Wallan

Wallan, traditionally known as Wallan Wallan, is a town in Victoria, 51 kilometres north of Melbourne’s Central Business District. The town sits at the southern end of the large and diverse Shire of Mitchell which extends from the northern fringes of Melbourne into the farming country of north-central Victoria and the lower Goulburn Valley. The township flanks the Hume Freeway and is set against the backdrop of the Great Dividing Range. At the 2016 census, Wallan had a population of 8,520.