Location
Anakie sits between Geelong and Bacchus Marsh. It is 35km north-north-west of Geelong and 80km west of Melbourne in the foothills of the heavily wooded Brisbane Ranges.
 
Description
Anakie is a small rural village, with about 40 houses scattered around the area on various blocks and acreages. There is a typical general store selling all manner of food, goods and fuel. Other businesses include an auto repair shop and a brickworks.

There is a small primary school and the local recreation reserve is home to Anakie Football Club. On weekends, there is an influx of visitors to the area. They come to visit the nearby Brisbane Ranges National Park, the Steiglitz Historic Park (an old gold mining town) and picturesque Anakie Gorge.

Fairy Park is another of Anakie''''s attractions. It is a theme park based on fairytale characters, occupying a large site on the side of a substantial hill on the outskirts of the village.

Anakie has figured prominently in the resurgence of Geelong''''s wine industry, with one of the region''''s first new vineyards established in 1968, four kilometres north of the village.

History
It is thought the name Anakie is derived from the Aboriginal words ''''Anakie Youang'''', meaning little hill.

The area was occupied by Frederick Griffin''''s Anakie pastoral run from 1842, south of the Anakie hills. Some of Griffin''''s land on Anakie Creek was subdivided and sold in the early 1850s, becoming the site of the village.
In 1858 and 1859 Wesleyan and Catholic schools were opened.
 
In 1865 Anakie had a hotel, post office, Presbyterian church, and two schools. The State school replaced them in 1877. A Catholic church was built in 1871 and Anglican church in 1891. The Anakie and Staughton Vale mechanics'''' institute building was opened in Anakie in 1906.