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⊜ Abbotsford
Abbotsford, 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, the bordering suburb...
⊜ Altona
Altona 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 Woiwurrung clan. It is...
⊜ Ashburton
Ashburton 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 named Ashburton, at...
⊜ Ashwood
Ashwood, 14 km. south-east of Melbourne, is a residential suburb adjoining Ashburton and Burwood. Its name derives from its two neighbours. Ashwood's western boundary is Warrigal Road, the...
⊜ Auburn
Auburn 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 thoroughfare from...
⊜ Avonsleigh
Avonsleigh, 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 Gembrook railway...
⊜ Balaclava
Balaclava, 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, Inkerman, Raglan and...
⊜ Balwyn
I 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. THIS part of...
⊜ Balwyn North
Balwyn 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 destination after the...
⊜ Bangholme
Bangholme 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 Eumemmerring Creek...
⊜ Bayswater
Bayswater 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 German. A school was...
⊜ Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield, 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 grew up in the...
⊜ Beaconsfield Upper
Beaconsfield 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 now known as Upper...
⊜ Beaumaris
Beaumaris, 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 named his property...
⊜ Belgrave
Belgrave 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 named after a chapel...
⊜ Bend of Islands
Bend of Islands is a rural locality, 30 km north-east of Melbourne in the Shire of Nillumbik. It was gazetted in 2000 after a petition from local residents, having previously been part of...
⊜ Bentleigh
Bentleigh (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 between Centre and...
⊜ Berwick
Berwick, 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 leaseholder, Robert...
⊜ Black Rock
Black 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 Hotson Ebden in...
⊜ Blackburn
Blackburn 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 named after an early...
⊜ Blackburn North
Blackburn 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 Blackburn's. Its...
⊜ Blackburn South
Blackburn 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. The dividing line...
⊜ Boronia
Boronia 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 railway was built in...
⊜ Box Hill
Box 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 square miles...
⊜ Box Hill North
Box 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 southern boundary is...
⊜ Braeside
Braeside 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, Braeside, owned by...
⊜ Breamlea
Breamlea, 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 attracted campers...
⊜ Briar Hill
Briar 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 vegetation which...
⊜ Brighton
Brighton 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 "Special Survey"land...
⊜ 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 Creek (which runs...
⊜ Broadmeadows
Broadmeadows 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 Ponds Creeks attracted...
⊜ Brunswick
Brunswick 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 Melbourne city and Yarra...
⊜ Brunswick East
Brunswick 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 border. Brunswick...
⊜ Brunswick West
Brunswick 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. It was the last...
⊜ Bulla
Bulla 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 tributary of the...
⊜ Bulleen
Bulleen 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 River, which curves...
⊜ Bundoora
Bundoora 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 on the east by the...
⊜ Burnley
Burnley 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 boundaries are in...
⊜ Burwood
Burwood (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 from Warrigal Road...
⊜ Camberwell
Camberwell 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 country, timbered with...
⊜ Campbellfield
Campbellfield, 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 Creek. Two families...
⊜ Camperdown
Camperdown 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 its early settlers,...
⊜ Canterbury
Canterbury 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 subdivision into market...
⊜ Carlton
Carlton is a residential, commercial and educational area adjoining the northern boundary of central Melbourne at Victoria Street. Its other boundaries are Elizabeth Street/Royal Parade, Cemetery...
⊜ Carlton North
Carlton 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 General...
⊜ Carnegie
Carnegie 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 entrepreneur who...
⊜ Carrum Downs
Carrum 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 farming area until the...
⊜ Caulfield
Caulfield, 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 the name is...
⊜ Chadstone
Chadstone, a residential suburb 13 km. south-east of Melbourne, is best known for having metropolitan Melbourne's largest super-regional shopping centre. (Highpoint, Maribyrnong, is the other...
⊜ Chelsea Heights
Chelsea 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 for the new railway...
⊜ Cheltenham
Cheltenham 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 Whorral from...
⊜ Chirnside Park
Chirnside 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 Park homestead and...
⊜ Christmas Hills
Christmas 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 David Christmas became...
⊜ Clarinda
Clarinda 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. At that time the...
⊜ Clayton
Clayton 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 1850s. The first...
⊜ Clifton Hill
Clifton 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, and the northern...
⊜ Clifton Springs
Clifton 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 family which...
⊜ Cobram
Cobram, 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 pastoral station...
⊜ Coburg
Coburg, 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 east by the Moonee...
⊜ 173 - 199 Elizabeth Street, Coburg North
Melbourne'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 Dealers, Coburg...
⊜ Coburg North
Coburg 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 the last is east of...
⊜ Cockatoo
In 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 name Cockatoo Creek,...
⊜ Colbinabbin
Colbinabbin 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 1844, and was watered...
⊜ Coldstream
Coldstream 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 Coldstream nearest the...
⊜ Collingwood
Collingwood, 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 its east are...
⊜ Connewarre
Connewarre 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 the Barwon River, and...
⊜ Coode Island
Coode 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 stream for the...
⊜ Coolaroo
Coolaroo 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 thought to be derived...
⊜ Corio
Corio 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 Port Phillip Bay....
⊜ Cranbourne
Approximately 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 1836. They...
