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Yandoit is a small community in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.

Yandoit was First settled by the pastoralist Captain Hepburn and is located about 20 kilometres north of Daylesford, Vic. In 1854, rich alluvial gold was discovered in Nuggetty Gully and later along the tributary gullies of the Yandoit Creek. The area was rushed by an estimated 5,000 gold miners but gold quickly petered out. Deep lead mining began in 1858 and, by the late 1860s, Yandoit was supported by a mixture of farming and mining. Many Italians and Swiss-Italians settled in and around the town and built many of its surviving local stone buildings. Yandoit was surveyed in 1861 and proclaimed in 1885. Its population in 1861 was 232, but had declined to 77 by 1881.