RichmondLocated only five kilometres from the city’s CBD, Richmond is a precinct with strong multicultural influences. Named after Richmond Hill in London, this is the Mecca for retail sho .. |
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Abbotsford 3067Abbotsford, a residential and industrial suburb, is in the eat of Collingwood, between Hoddle Street and the Yarra River. It was named after a property owned by John Orr in Kew, th .. |
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Altona 3018Altona has a long history as one of the first suburbs of Melbourne. Prior to arrival of Europeans, the Altona area was home to Kurung-Jang-Balluk Aboriginal people, of the Woiwurr .. |
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Ashburton 3147Ashburton is a mostly postwar residential suburb located 11 km. south east of Melbourne. The locality's name arose when the station on the Outer Circle railway line (1890} was name .. |
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Ashwood 3147Ashwood, 14 km. south-east of Melbourne, is a residential suburb adjoining Ashburton and Burwood. Its name derives from its two neighbours.
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Auburn 3123Auburn is a residential area 8 km. east of Melbourne, situated in the Hawthorn area. It has a railway station with an adjacent shopping centre, near what was the main outgoing thor .. |
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Avonsleigh 3782Avonsleigh, first known as East Emerald, is 46 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. Its name arose from Avonsleigh guest house, close to the Wright stopping place on the Belgrave to G .. |
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Balaclava 3183Balaclava, part of St. Kilda East, is 7 km. south-east of Melbourne. It was named after the battlefield in the Crimean War (1853-6), and has street names such as Nightingale, Inker .. |
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Balwyn 3103I grew up in and around Balwyn, even played footy for the mighty Balwyn Tigers and its easy to see why it draws families to the area, as described by Kerrie O'Brien in The Age.
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Balwyn North 3104Balwyn North, larger in area than Balwyn and Deepdene together, is predominantly postwar in its residential growth. In 1941 Balwyn North was described as the next housing-site dest .. |
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Bangholme 3175Bangholme is situated on the former Carrum Swamp between Keysborough and Chelsea Heights, roughly 30km south-east of Melbourne.
The name Bangholme comes from a waterhole on the .. |
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Bayswater 3153Bayswater is a residential and industrial suburb 28 km. east of Melbourne.
The area was originally part of Scoresby North and settlement began in the 1860s. Many settlers were G .. |
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Beaconsfield 3807Beaconsfield, forty six kilometres east of central Melbourne on Cardinia Creek, was originally known as Little Berwick. It is immediately to the east of Berwick. A small settlement .. |
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Beaconsfield Upper 3808Beaconsfield Upper is 45 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district in the Shire of Cardinia.
Gold prospectors were the first residents of the forested foothills n .. |
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Beaumaris 3193Beaumaris, a bayside residential suburb, is 20 km. south-east of Melbourne.
In 1845 James Moysey leased grazing land in the area and shortly afterwards purchased 32 hectares. He .. |
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Belgrave 3160Belgrave is 35 km east from Melbourne's central business district in the Shire of Yarra Ranges includes Belgrave Heights and Belgrave South.
Belgrave first settled in 1851 was n .. |
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Bentleigh 3204Bentleigh (3204) including Bentleigh East (3165) is a residential suburb 12 km. south-east of Melbourne, immediately to the north of Moorabbin. It is relatively compact, lying betw .. |
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Berwick 3806Berwick, once a small agricultural town, now an outer suburb, is located 43 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The area was part of Cardinia Creek run and was named by an early le .. |
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Black Rock 3193Black Rock, a bayside suburb between Sandringham and Beaumaris, is 18 km. south-south-east of Melbourne. It was named after Black Rock House, a grand residence built by Charles Hot .. |
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Blackburn 3130Blackburn is a residential suburb 17 km. east of Melbourne, between Box Hill and Nunawading. About 400 metres south of the township is the Blackburn Creek, thought to have been nam .. |
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Blackburn North 3130Blackburn North is a residential area 17 km, east of Melbourne extending from Blackburn to the Koonung Creek.
The rural background to Blackburn North was much like that of Black .. |
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Blackburn South 3130Blackburn South, a residential suburb 17 km, east of Melbourne, is bounded by Middleborough Road on the west and Forest Hill on the east. Its southern border abuts Burwood East. Th .. |
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Boronia 3155Boronia is a residential suburb 29 km. east of Melbourne near Ferntree Gully.
