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Rochester (Vic.)

Local Government Area
Campaspe
Population
3,154 (2021 census)
Area
86.36 km²
Coordinates
-36.3614, 144.6805
Data
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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About Rochester (Vic.)

Rochester is a town on the Campaspe River in central-northern Victoria, about 180 km north of Melbourne, between Bendigo and Echuca. Named after Dr John Pearson Rowe, who kept a hotel on the site, it was gazetted in 1855 and reached by railway from Bendigo in 1864. It was the birthplace of the champion cyclist Sir Hubert Opperman, celebrated with a museum and statue, and suffered its worst flood on record in January 2011, when around 80 per cent of the town was inundated.

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