⊜ Creswick
Creswick is a former gold-mining township 20 km. north of Ballarat. It is set in undulating ranges, partly forested, which formed an extensive goldfields area that was discovered during the early...
⊜ Croxton
Croxton is a residential area in Northcote and Thornbury 7 km. north-north-east of Melbourne. It is best known for the Croxton Park Hotel in High Street, which was established in 1850-1 as the Old...
⊜ Croydon
Croydon is a residential locality 27 km. east of Melbourne, between Ringwood and Lilydale. The name came into existence in the 1880s, and was the name of the shire when the western part of Lillydale...
⊜ Croydon North
Croydon North is a residential area 27 km. east of Melbourne. It contains the smaller areas of Warranwood and Croydon Hills, which underwent residential subdivision during the 1980s and early 1990s....
⊜ Dallas
Dallas, a residential suburb in the northern part of Broadmeadows, is 17 km. north of Melbourne it was named after the Victorian Governor, Sir Dallas Brooks, who held office form 1949 to...
⊜ Dandenong
Dandenong is situated 31 kilometres south-east of the city of Melbourne. The name is thought to be a corruption of an Aboriginal word meaning lofty mountains, and referred to the ranges which...
⊜ 274 Gower Street Preston
The darebinguide is a geographic information system that allows members of the community to access maps and search for information for a range of purposes. For example, by entering an address into...
⊜ Darebin
Darebin is a residential locality 8 km. north-east of Melbourne, immediately west of Ivanhoe. It is situated on the Darebin Creek a tributary of the Yarra River with headwaters at Woodstock. The...
⊜ Dargo
Dargo is a quiet country township situated on the Dargo River, one hundred kilometres north of Sale in the Great Dividing Ranges. Dargo is thought to be either an Aboriginal word possibly meaning...
⊜ Darnum
The township of Darnum is situated on the Prince's Highway and Gippsland rail line, 110 kilometres east of Melbourne. The Moe River flats lie to the south and undulating hills to the north. The...
⊜ Diamond Creek
The Diamond Creek is a tributary of the Yarra River joining it at Eltham. The Creek's headwaters are in the Kinglake ranges, just beyond St. Andrews. Its name probably came from crystalline minerals...
⊜ Diggers Rest
Diggers rest, a small township set in rural surrounds, in on the Calder Freeway 30 km. north-west of Melbourne. Unlike several small townships on the plains north-west of Melbourne, Diggers Rest...
⊜ Corner Center Dandenong Road and Boundary Road, Dingley Village
Dingley Village (post code 3172) is a suburb 23 km south-east of Melbourne located between Springvale South and Moorabbin Airport. It was Dingley before being renamed Dingley Village in the 1991....
⊜ Dinner Plain
The ski village of Dinner Plain is situated in the Great Dividing Range, 12 kilometres south-east of Mount Hotham and 42 kilometres north-west of Omeo. The village was constructed in the late 1980s...
⊜ www.southmelbourne.com South Melbourne
South Melbourne originated in 1855 and was one of Melbourne's first shopping strips. Originally known as Emerald Hill, because the hill on which the town hall now stands was a green island surrounded...
⊜ Docklands
The 200-hectare Melbourne Docklands site has distinct precincts that are being developed progressively over time in an ever changing landscape. Melbourne Docklands is right on the city's doorstep...
⊜ Docklands
Docklands is a redevelopment site of 220 ha. of land and water (1997) at the western end of Melbourne's central business district. It is administered by the Docklands Authority under an Act of...
⊜ Doncaster
Doncaster, formerly an orchard area, is now residential and is 1.5 km east-north-east of Melbourne. Settlement a little to the west of Doncaster began with Unwin's Special Survey in Bulleen in...
⊜ Doncaster East
Doncaster East occupies a larger area than Doncaster, and together they stretch six kilometres from Bulleen to Donvale. Doncaster East is shaped like a reverse L, with the north-south part wrapping...
⊜ Donnybrook
Donnybrook is a rural area with a small residential community on the Merri Creek, 33 km. north of Melbourne. There have been two places called Donnybrook. The present one is the second, created when...
⊜ Doveton
Doveton, a suburb of Dandenong, is 32 kilometres south-east of central Melbourne. It is immediately east of Dandenong and north of the Princes Highway. The area was originally part of the Eumemmering...
⊜ Eaglehawk
Eaglehawk was a compact borough from 1862 until 7 April 1994, when it was united with several municipalities to form the City of Greater Bendigo. By then the borough had become physically joined with...
⊜ Eaglemont
Eaglemont is an elevated residential suburb 10 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is part of Ivanhoe. The name is probably derived from Mount Eagle, a Crown Grant property acquired by Thomas Walker,...
⊜ East Melbourne
East Melbourne is a residential and commercial suburb which retains a number of religious and institutional buildings on land grants made during the nineteenth century. It borders central Melbourne's...
⊜ Eden Park
Eden Park, 38 km. north of Melbourne, is 4 km. west of Whittlesea. The area was surveyed and sold between 1840 and 1854, when Ewen Robertson acquired about 400 ha. and built a twelve-roomed...
⊜ Glen Huntly Road Elsternwick
Nestled between Elwood and Caulfield, just 9kms south of Melbourne CBD, Elsternwick is the perfect place for a daytime or evening adventure, combining old-world charm with modern...
