page_title: Halls Gap
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Halls Gap / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The Flume in Hall's Gap, Victoria
context_page_description: Halls Gap is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on Grampians Road, adjacent to the Grampians National Park, in the Shire of Northern Grampians local government area. The town is set in the Fyans Valley at the foot of the Wonderland and Mount William ranges. At the 2016 census Halls Gap had a population of 430. The approximate driving time from Melbourne is 3 hours.
context_section_description: The first settler was Charles Browning Hall who set out in search of a suitable grazing run when he found the cattle market at Port Phillip overstocked in 1841. Establishing a station just east of the Grampians in a spot known as "Mokepilli" to the indigenous inhabitants (probably the Djab wurrung). Halls Gap was originally located at where the now Lake Bellfield Reservoir is now located.
  By following aboriginal tracks he came upon the gap which now bears his name.
  Hall's Gap Post Office opened on 3 February 1893, closed in 1896, and reopened in 1902.
caption: The Flume in Hall's Gap, Victoria
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