Chiltern is a town in Victoria, Australia, in the
northeast of the state between Wangaratta and
Wodonga, in the Shire of Indigo. At the 2006
census, Chiltern had a population of 1063. The
town is close to the Chiltern-Mount Pilot National
Park. Chiltern was once on the main road between
Melbourne and Sydney but is now bypassed by the
Hume Freeway running one kilometre to the east.
Chiltern is a small town with a large number of
historic buildings dating from the goldrush era.
Chiltern is one of those Victorian goldrush towns
which seems to have remained largely unchanged
since its glory days in the 1850s.