⊜ Eltham
Eltham, an increasingly residential township, is 20 km north-east of Melbourne. It was surveyed as a village in 1840, near the junction of the Diamond Creek and the Yarra River, coinciding...
⊜ Elwood
Elwood, a bayside suburb, is south of St. Kilda and 8 km. south of Melbourne. Its name is surmised to have come from the Quaker historian and poet, Thomas Elwood, a friend of the poet Milton. Lieut....
⊜ Emerald
Emerald, a township in the Dandenong Ranges, is 44 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. The name came from Emerald Creek (also known as Ti Tree Creek) which was named after a prospector Jack Emerald who...
⊜ Epping
Epping is a suburb 18 km. north of Melbourne, on the Darebin Creek. It is the terminus of a metropolitan railway line. An unnamed village reserve was surveyed in 1839 where Epping later...
⊜ Fairfield
Fairfield, a residential and industrial suburb east of Northcote, is 6 km. north-east of Melbourne. It includes a southerly portion surrounded on three sides by meanders of the Merri Creek and the...
⊜ Fawkner
Fawkner is a residential area 12 km. north of Melbourne with the Hume Highway on its west and the Merri Creek on its east. To is south is Coburg. The area was first known as Box Forest, after a...
⊜ Ferntree Gully
Ferntree Gully, originally "Fern Tree Gully"because of the scenic gully now partly in the National Park of the same name, is mostly a large suburban area 32 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. The...
⊜ Ferny Creek
Ferny Creek is a township in the Dandenong Ranges between the former Ferntree Gully National Park and the Sherbrooke Forest (now amalgamated in the Dandenong Ranges national Park), and is 33 km....
⊜ Fitzroy
Fitzroy was Melbourne's first suburb, created when the area between Melbourne and Alexandra Parade (originally named Newtown) was subdivided into vacant lots and offered for sale. Newtown was...
⊜ Fitzroy North
Fitzroy North, 4 km. north-east of Melbourne, is separated from Fitzroy (South) by Alexandra Parade. Its other boundaries adjoin Carlton North, Brunswick, Northcote and Clifton Hill. It was laid...
⊜ Flemington
Flemington is an inner residential suburb 4 km. north-west of Melbourne, situated between North Melbourne and Ascot Vale. Its eastern boundary is the Moonee Ponds Creek, with alluvial flats that were...
⊜ Flowerdale
Flowerdale is a rural district and township 65 km. north-north-east of Melbourne. It is reached by crossing the Kinglake ranges, and is about mid way between Kinglake West and Yea. Flowerdale is...
⊜ Forest Hill
Forest Hill is a residential suburb 17 km. east of Melbourne immediately south of Blackburn and Nunawading. The area was originally known as Scotchman's Hill and Mt. Pleasant in the 1860s. An...
⊜ Garden City
Garden City is a residential area 5 km. south-west of Melbourne, and immediately west of Port Melbourne. The land on which Garden City is laid out was known as Sandridge Flat, and subsequently as...
⊜ Gardenvale
Gardenvale, a residential suburb between Elsternwick and North Brighton, is 10 km south-east of Melbourne. It originated with the Garden Vale estate, a subdivision on Lempriere's Paddock (1908) in...
⊜ Geelong North
Geelong North is a residential and industrial suburb on the west side of Corio Bay. It is separated from Geelong by Geelong West. Its northern boundary, Cowies Creek, separates it from Norlane,...
⊜ Gembrook
Gembrook is 54 km. east-south-east of Melbourne and 18 km. east of Belgrave. It was the terminus of a narrow gauge railway from Belgrave, now the "Puffing Billy"scenic railway. Gembrook was first...
⊜ Gladstone Park
Gladstone Park is the eastern part of Tullamarine, 15 km. north of Melbourne. It has the Moonee Ponds Creek to its north and east. The name comes from a grazing property owned by Thomas Gladstone...
⊜ Glen Huntly
Glen Huntly is a residential suburb 11 km. south-east of Melbourne served by a railway line (1881) and a tram (1889). It is south of Caulfield. On 7 April, 1840, the ship Glen Huntly arrived in...
⊜ Glen Iris
Glen Iris is a residential suburb 10 kin. south-east of Melbourne, To its north is Camberwell and to its east is Malvern, and Glen Iris was in each of those two former municipalities. Its situation...
⊜ Glen Waverley
Glen Waverley, the terminus of a metropolitan railway line, is a residential suburb 19 km. south-east of Melbourne. The area was first named Black Flat. In 1868 when the area was occupied by...
⊜ Glenferrie
Glenferrie is a residential area 7 km. east of Melbourne, containing the main civic and retail buildings of the Hawthorn area. Glenferrie was at first called Upper Hawthorn. The main north-south...
⊜ Glenroy
Glenroy is a residential area 13 km. north of Melbourne, bounded on the west by the Moonee Ponds Creek, on the south by Pascoe Vale, on the east by Fawkner and on the north by Broadmeadows. It...
⊜ Greensborough
Greensborough is a residential suburb 17 km. north-east of Melbourne, situated on the Plenty River. The land around Greensborough is hilly, and during Port Phillip's pastoral expansion it was not...
