and Shepparton newspapers.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Yabba North
Approximate Location: 30km NE of Shepparton.
Comments: Not to be confused with the town of Yabba near Tallangatta nearly 200km to the east.
Schools: SS2483 Yabba Yabba opened in 1882, closed in 1906, re-opened in 1909, closed in 1929, re-opened 1932 with the name Yabba North, closed 1943 and re-opened part-time with SS4078 Waggarandall West from 1949 before permanently closing in 1951.

Yabba South
Approximate Location: 25km NE of Shepparton and 6km south of Yabba North.
Comments: Not to be confused with the town of Yabba near Tallangatta nearly 200km to the east.
Schools: SS2609 Yabba Yabba South opened in 1884, operated intermittently during 1895 and 1896 and between 1913 and 1923 before permanently closing in 1941. The school was known simply as Yabba South in the later part of its life.

Yalca
Approximate Location: 5km west of Baulkamaugh North on the Katunga-Picola Road (near the intersection with the Waaia Road).
Schools: SS2821 Yalca East (location unknown) opened in 1887 part-time with SS2839 Bearii for its first year. It had intermittent operation until it closed in 1906.
Churches: A Bible Christian Church (later to be united with Wesleyan) was erected at Yalca in 1882.
A Methodist church was built in 1882.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery at Yalca North, click here.

Yalca North
Approximate Location: Situated on the the Murray Valley Highway 22km due west of Strathmerton, about 10km NW of Yalca and 15km NE of Picola.
Schools: SS2570 Yalca North opened in 1884 and closed in 1915. The school was also known as Yielima North.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery at Yalca North, click here.

Yalca South
Approximate Location: 10km NE of Nathalia and about 3km west of Yalca. Appears to be about the intersection of the Katunga-Picola Rd and Mathers Road.
Schools: SS2198 opened in 1880, operated part-time with SS4096 Yielima North in 1927, had a temporary closure in 1928 and closed some time between 1970 and 2004.
Churches: A Methodist church was built prior to 1900.

Yambuna
Approximate Location: About 12km west of Kotupna on the banks of the Goulburn River.

Yarrawonga
Approximate Location: On the Murray River and Victorian-NSW border, 100km east of Albury-Wodonga and 50km NNW of Wangaratta.
Comments: Township surveyed in 1868 and proclaimed in 1881.
Schools: A school appears to have begun operation as part of SS1776 Burramine in 1876 before becoming a separate school SS1819 in 1877. The school became a Higher Elementary School in 1919 and reverted to a primary school when a separate High School (#8495) was established in 1954.
SS2194 Yarrawonga South (about 10km south of Yarrawonga) opened in 1879, was part-time with SS3282 Bundalong West in 1902/3 and closed in 1904.
Buildings: A court house was built in Piper Street in 1888 and closed in 1989.
Organisations:  A Mechanics' Institute hall was built on Piper Street in 1879. In 1910 it purchased the Athenaeum Hall and moved its library there, but this was only a short stay as in 1930 the library was moved into the newly built Town Hall. The library is now currently housed in the council building.
Historical Society: Click here.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Museum: Click here.
Newspapers: Click here.

Yarrawonga South
Approximate Location: Locality about 8km south of Yarrawonga.

Yarroweyah
Approximate Location: 8km west of Cobram on the Murray Valley Highway.
Comments: Privately subdivided township.
Schools: SS2425 opened in 1881 in the Wesleyan Church before a schoolhouse was built in 1884 and closed in 1953 when the Cobram Consolidated School SS2881 opened.

Yarroweyah South
Approximate Location: 10km SSW of Cobram and 7km SE of Yarroweyah.
Schools: SS2578 opened in 1884, operated part-time with SS2166 Cobram East for parts of 1906 and 1907 before it closed in 1907. It re-opened in 1923, and again operated part-time with SS2166 Cobram East in 1924, closed 1928, re-opened at some unknown date and permanently closed in 1950.

Yeerip
Approximate Location: Farming area 20km NW of Wangaratta.

Yielima
Approximate Location: About 15km due north of Nathalia and about 25km due west of Strathmerton.
Comments: Yielima North is about 5km north of Yielima.
Yielima South (location unknown) was once called Dry Dam.
The Yalca North school was also occasionally called the Yielima North school.
Schools: SS2268 Yielima opened in 1880 and closed in 1951.
SS2928 Yielima South (location unknown) opened in 1889 and closed in 1915.
SS3463 Yielma North West operated from 1904 to 1944 and was possibly operating part-time with SS2221 Barwo in 1916. The school was apparently located near Nicholson's Sawmill to cater for the sawmillers children.
SS4096 Yielima North opened in 1922, closed for a while, re-opened part-time with SS2198 Yalca South in 1927, resumed full-time operation in 1928 and closed in 1945.
Churches: A Methodist church built at Yielma in 1878 but  later removed to Nathalia.

Youanmite
Approximate Location: 8km south of Katamatite.
Schools: SS2393 Youanmite opened in 1881 and closed in 1915.
SS2921 Youanmite [North?] opened in 1889 in a Bible Christian Chapel (location unknown). In 1907 the school was relocated to a site NW of Youanmite. In 1911 it was operating part-time with SS2611 Drumanure and operated part-time with SS2410 Naring West in 1938 before it closed in 1940. It re-opened 1948 and permanently closed in 1956.
SS3641 Youanmite Township opened in 1910 and the name abbreviated to Youanmite in 1919 as SS2393 had closed by then. SS3641 closed some time between 1970 and 2004.
SS3953 Youanmite South opened in 1918 and closed in 1965.
Churches: Methodist services were held from about 1878.

Youarang
Approximate Location: 7km west of Tungamah.
Schools: SS1923 Youarang opened in 1877 and closed in 1950. SS2301 Youarang North (location unknown) opened in 1881. It worked part-time with SS2474 Boosey North in 1884, part-time with SS2449 Waggarandall North from 1894 to 1897, operating full-time from late 1897 until it closed in late 1906. It re-opened in 1908, worked part-time with SS3111 Naring/Naringaningalook East for a brief time in 1918 and permanently closed in 1933.

Yundool
Approximate Location: 10km SSW of Tungamah and about 35km NW of Benalla.
Schools: SS1833 Waggarandall opened in 1877 in Waggarandall but was moved to, and renamed, Yundool in 1902. It closed in in 1947, re-opened in 1957 and closed some time after 1970.

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