Netherby

Netherby is a rural village in north-west Victoria, near the northern limit of the Wimmera district. It is 25 km north of Nhill and 30 km west of Jeparit.

Apart from the Lorquon pastoral run (1851), a farm settler at Netherby occupied land near a swamp in 1884. It was known as the Rupeal or Warraquil swamp, and until 1886 the settlement which arose was named Warraquil. It was changed to Netherby in 1886 to avoid confusion with a similar-sounding town in eastern Victoria. The inspiration for Netherby was the name of a place in the poem Young Lochinvar by Walter Scott.