Land selections began in the Boronia area in the 1870s, and the Ringwood to Upper Ferntree Gully ra .. |
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Box Hill 3128Box Hill, a residential area 14 km. east of Melbourne, is between Camberwell and Blackburn. About one-third of the western part of Box Hill was in Henry Elgar's Special Survey of 8 .. |
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Box Hill North 3129Box Hill North, 14 km. east of Melbourne, is bordered by the Koonung Koonung Creek on the north, and stretches east-west across the whole of the former Box Hill municipality. Its s .. |
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Braeside 3195Braeside is a predominantly industrial suburb with a metropolitan park, 26 km. south-east of Melbourne and immediately east of Mordialloc. The name came from a farm property, Braes .. |
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Breamlea 3227Breamlea, on the estuary of Thompsons Creek which enters Bass Strait west of Barwon Heads, is about 28 km. south of Geelong.
Thompsons Creek was also known as Bream Creek, and a .. |
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Briar Hill 3088Briar Hill, 18 km. north-east of Melbourne, is a residential and light industrial area bout a kilometre east of Greensborough. Its name possibly derives from the type of tangled ve .. |
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Brighton 3186Brighton is a residential bayside suburb 11 km. south-east of Melbourne.
In 1840 the British Government's Land and Emigration Commission approved procedures for the sale of "Spe .. |
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Brighton East Brighton East is a residential suburb 13 km south-east of Melbourne. It is east of Hampton Street and between North and South Roads. Its northern section is crossed by the Elster C .. |
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Broadmeadows 3047Broadmeadows is a residential and industrial suburb 16 km. north of Melbourne and until 1994 it was a municipality.
The lightly wooded landscape between the Merri and Moonee Pon .. |
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Brunswick 3056Brunswick is an inner-urban suburb 6 km. north of Melbourne. It is bounded on the west and the east by the Moonee Ponds and Merri Creeks respectively. On its south it adjoins Melbo .. |
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Brunswick East 3057Brunswick East is an inner-urban suburb 6 km north of Melbourne. It lies between Lygon Street and the Merri Creek, and adjoins Carlton North and Fitzroy North at its southern borde .. |
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Brunswick West 3055Brunswick West is a residential suburb 6 km. north of Melbourne. It lies between the Moonee Ponds Creek and central Brunswick with the Royal Park lands at its southern border.
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Bulla 3428Bulla is a township with rural surrounds, immediately north-west of the Melbourne Airport, Tullamarine, and 25 km. north-west of Melbourne. The township is on Deep Creek, a tributa .. |
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Bulleen 3105Bulleen is 12 km north-east from Melbourne CBD in the City of Manningham. At the 2011 Census, Bulleen had a population of 10,868.
Bulleen adjoins the eastern side of the Yarra R .. |
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Bundoora 3083Bundoora is an extensive suburb comprising residential, community-service and educational areas 15 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is bordered on the west by the Darebin Creek and .. |
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Burnley Richmond 3121 | HistoryBurnley is a residential suburb in the southern and eastern parts of Richmond, 4 km. east-south-east of Melbourne.
Bounded on the south and east by the Yarra River, the other b .. |
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Burwood 3125Burwood (3125) and Burwood East (3151) extend eastwards from Melbourne, beginning at a distance of about 11 km. from Melbourne's centre and ending 17 km. from the centre, roughly f .. |
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Camberwell 3124Camberwell is a residential suburb 9 km east of Melbourne, between Hawthorn and Burwood.
Until the 1850s the area was occupied for grazing, being described as "light sandy count .. |
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Campbellfield 3061Campbellfield, a residential and industrial suburb 17 km. north of Melbourne, is situated east of Broadmeadows. It is on the Hume highway and its eastern boundary is the Merri Cree .. |
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Camperdown 3260Camperdown is a rural township on the Western District volcanic plains of Victoria. It is 40 km. west of Colac and 165 km west-south-west of Melbourne.
Camperdown is famed for i .. |
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Canterbury 3126Canterbury is an older residential suburb 10 km. east of Melbourne, noted for spacious residences. It adjoins Camberwell on its east and north , and its early settlement and subdiv .. |
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Carlton 3053Carlton is a residential, commercial and educational area adjoining the northern boundary of central Melbourne at Victoria Street. Its other boundaries are Elizabeth Street/Royal P .. |
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Carlton North 3054Carlton North is a residential suburb 4 km. north of Melbourne. Its southern boundary is Princes Street/Cemetery Road. On its west is Princes Park, next to which is the Melbourne G .. |
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Carnegie 3163Carnegie is a residential suburb 12 km. south-east of Melbourne on the railway line between Caulfield and Oakleigh. The area was originally known as Rosstown after William Ross, an .. |
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Carrum Downs 3201Carrum Downs is a residential area 34 km. south-east of Melbourne adjoining the bayside suburb of Carrum Most of the area is on the former Carrum Swamp.
