Birchip is a town in the Mallee region of Victoria, Australia on the Sunraysia Highway north of Donald. The town is located in the Shire of Buloke local government area. At the 2011 census, Birchip had a population of 662. It has a P-12 school, and an Australian rules football club called Birchip-Watchem, also known as the Birchip-Watchem Bulls, or just the Bulls.A pastoral run was established in the region named Wirmburchep and when surveyed a parish was gazetted as Wirmbirchip. Closer settlement began in the area by then known as Wirrimbirchip around 1882 and a Post Office under that name opened on 2 July 1883 . The town was surveyed as Birchip in 18...
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