Lethbridge is a rural

Rural

Rural areas or the country or countryside are areas that are not urbanized, though when large areas are described, country towns and smaller cities will be included. They have a low population density, and typically much of the land is devoted to agriculture...

 township

Township

The word township is used to refer to different kinds of settlements in different countries. Township is generally associated with an urban area. However there are many exceptions to this rule. In Australia, the United States, and Canada, they may be settlements too small to be considered urban...

 outside Geelong, Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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, Australia

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. Bluestone

Bluestone

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 from Lethbridge quarries was used to build several significant buildings in Melbourne

Melbourne

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, including the steps to the Parliament House

Parliament House, Melbourne

Parliament House in Melbourne, located at Spring Street in East Melbourne at the edge of the Melbourne city centre, has been the seat of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, since 1855 .- History :In 1851, even before the colony of Victoria acquired full parliamentary self-government, Governor...

. At the 2006 census

Census in Australia

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, Lethbridge had a population of 495.

Lethbridge Post Office opened on 10 September 1857 and closed in 1980.

The community of Lethbridge has a range of facilities and services including, but not limited to:

• Lethbridge Primary School
• The town hall (which offers community groups include Playgroup, Karate, Cub scouts and individual functions)
• Lethbridge Airpark
  Lethbridge Airpark
  Lethbridge Airpark is a privately owned aerodrome located 6km north of the rural township of Lethbridge and 35km north of the city of Geelong in Victoria, Australia. It caters to private and recreational pilots, and offers flight training....
  
  
• Sports facility (with two football ovals and a tennis court)
• Uniting Church
  Uniting Church in Australia
  The Uniting Church in Australia was formed on 22 June 1977 when many congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union....
  
   (Now closed and a residential property)
• St. Josephs Catholic
  Catholic
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   church (part of the Meredith Parish, but is currently out of use)
• Hairdresser
• General store
• CFA
  Country Fire Authority
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The railway came to the town with the opening of the Geelong-Ballarat line in 1862, with the local railway station

Lethbridge railway station, Victoria

Lethbridge is a railway station on the Geelong-Ballarat railway line located in the township of Lethbridge, Victoria, Australia. Currently freight trains pass the station, but no V/Line passenger trains....

 opened soon after, but today only grain and fruit trains use the line.

Peter Lalor

Peter Lalor

Peter Fintan Lalor was an activist turned politician who rose to fame for his leading role in the Eureka Rebellion, an event controversially identified with the "birth of democracy" in Australia.- Early life and migration to Australia :...

, the leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion, hid overnight in Lethbridge while fleeing from Ballarat

Ballarat, Victoria

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 to Geelong in November 1854.