Location
Fyansford lies on both sides of the junction of the Moorabool and Barwon rivers, within a picturesque valley, 5km west of Geelong City.

Description
Industry has continued to be Fyansford's hallmark, with a quarry, pre-mix and concrete supplies, and a waste-disposal depot. Geelong Cement still operates on the Moorabool River. The few residents of Fyansford and visitors enjoy the Balmoral Art Gallery which is located in the original Balmoral Hotel, opened in 1854. Parkland around the fork of the rivers includes canoe slalom rapids.

History
The Wathaurong clan of this region called the area 'Bukar-Bulok', which means the middle, or place between, two rivers. The area became the site of the south-west Victorian Protectorate Station for Aborigines. Fyansford was also one of the earliest white settlements in the Geelong region. It was named after Captain Foster Fyans who came to Geelong as police magistrate in October, 1837. Fyans established his police camp near where the Barwon River could be forded. In 1843, the Fyanstown (later Swan) Inn was built. The hotel, several old factory buildings and the current bridge, built in 1903, are all on the Register of the National Estate. The bridge, now unused, is significant as the second-oldest reinforced concrete bridge in Victoria. Fyansford was on one of the two routes between Geelong and Ballarat and this guaranteed traffic through the district. The valleys around Fyansford were mostly occupied by orchards, vineyards and other horticulture. But in the late 1800s, first an orphan asylum, and then industries that required good water, moved into the area. A paper mill (1876) used the 1844 flour mill's water race. The Geelong Cement Works opened in 1889.