⊜ Grovedale
Grovedale is an outer suburb of Geelong, 6 km. south-south-west of the city centre. It is named after a property of about 76 ha. acquired by Alexander Pennell in 1847, just south of Waurn Ponds...
⊜ Hamlyn Heights
Hamlyn Heights is an elevated residential area on the north-west outskirts of the Geelong urban area. It is divided form Bell Park and Bell Post Hill by the Midland Highway/Ballarat Road. (The Bell...
⊜ Harrisfield
Harrisfield, in the western part of Noble Park and adjoining the south side of the Princes Highway, is 24 km. south-east of Melbourne. It was named in 1926 after Edgar Harris, who had farmed in the...
⊜ Hartwell
Hartwell, near Camberwell is l0 km, east-south-east of Melbourne, It was named after Hartwell House (1853), built in the locality by James Irwin, and appeared as a name first in the District Roads...
⊜ Hawksburn
Hawksburn, a residential area 5 km. south-east of Melbourne, is situated between South Yarra and Prahran. It was named after Hawksburn House (situated near where the railway station was later built),...
⊜ Hawthorn
Hawthorn is a "middle-ring"residential suburb 6 km. east of Melbourne. Its surface rises immediately east of the Yarra River valley, and it has the Gardiners Creek on its south. The municipality...
⊜ Hawthorn East
Hawthorn East is a residential area 9 km. east of Melbourne between Auburn and Burke Road, Camberwell. It extends in a north-south direction from Barkers Road to Gardiner's Creek. At the southern...
⊜ Heathcote
Heathcote is situated on the Northern Highway 110 km, an easy one and a half hours drive, north of Melbourne. With a population of about 3500 it is a thriving town. Heathcote is also the gateway...
⊜ Heatherdale
Heatherdale is a small residential locality, 22 km. east of Melbourne, between Mitcham and Ringwood. It is situated on a municipal boundary between Whitehorse and Maroondah cities (formerly the...
⊜ Heatherton
Heatherton is a residential and agricultural district 20 km. south-east of Melbourne, between Moorabbin and Dingley Village. Originally named Kingston by the early settlers John and Richard King, it...
⊜ Heathmont
Heathmont is a residential suburb 24 km. east of Melbourne and 2 km. south of Ringwood. The name appears to have come from the rising land in the locality originally having heath or low shrub like...
⊜ Heidelberg
Land at Heidelberg, 14 km north-east of Melbourne, was sold by Crown auction in 1838, making it one of the earliest rural allotments. (Central Melbourne's first land sale was on 1 June, 1837). By...
⊜ Heidelberg West
Heidelberg West is a residential area 11 km. north-east of Melbourne, north of Banksia Street and on the east side of the Darebin Creek. It is relatively remote from the railway line and was...
⊜ Herne Hill
Herne Hill is a residential suburb 3 km. west-north-west of Geelong. Herne Hill was a suburb of the former Geelong West municipality, and before then was a district situated between Geelong West...
⊜ Highett
Highett is a mainly residential suburb 16 km. south-east of Melbourne between Moorabbin and Cheltenham. The name comes from Highetts road, the name of the railway station which was built when the...
⊜ Highton
Highton is a residential suburb on the south-west side of the Barwon river, 4 km. from Geelong. It was named after John Highett, Highett-town having been shortened to Highton. Highett arrived in the...
⊜ Hobsons Bay
Hobsons Bay is a municipality formed on 22 June, 1994, by the union of Altona and Williamstown cities, Laverton (part of Werribee city) and southern parts of Footscray city. It has river and maritime...
⊜ Holmesglen
Holmesglen is situated at the conjunction of Ashburton and Chadstone, and its boundaries are blurred. However, the railway station is 14 km. south-east of Melbourne, where the line crosses Warrigal...
⊜ Hoppers Crossing
Hoppers Crossing, a residential suburb immediately east of Werribee, is 25 km. west-south-west of Melbourne. Hoppers Lane runs through the Werribee animal-research institute and crosses the...
⊜ Hughesdale
Hughesdale is a residential suburb 14 km. south-east of Melbourne, positioned on the border (Poath Road) between the former Caulfield and Oakleigh cities and now Glen Eira and Monash cities....
⊜ Huntingdale
Huntingdale, formerly East Oakleigh, is a residential and industrial suburb 17 km. south-east of Melbourne, between Oakleigh and Clayton. Part of Huntingdale was occupied by the Melbourne Hunt...
⊜ Hurstbridge
Hurstbridge, once an apple growing district, is now more a residential suburb 26 km north-east of Melbourne. It is on the Diamond Creek and is the terminus of a railway line from Melbourne. Its...
⊜ Indented Head
Indented Head is a coastal township on the end of Bellarine Peninsula facing eastwards on to Port Phillip Bay. It is between Portarlington and St. Leonards, and is 43 km. south-south-west across the...
⊜ Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe is a residential suburb 9 km. north-east of Melbourne, south of Heidelberg. The land occupied by Ivanhoe was one of several portions adjoining the Warringal (later Heidelberg) village...
