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| | type = town
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| | name = Merricks
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| | state = vic
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| | image = File:Merricks General Store 2023-02-24.jpg
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| | caption = Merricks General Store
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| | lga = Shire of Mornington Peninsula
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| | alternative_location_map = Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne
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| | coordinates = {{coord|38.390|S|145.089|E|display=inline,title}}
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| | postcode = 3916
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| | pop = 184 | |
| | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}
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| | pop_footnotes = <ref name=abs>{{Census 2021 AUS | id = SAL21662 | name = Merricks (Suburbs and Localities) | accessdate = 12 July 2022 | quick = on}}</ref>
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| | est = 1860s
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| | stategov = [[Electoral district of Nepean|Nepean]]
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| | fedgov = [[Division of Flinders|Flinders]]
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| | dist1 = 71
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| | location1 = [[Melbourne]]
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| | location2 = [[Hastings, Victoria|Hastings]]
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| '''Merricks''' is a town in the south-eastern extremity of the [[Mornington Peninsula]] in [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]], [[Australia]], approximately {{convert|65|km|abbr=on}} south-east of Melbourne's [[Melbourne City Centre|Central Business District]], located within the [[Shire of Mornington Peninsula]] [[Local government areas of Victoria|local government area]]. Merricks recorded a population of 184 at the [[2021 Australian census|2021 census]].<ref name=abs/>
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| Merricks is located between [[Hastings, Victoria|Hastings]] and [[Flinders, Victoria|Flinders]].
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| ==History==
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| Merricks was part of the Parish of [[Balnarring, Victoria|Balnarring]] and is believed to be named after an early cattle station owner. It was first settled in 1865 by John Caldwell, who built "Koonoona", a wattle cottage. Unlike Balnarring and Hastings, Merricks's early settlers preferred running cattle and sheep to growing orchards. In 1902 a post office opened which was served by [[Cobb and Co]] from [[Crib Point, Victoria|Crib Point]]; this closed in 1979.<ref name = "PostOffice">{{Cite web
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| | postscript = <!--None--> }}</ref> In 1920, a co-operative cool store was built in nearby [[Red Hill, Victoria|Red Hill]], and from 1921 until 1953, a railway from [[Bittern, Victoria|Bittern]] to Red Hill travelled through Merricks, although it received little use after its initial decade of service. A small primary school was also opened in 1921, closing in 1951 along with several others in the region when Red Hill Consolidated School commenced.
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| The Victorian Municipal Directory in 1962 stated that Merricks contained "(only) a general store and post and telegraph office".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Documents/SE/PlanStrategic/HastHeritageStudyVol2.pdf |title=Volume 2, Environmental History |author=Graeme Butler & Associates |work=Hastings District Heritage Study Stage Two |accessdate=2006-11-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828040220/http://www.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Documents/SE/PlanStrategic/HastHeritageStudyVol2.pdf |archivedate=2006-08-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| ==Present day==
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| Merricks is a tiny settlement along the Frankston-Flinders Road which has changed little over the years from its earlier rural functions, and many of the original settler houses still stand today. It features a newly restored General Store (built in 1927) incorporating a post office and newsagency, the Peninsula Quarter Horse Association's base and a chocolate factory. Also in Merricks are the [http://www.merrickscreek.com/ Merricks Creek] vineyard specialising in [[pinot noir]] production and [https://web.archive.org/web/20061109124907/http://www.stoniers.com.au/ Stoniers Winery] (1978) producing [[chardonnay]] and pinot noir.
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| A 6.3 km mostly tree-lined horse riding trail, established by the former Shire of Hastings in the mid-1980s along a disused railway route, runs roughly east–west from Merricks Station Ground Reserve to [[Red Hill, Victoria|Red Hill]] through mostly rural land between the Coolart and East Creeks.
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| Merricks is served by the [[List of Melbourne bus routes|782 bus route]] operated by [[Ventura Bus Lines]] between [[Frankston railway station|Frankston]] and Flinders.<ref>{{Cite PTV route|route=782|mode=bus|access-date=10 March 2019}}</ref>
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Shire of Hastings]] – Merricks was previously within this former local government area.
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| * {{cite book|author=Balnarring and District Historical Society|year=2003|title=Balnarring Byways and Memories (4 volumes, 1995-2003)}}
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