Carrum Downs was a farm .. |
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Caulfield 3162Caulfield, a residential area with a prominent metropolitan racecourse, is on Dandenong Road, 10 km. from Melbourne. Until 1994 Caulfield was also a municipal city. The origin of t .. |
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Chadstone 3148Chadstone, a residential suburb 13 km. south-east of Melbourne, is best known for having metropolitan Melbourne's largest super-regional shopping centre. (Highpoint, Maribyrnong, i .. |
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Chelsea HeightsChelsea Heights is a residential suburb 30 km. south-east of Melbourne, inland from and adjoining the bayside suburb of Chelsea. The name Chelsea was proposed by a local resident f .. |
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Cheltenham 3192Cheltenham is a residential suburb 18 km. south-east of Melbourne adjoining the bayside suburbs of Beaumaris and Mentone. Its name came from the Cheltenham Inn, opened by Charles W .. |
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Chirnside Park 3116Chirnside Park, formerly West Lilydale or a part of Mooroolbark, is a suburb 33 km. east of Melbourne.
The original settlement of Chirnside Park was centred on the Mooroolbark P .. |
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Christmas Hills 3775Christmas Hills is a rural locality 37 km north-east of central Melbourne, between Kangaroo Ground and Yarra Glen..
It was occupied for grazing by 1842 and a shepherd named Davi .. |
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Clarinda 3169Clarinda is a residential locality in Clayton South, 17 km. south-east of Melbourne. As a locality Clarinda predates Clayton South, a Presbyterian church being opened there in 1886 .. |
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Clayton 3168Clayton is a residential and industrial suburb 18 km. south-east of Melbourne on the Oakleigh to Dandenong railway line.
The area was first occupied for farming purposes in the .. |
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Clifton Hill 3068Clifton Hill is a residential suburb 4 km north-east of Melbourne, separated from Collingwood by Alexandra Parade and the Eastern Freeway. Its eastern boundary is the Merri Creek, .. |
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Clifton Springs 3222Clifton Springs is a coastal residential township on the northern side of the Bellarine Peninsula, 18 km. east of Geelong.
An early land owner was Thomas Bates, a member of the .. |
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Cobram 3643Cobram, a rural township in northern Victoria, is on the Murray River, north of Shepparton. It is situated in the Murray Goulburn irrigation district.
Cobram was the name of a p .. |
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Coburg 3058Coburg, a residential suburb 8 km. north of Melbourne, was also a municipality from 1874 to 1994. The municipality was bordered on the south by Brunswick city and on the west and e .. |
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Coburg Hill 3058Melbourne's newest suburb, Coburg Hill will have around 400 new homes built on the former Kodak site in Coburg in Melbourne's north.
Finally, one of Melbourne's oldest Antique .. |
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Coburg North 3058Coburg North, a residential area 10 km. north of Melbourne, contains the localities of Batman, Merlynston and Newlands. The first two are on the Coburg to Fawkner railway line and .. |
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Cockatoo 3781In the steep foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, 48 kilometres east of central Melbourne, lies the township of Cockatoo. In the 1850s, prospectors searching for gold bestowed the na .. |
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Colbinabbin 3559Colbinabbin is a rural district with a small township in northern Victoria between Rushworth and Elmore.
Colbinabbin was one of four pastoral runs taken up by Edward Curr in 184 .. |
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Coldstream 3770Coldstream is a mainly rural area, but with a growing residential component, 36 km. east of Melbourne, extending northwards from Lilydale to the Yarra River.
The part of Coldst .. |
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Collingwood 3066Collingwood, an industrial and residential suburb, is 3 km. north-east of Melbourne. Its western boundary is Smith Street, Fitzroy, and its southern boundary is Victoria Parade. On .. |
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Connewarre 3227Connewarre is a rural locality, 3 km. south-west of Lake Connewarre on the Bellarine Peninsula, and 12 km. south of Geelong.
Lake Connewarre and its associated marshes are on th .. |
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Coode Island 3003Coode Island, an almost uninhabited industrial area, is 4 km. west of Melbourne.
It was formed in 1886 when canal was cut through the Sandridge swamp to provide a straightened .. |
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Coolaroo 3048Coolaroo is a residential and industrial suburb 18 km. north of Melbourne, west of the Ford motor car factory, Hume Highway, and between Broadmeadows and Somerton. The name is thou .. |
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Corio 3214Corio is a residential and industrial suburb in the Geelong region, 9 km. north of Geelong and 56 km. south-west of Melbourne. It adjoins Corio Bay, which is on the western side of .. |
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Cranbourne 3977Approximately forty six kilometres south-east of Melbourne lies the rapidly growing town of Cranbourne. The earliest settlers were the Ruffy brothers who squatted on Mayune run in .. |
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