⊜ Jolimont
Jolimont is a residential precinct in East Melbourne, 1.5 km. from the G.P.O., Melbourne. In 1839 Charles Joseph La Trobe arrived in Melbourne as the Superintendent of Port Phillip. He brought a...
⊜ Kalorama
Kalorama, a residential area in the Mt. Dandenong Ranges, is 36 km. east of Melbourne. Situated on the Mt. Dandenong Tourist Road, it is immediately north of the Olinda State Forest. The name,...
⊜ Kangaroo Ground
Kangaroo Ground is a rural and urban locality north-east of Melbourne. The small township is 26 km from Melbourne, and the locality extends about 10 km eastwards. There is also an extensive area...
⊜ Kensington
Kensington is a residential and decreasingly industrial suburb 3 km. north-west of Melbourne. It is commonly associated with Flemington, once being in the Flemington and Kensington borough...
⊜ Keon Park
Keon Park is a residential area 14 km. north of Melbourne between Reservoir and Thomastown. The area in which Keon Park is situated comprised two allotments of Robert Hoddle's subdivision of 1838....
⊜ Kew
Kew is a residential suburb 6 km. east of Melbourne, bordered on its west and north by the Yarra River, on its south by Hawthorn and on its east by Balwyn. In 1840 John Hodgson (1799-1860) took a...
⊜ Keysborough
Keysborough is 27 km. south-east of Melbourne, south of Noble Park. It is a mixture of residential and agricultural, the latter being in south Keysborough where farmlands were formed by the draining...
⊜ Kinglake
Kinglake, comprising forest, farmland and a national park is 46 km north-east of Melbourne in the Kinglake Ranges, part of the Great Dividing Range. The area is extensive, and includes Kinglake West,...
⊜ Kingsbury
Kingsbury is a residential locality 12 km. north-north-east of Melbourne, between Reservoir and Bundoora. It was named after Private Bruce Steel Kingsbury, from Preston, who was posthumously awarded...
⊜ Knox
Knox was a shire created on 10 November, 1963, by the severance of the western part of the Fern Tree Gully shire. Knox shire's western boundary was Waverley city, and its centre point was about 25...
⊜ Knoxfield
Knoxfield is a residential and commercial/industrial suburb 27 km. east-south-east of Melbourne, lying between Scoresby and Ferntree Gully. It was named shortly after the Knox shire was formed in...
⊜ Kooyong
Kooyong is a residential locality 6 km. south-east of Melbourne on the south side of the Gardiners Creek valley. Gardiners Creek was originally named Kooyong Koot Creek by the government surveyor,...
⊜ Piper Street Kyneton
Kyneton is a thriving country town with art galleries, shops for craft, books, nurseries, gifts, food, wine and clothing providing an exciting experience to visit. Regular events include the...
⊜ Laburnum
Laburnum is a residential locality 16 km, east of Melbourne between Box Hill and Blackburn. It is named after a shrub with yellow flowers, also called "golden chain". Laburnum's early settlement...
⊜ Lalor
Lalor is a postwar residential suburb 17 km. north of Melbourne in the north of what was formerly Thomastown. In 1946 a group of ex-servicemen, mostly with links with the labour movement, formed...
⊜ Launching Place
Launching Place, a rural township with a substantial residential area, is on the route between Lilydale and Warburton. It is situated on the Yarra River, near where the river is entered by the Little...
⊜ Laverton
Laverton, a residential and industrial suburb east of Hoppers Crossing and Werribee, is 18 km. west-south-west of Melbourne. It was named after the Laverton pastoral run, settled by Alfred Langhorne...
⊜ Lilydale
The Lilydale township is 35 km. east of Melbourne, and is situated centrally in the former Lillydale shire which was amalgamated with three others to form the Yarra Ranges shire in 1994. The town is...
⊜ Melbourne
This is a list of Municipalities and their suburbs and townships in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, in the State of Victoria. Inner suburbs are subdivisions within the denser urban...
⊜ Lovely Banks
Lovely Banks is an agricultural and rural/residential area immediately north-west of the Geelong urban region. It adjoins the Geelong suburbs of Corio and Norlane. The origin of the name is...
⊜ Lower Plenty
Lower Plenty, at the junction of the Plenty and Yarra Rivers, has a small residential area and substantial open space comprising a golf club and parkland. It is 16 km north-east of...
⊜ Lysterfield
Lysterfield remains a mostly rural area 35 km. south-east of Melbourne, with Ferntree Gully to its north, Narre Warren to its south and Rowville on its west. It consists of a fertile valley along the...
⊜ Maindample
Maindample is a village and rural district on the Maroondah Highway where it passes to the north of Lake Eildon. It is about 120 km. north-east of Melbourne. Maindample is set in lightly timbered,...
⊜ Malvern
Malvern, a residential suburb8 km. south-east of Melbourne, lies between Gardiners Creek on its northand Dandenong Road on its south. It extends eastwards from Kooyong Road,Toorak, to Warrigal Road....
⊜ Malvern East
Malvern East is a residential area 10 km. south-east of Melbourne, about half the area of the former Malvern city. Its western boundary is Tooronga Road. Its postal district had Belgrave Road as its...
⊜ Mangalore
Mangalore is a rural village and district 12 km. north of Seymour in central northern Victoria. It is the junction where the northern railway line branches to Shepparton and Wodonga. In 1838,...
