Violet Town is a town in northeastern Victoria, Australia.  The town is in the Shire of Strathbogie local government area, 174 kilometres (108 mi) northeast of the state capital, Melbourne on the Hume Highway.  At the 2016 census, Violet Town and district (Honeysuckle Ward) had a population of 1,540.The town is on Honeysuckle Creek and has many early streets named after flowers, e.g. Lily Street, Rose Street, Orchid Street, Tulip Street, and Iris Lane.Violet Town and District is bounded by Arcadia-Tamleugh Road, Clancy Road, Honeysuckle Creek, Fishers Lane, Bridge Road, Camerons Road, Croxfords Road, Dookie-Violet Town Road and the Broken River in the north, Benalla Rural City, Leggat Lane, Baddaginnie-Goomalibee Road, Depot Road, McPherson Road, McEwan Lane and Benalla Rural City in the east, the localities of Strathbogie, Kelvin View and Euroa, Collier Road and Lawrence Road in the south, and Moglonemby Road, Murchison-Violet Town Road and Violet Town Boundary Road in the west.

 Violet Town is the administrative centre of the Shire of Strathbogie.The town was named after Violet Creek, which runs through it and was in turn named by surveyor Robert Hoddle for his wife's name. The Post Office opened on 1 January 1853 as Violet Town and closed in 1993; it reopened later that year under its current name.
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