It sits approximately 247 kilometres (153 mi) west of the state capital, Melbourne.

By 1872 he had acquired freehold to several allotments totalling over 2,000 acres and the north-west corner of Ballangeich following the 1869 Selection Act.

On hearing of this, Captain Eddington started off on horseback – at night – to lodge a petition that it be declared a cemetery.

The letter signed by the superintendent Charles La Trobe, made the necessary grant dated 1848.

[2] On 16 February 1983, one of the Ash Wednesday fires started in Ballangeich, destroying many homes, farm buildings and livestock.