Tarrington, Victoria

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Tarrington

| state = vic

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| coordinates = {{coord|37|46|S|142|06|E|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_label_position = right

| lga = Shire of Southern Grampians

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| postcode = 3301

| est =

| pop = 328

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}

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| stategov = Lowan

| fedgov = Wannon

| dist1 = 314

| dir1 = W

| location1= Melbourne

| dist2 = 9

| dir2 = SE

| location2= Hamilton

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Tarrington is a village in the Southern Grampians Shire in South-west Victoria, Australia close to Hamilton. It has a large Lutheran Church, along with a school, church, hall, oval, cafe/restaurant, computer repair service, quarry, day-care centre and a fire station. At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Tarrington had a population of 328.{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL22462|name=Tarrington|access-date=13 July 2023}}

File:Hochkirch Victoria postmark 1894.jpg

Tarrington was formerly known as Bukecy or Hochkirch, named by Sorbian immigrants coming from the area of that name in Saxony, Germany.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}} The town was settled in the early 1860s and the Hochkirch Post Office opened on 15 February 1861 (now closed and replaced by a hut that houses PO boxes) and renamed Tarrington on 1 March 1918 due to the anti-German sentiment of that time.{{Citation | last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Tarrington* | access-date = 6 March 2021}}