⊜ Manifold Heights
Manifold Heights is a suburb between Geelong West and Herne Heights, about 2 km. west-north-west of Geelong. Its western boundary is Shannon Avenue, formerly the West Melbourne Road (i.e. the...
⊜ Mansfield
Mansfield, a rural township and former shire, is 130 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is at the end of the Maroondah Highway, between Lake Eildon and Mount Buller. During the 1840s settlers...
⊜ Maribyrnong
Maribyrnong is a residential and industrial suburb enclosed on three sides by the Maribyrnong River, 6 km. north-west of Melbourne. The southern side is adjacent to Maidstone. Maribyrnong city and...
⊜ Maroondah
Maroondah is a city formed on 15 December, 1994, by the amalgamation of the former cities of Croydon and Ringwood and the district of Kilsyth South. Its western boundary adjoins Mitcham and its...
⊜ Marshall
Marshall, previously called Marshalltown, is an industrial and residential suburb 5 km. south of Geelong. Its neighbouring area is Breakwater, and was included in that area before gaining a separate...
⊜ McKinnon
McKinnon is a residential suburb 13 km. south-east of Melbourne between Ormond and Bentleigh. It was named in 1897 by the shortening of the name of the McKinnon's Road railway station (1884). The...
⊜ Meadow Heights
Meadow Heights is a residential area 18, km. north of Melbourne and 2 km. north of the Broadmeadows town centre. The east-west flight path for the Melbourne International Airport separates it from...
⊜ Melbourne
Melbourne's central city area has traditionally been defined as the "Golden Mile", which is the checker-board survey by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle, who in 1837 fixed a township of six...
⊜ Melton
Melton is a residential township 35 km. west-north-west of Melbourne on the Western Highway to Ballarat. It was characterised as a satellite town during the 1970s, and to some extent was still that...
⊜ Mentone
Mentone, a sea-side residential suburb on Port Phillip Bay, is 22 km. south-east of Melbourne. Before the formation of the township the area was known as Balcombe, after the name of the occupier of...
⊜ Menzies Creek
Menzies Creek is a rural township in the Dandenong Ranges, 42 km. south-east of Melbourne, and 5 km. east of Belgrave. It was the second station from Belgrave on the narrow gauge railway to Gembrook,...
⊜ Merri-bek
The Governor in Council has officially approved the new name* for Moreland City Council, with the change to Merri-bek published in the Victorian Government Gazette on 15 Sep 2022. Merri-bek...
⊜ Middle Park
Middle Park, between the suburbs of Albert Park and St. Kilda, is 5 km. south of Melbourne. Its southern border is the Port Philip Bay and the northern border is the Albert Park parkland. In 1857...
⊜ Mill Park
Mill Park is a residential suburb 18 km. north-east of Melbourne, immediately north of the Janefield Training Centre, Bundoora. The area is named after the Mill Park property owned by Henry...
⊜ Millgrove
Millgrove, a rural township west of Warburton, is 63 km. east of Melbourne. Although the township has had several long-standing timber mills, which could have inspired its name, it is more likely to...
⊜ Mitcham
Mitcham is a residential suburb 20 km east of Melbourne between Nunawading and Ringwood, bisected east-west by the Maroondah highway and the railway line from Box Hill to Ringwood. It was named after...
⊜ Moe
Formerly the city of Moe, this Gippsland town was amalgamated together with Morwell and Traralgon in 1995 into the LaTrobe Council. The town is bisected by the Narracon Creek and this area was...
⊜ Monbulk
Monbulk is township and farming area 40 km. east of Melbourne and eight km. south-east of Mount Dandenong. Its name derives from the Parish of Monbulk which in turn derived from the Monbulk pastoral...
⊜ Montmorency
Montmorency is a residential locality 18 km north-east of Melbourne between Greensborough and Eltham. It was named after a farm, the Montmorency estate, which was named after the French town where...
⊜ Montrose
Montrose is a suburb on the north-western foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, 32 km. east of Melbourne. Settlement of surveyed allotments occurred in the 1870s and the area was known as...
⊜ Moolap
Moolap, 5 km. east-south of Geelong, is a locality which has agricultural and industrial uses and low-density residential development. Its post code area includes Point Henry, Geelong's first place...
⊜ Moonee Valley
Moonee Valley city is a municipality north-west of Melbourne. Its point closest to Melbourne is 3 km. from Melbourne's centre, where it adjoins North Melbourne. The furthest point is 13 km. from the...
⊜ Moorabbin
Moorabbin is a residential and industrial suburb 16 km. south-east of Melbourne on the Nepean Highway about 3 km. from the coast of Port Phillip Bay. It was also a municipality between 1871 and...
⊜ Morang South
Morang South, 25 km. north of Melbourne, is on the Plenty River and is between Mill Park and Mernda. Its name derives from the Parish of Morang, which was named after an Aboriginal word thought to...
⊜ Mordialloc
Mordialloc, a bayside residential suburb, is 25 km. south-east of Melbourne. The name's antecedents are a squatting run "Moodi Yallo"(1837), a census taken in 1841 at "Moode Yallock"and Georgiana...
