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Terang resides on the West Victorian Volcanic Plains, a region stretching westward from Melbourne almost to South Australia.

The volcanic plains are flat to undulating and feature many hills formed by dormant and extinct volcanoes. The plains are predominantly composed of basalt and have a recent geologically history. The town borders a roughly circular maar crater which until the 1930s contained water.

Lake Terang disappeared over time but was and was finally drained and is now partly a golfcourse and polo field, complete with encircling 4.8km walking track.

Terang is located 216 km west of Melbourne, and is an attractive, medium-sized rural centre which serves an irrigated farming, dairying and pastoral district. It has a population of some 2500 people. Warrnambool is only 35 minutes away by road.

Link to map of Terang township

Terang is notable for its beautiful trees, including English Oaks, Planes and Cottonwood Poplars. Many of these are classified by the National Trust. The oldest avenue of English Oaks, in High Street, was planted in the 1890s.

Terang boasts a large nuber of notable historic homesteads, however most are privately owned such as Keayang or Noogee homestead.

Terang and district is well served with primary and secondary schools, churches, service clubs, an expanding industrial estate, family businesses, a hospital and day centre, play grounds, golf course, sports stadium, trotting and racing tracks, agricultural college, gardens and attractive scenery.

The very English flora connection is completed by the rose garden in the town centre. The rose garden was established by the local Rotary Club whose appeal to townsfolk to donate a bloom produced a starter-stock of 1000 plants.

The town’s centrepiece, however, is the post office with its distinctive clock tower which began keeping time in 1904. The tower, in fact, was the first in the Commonwealth to be funded by public subscription.