Beveridge is a town in Victoria, Australia

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, located along the Hume Highway

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, 42 kilometres north of Melbourne

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 in the Shire of Mitchell. A western rural portion of the locality is within the City of Whittlesea

City of Whittlesea

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 in Greater Melbourne. At the 2006 census

Census in Australia

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, Beveridge and the surrounding area had a population of 1,192.
Beveridge was named after Scottish sheep farmer Andrew Beveridge who built the Hunters' Tryste Inn in 1845. The Inn still serves as a hotel, as well as post office and general store..

Beveridge Post Office opened on 1 January 1865.

Near Beveridge is Mount Fraser, an eroded extinct volcanic cone.