⊜ Moriac
Moriac is a rural township 20 km. south-west of Geelong, on the railway line to Colac. Mt. Moriac, the older of the two places, is on the Princes Highway and is about 2 km. north of Moriac. The...
⊜ Mount Dandenong
Mount Dandenong is a tourist and residential area in the Dandenong Ranges, 35 km. east of Melbourne. On its western side is Mount Dandenong (633 m.), the highest peak in the ranges, offering a clear...
⊜ Mount Evelyn
Mount Evelyn is a residential and rural suburb east of Lilydale, 37 km. east of Melbourne. The area was originally named Evelyn, after Evelyn Heales, the daughter of the Victorian Premier, Richard...
⊜ Mount Waverley
Mount Waverley is a residential area 15 km. south-east of Melbourne. Its area extends from the border between the former Oakleigh and Waverley cities eastwards to Glen Waverley. In 1853 a...
⊜ Mountain Gate
Mountain Gate is a residential locality immediately west of Ferntree Gully, where Ferntree Gully Road joins Burwood Highway, 28 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. Originally known as Ferntree Gully...
⊜ Murchison
Murchison is a small rural village on the Goulburn River just west of the Goulburn Valley Highway. The towns history is coloured with the dispossession on the local aboriginal people by Europeans;...
⊜ Narbethong
Narbethong, 65 km. north-east of Melbourne, is mid-way between Healesville and Marysville. It is on the former Yarra Track, the route from Melbourne to the Gippsland goldfields in the 1860s. In...
⊜ Nathalia
Nathalia is a rural township on the Broken Creek, about 30 km. east of where the creek joins the Murray River in northern Victoria. It is 40 km. north-west of Shepparton. The origin of the name is...
⊜ Noble Park
Noble Park, 16 km. south-east of Melbourne, is bordered by Springvale on the west and the Dandenong Creek on the east. It is mainly residential and contains Harrisfield and Yarraman. The Oakleigh...
⊜ North Melbourne
North Melbourne is a residential, commercial and industrial suburb immediately north-west of central Melbourne. It is often associated with West Melbourne (in which is situated the North Melbourne...
⊜ North Shore
North Shore is an industrial and residential suburb adjoining Corio Bay, extending northwards form Cowies Creek, Geelong North to the Shell Oil Refinery at Corio. In 1892 the North Shore area was...
⊜ High Street Northcote
Northcote is a residential and industrial suburb 8 km north-north-east of Melbourne. Until 1994 it was a municipality, bounded on the west by the Merri Creek and on the east by the Darebin Creek....
⊜ Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a residential and commercial area 18 km. south-east of Melbourne, between Mount Waverley and Clayton North. Its traditional centre is on Ferntree Gully Road. The area is more a...
⊜ Nunawading
Nunawading is a residential suburb 18 km. east of Melbourne between Box Hill and Ringwood. Nunawading was first the name of a parish bounded on the north by the Koonung Creek, on the east by the...
⊜ Oak Park
Oak Park, a residential suburb 11 km. north of Melbourne, is situated in the southern part of Glenroy. Its western border is the Moonee Ponds Creek. The name is thought to derive from a property once...
⊜ Oakleigh
Oakleigh is a residential suburb with considerable secondary industry 15 km. south-east of Melbourne, immediately beyond Caulfield and Malvern. Until 1853 the area was known as Scotchmans Creek, when...
⊜ Ocean Grove
Ocean Grove, a coastal township and beach resort on the southern side of the Bellarine Peninsula, looks out on to Bass Strait. It is 19 km. south-east of Geelong, and it situated on the east side of...
⊜ Olinda
Olinda is township, with rural and scenic areas, 37 km. east of Melbourne and at the southern foot of Mount Dandenong. The name Olinda originates from Olinda Creek, a watercourse with its...
⊜ Ormond
Ormond, a residential suburb south of the Caulfield Racecourse, is 12 km. south-east of Melbourne. It is named after Francis Ormond (1829-89), grazier and philanthropist with a strong interest in...
⊜ Oxley
Oxley is an agricultural township on the King River, 12 km. south-east of Wangaratta in north-east Victoria. It was named after the Oxley Plains. In 1824 the explorers Hume and Hovell named the...
⊜ Panton Hill
Panton Hill is a mainly rural locality 32 km. north-east of Central Melbourne. It was named after Joseph Anderson Panton, Commissioner for the Anderson's Creek and other goldfields and later...
⊜ Park Orchards
Park Orchards began as a bush-land subdivision during the 1920s and has retained that quality until the present day. It is 23 km. east-north-east of Melbourne, situated between Ringwood (to its...
⊜ Parkdale
Parkdale is a residential suburb 23 km. south-east of Melbourne, occupying parts of the Mordialloc and Mentone postcode areas. It was named after W. Parker, an early landowner in the area, and was...
⊜ Parkville
Parkville, a residential suburb in three parts with Royal Park at its centre, is 4 km. north of Melbourne. On its west is North Melbourne and on its east is Carlton. Parkville is situated on a...
⊜ Pascoe Vale
These residential areas, west of Coburg, are between 7 km. and 11 km. north of Melbourne. They are named after Pascoeville, the property owed by John Pascoe Fawkner and bounded approximately by the...
