Pimpinio, Victoria

Pimpinio (/pɪmpɪˈnaɪoʊ/ pim-pi-NY-oh) is a town in the Rural City of Horsham, Victoria, Australia.

When the railway line from Horsham to Dimboola was extended via Pimpinio, a store was built.

Several farms ran small dairy herds and formed a cooperative butter factory that continued until a drought occurred in the late 1890s.

In the 1903 edition of Australian Handbook, Pimpinio was described as follows: A postal township, county Borung, electoral district Horsham, shire Wimmera.

), store, blacksmith's shop, butter factory, machinery valued £1,000, and a State school (No.

92.1% of current residents were born in Australia, with the most commonly reported ancestry being English, Australian, Irish, Scottish and German.

The club was established in 1890, joined the Horsham & District Football League in 1968, and has won two premierships in 2005 and 2006.

[11] Pimpinio has an Australian Rules football oval and recreation reserve and a Uniting Church.

Pimpinio is adjacent to the West Wail Nature Conservation Reserve, which is about 1,455 acres in size and conserves remnant Buloke woodlands and a number of threatened flora species, including Wimmera spider orchids and rigid spider orchids.

A sheaf tossing competition in Pimpinio, Victoria, Australia, circa 1913