Oxley, Victoria

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Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Oxley is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on Snow Road, Script error: No such module "convert". south-east of Wangaratta, in the Rural City of Wangaratta. At the Template:CensusAU, Oxley had a population of 631.[1]

Oxley derives its name from the Oxley Plains, which were named in 1824 by the explorers Hume and Hovell after John Oxley, the Surveyor-General of New South Wales. Oxley Post Office opened on 1 January 1870. An earlier office named Oxley became Milawa.[2] The township served as the administrative centre of the Shire of Oxley until 1936.

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Jones, Graham (1995) Memories of Oxley, Charquin Hill Publishing.

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