Haddon is a town just a few kilometres west the city of Ballarat. It is in the Golden Plains Shire

Golden Plains Shire

Golden Plains Shire is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. It is located in the south-western part of the state. It includes the towns of Bannockburn, Gheringhap, Linton, Berringa and Meredith. It has an area of 2,721 square kilometres. In 2009 it had a population of 18,173...

. The township only has a population a bit above 1,000 people. Its postcode is 3351.

There is a primary school and kindergarten to cover education, a bottle-shop and a general store(with petrol) to cover food. A fire station, a nursery, gun club, the Haddon Lions Park, the Haddon memorial park, a playground, a skatepark, a recreation reserve and the Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail

Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail

The Ballarat–Skipton Rail Trail in western Victoria, Australia, runs 53 kilometres along the old Skipton railway line from western Ballarat, southwest through Haddon, Smythesdale and Pittong to Skipton...

. There is also the Ballarat go-kart club. With Ballarat growing rapidly to the west, Haddon in a few years will be a suburb of Ballarat.

Main Roads

Haddon is set on three main roads which end at a roundabout in the town centre. There is Sago Hill Road which goes to Bunkers Hill in the north-east and ends on Ballart-Carngham Road. Haddon-Windermere Road goes to the north to Windermere (Cardigian Village) and ends on Ballarat Remembrance Drive which follows onto the Western Highway

Western Highway

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. The last main road is the Ross Creek-Haddon Road which goes south and crosses on the Glenelg Highway

Glenelg Highway

The Glenelg Highway is a 301 kilometre highway in south-eastern Australia, linking Mount Gambier with Ballarat. Most of the highway is located within the Western part of the state of Victoria; except for a short, 15 km stretch from the South Australia/Victoria state border near Ardno to...

 and follows down to Ross Creek. There is another road to the west that is a main road only really in the town centre then it is hardly used, it is called Racecourse Road.

Rivers

Haddon is also set on a river, it is called the Woady Yaloak River. It starts not far from Haddon and runs through the lions park and just keeps running south through Smythesdale, Scarsdale and Cressy

Cressy

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before running into Lake Corangamite. At Haddon there are three bridges crossing the river, two walk bridges and Racecourse Road.