Tyabb, Victoria

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Tyabb
Melbourne, Victoria

Tyabb shopping strip at the intersection of Mornington-Tyabb Road and Frankston-Flinders Road

Population:

2670 (2006)^[1]

Postcode:

3913

Area:

66.5 km² (25.7 sq mi)

Property Value:

AUD $246,250 ^[2]

Location:

57 km (35 mi) from Melbourne
5 km (3 mi) from Hastings

LGA:

Shire of Mornington Peninsula

State District:

Hastings

Federal Division:

Flinders

Suburbs around Tyabb:
	Somerville
Moorooduc	Tyabb	Western Port
	Hastings

Tyabb is a small town South East of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. It is served by the Tyabb railway station on the Stony Point greater-metropolitan line.

Tyabb is known for its many antique shops. The largest, the Tyabb Packing House Antique Centre is housed in an historic Cool Store building dating from the areas fruit growing past. The Tyabb Packing House Antique Centre reputedly has one of the largest retail antique collections under one roof in the southern hemisphere. There are several other quality antique shops in the Tyabb township.

Tyabb is also home to La Lupa pizza and pasta, who have a name for making the best pizza's on the Mornington Peninsula.

Tyabb is also notorious because of the Tyabb airfield. Tyabb airfield has had plans to develop and expand its runways and helipads, this has met with significant objection by the residents of the town whose houses lie within the flight paths of most air traffic related to the Tyabb airfield.

Recently there has been rapid residential development in the town. It also has its own cricket, baseball and football team known as the Yabbies.

Tyabb also has a Craft Village that boasts a number of artisans including a; dressmaker, potter, jeweller, quilt maker and painters / art gallery.

Tyabb is one of the few (if not the only) towns in Australia that does not have a pub. Although the town is over 100 years old it has never had a pub.

Tyabb has given its name to: The Tyabb Fault, an ancient geological formation extending from Tyabb across the Peninsula to Mornington. Tyabb Loam, the characteristic soil of the district.