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Haddon is a town just a few kilometres west the city of Ballarat. It is in the Golden Plains Shire. 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. 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.
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. The last main road is the Ross Creek-Haddon Road which goes south and crosses on the Glenelg Highway 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.
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 before running into Lake Corangamite. At Haddon there are three bridges crossing the river, two walk bridges and Racecourse Road.
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