⊜ Patterson Lakes
Patterson Lakes is a residential suburb 32 km. south-east of Melbourne beside the "Patterson River", upstream from where it discharges into Port Phillip Bay at Carrum. The "Patterson River"is a...
⊜ Plenty
Plenty, a rural district north of Greensborough, is 20 km. north-east of Melbourne. The name comes from the Plenty River, which was named by Joseph Tice Gellibrand, member of the Port Phillip...
⊜ Point Lonsdale
Point Lonsdale, a seaside resort and residential area, is near the end of the Bellarine Peninsula. Its neighbouring township is Queenscliff, and it is 27 km. south-east of Geelong. Point Lonsdale...
⊜ Port Melbourne
Port Melbourne, a residential and industrial suburb, is 4 km. south-west of Melbourne. It is bounded on its north and west by the Yarra River, on the south by Hobsons Bay and on the east Bay South...
⊜ Port Melbourne
Established in 1990, the Port Melbourne Business Association (PMBA) is one of Melbourne's oldest, organised trading associations. Established to lobby council on the needs of local businesses,...
⊜ Portarlington
Portarlington, a coastal township on the north-east side of the Bellarine Peninsula, is 26 km. east of Geelong and 43 km. across Port Phillip Bay from the centre of Melbourne. The origin of the...
⊜ Prahran
Prahran, an inner suburb and a former municipality, is about 5 km. south-east of Melbourne, and was originally surveyed for farm allotments. Land sales occurred in 1840 and later in 1849-50. Although...
⊜ Preston
Preston is a residential and industrial suburb 9 km north of Melbourne. It was originally known as Irish Town and a municipality from 1885 to 1994. The area was surveyed by Robert Hoddle and...
⊜ Rainbow
Rainbow is a town situated where the Wimmera merges with the Mallee in north-western Victoria. It is 340 km. from Melbourne. The nearest large towns are Dimboola and Nhill to the south. About 12...
⊜ Research
Research is a mixed urban and rural locality 24 km. north-east of Melbourne, immediately east of Eltham.. In 1855-6 gold was found in a gully in the Research district, then known as Swipers Gully....
⊜ Reservoir
Reservoir is a residential suburb 12 km. north of Melbourne and 2 km. north of Preston. Its named derives from three reservoirs built in 1864, 1909 and 1913, north of Preston to hold the metropolitan...
⊜ Richmond
Richmond is roughly 3 km east of Melbourne and has been a residential, industrial and residential, and latterly a more residential, suburb. Its western boundary is Punt Road (Hoddle Street),...
⊜ Ringwood
Ringwood is a residential suburb 23 km. east of Melbourne, situated on the Maroondah Highway. The precursor of the Maroondah Highway was the track to the Gippsland and Upper Goulburn gold fields,...
⊜ Ringwood East
Ringwood East is a residential suburb 25 km., east of Melbourne. Its name derives from that of Ringwood. Early settlement points in Ringwood East were the Burnt Bridge Hotel on the Maroondah...
⊜ Ringwood North
Ringwood North is a residential suburb 24 km., east of Melbourne, mostly in the former Ringwood municipality but also in the former Croydon and Doncaster/Templestowe municipalities. It includes...
⊜ Rockbank
Rockbank is a small township with rural surrounds 27 km., west-north-west of Melbourne, on the Western Freeway between Melton and Deer Park. An early settler of the Rockbank district was William...
⊜ Rosanna
Rosanna is a residential suburb 12 km. north-east of Melbourne, about 2 km. beyond Heidelberg. In 1838 the land around the Warringal (Heidelberg) village was divided into nine portions of between...
⊜ Rowville
Rowville is a recent residential suburb 26 km. south-east of Melbourne. It is centered approximately on the intersection of Wellington and Stud Roads, where an electricity terminal station and the...
⊜ Roxburgh Park
Roxburgh Park is an area of 650 ha. about 20 km. north of Melbourne, between Craigieburn and Greenvale. It was in the Broadmeadows city council, now Hume city, and generally in the Merri growth...
⊜ Rubicon
Rubicon is the site of hydro-electric power generation stations and of former extensive timber harvesting operations. It is 93 km. north-east of Melbourne and 20 km. south-east of Alexandra. It is on...
⊜ Runnymede
Runnymede is a rural locality in northern Victoria 5 km. south of Elmore, near where Mt. Pleasant Creek joins the Campaspe River. It is identified only by a cemetery, a few ruins and the Runnymede...
⊜ Sandringham
Sandringham, a bayside residential suburb, is 16 km. south-south-east of Melbourne and 4 km. south of Brighton. The area was first known as Gipsy Village, from a fishing community which occupied the...
⊜ Sassafras
Sassafras, in the Dandenong Ranges between Olinda and Ferny Creek, is 35 km. east of Melbourne. It was originally called Sassafras Gully, descriptive of the damp, hilly terrain in which trees...
⊜ Scoresby
Scoresby is a suburb 25 km. south-east of Melbourne, urbanised on its eastern half and open country on its western half, adjoining the Dandenong Creek. In 1857 Scoresby and the surrounding country...
⊜ Selby
Selby is a semi-rural township 37 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. It is 2 km. east of Belgrave, and was the first station on the narrow-gauge railway to Gembrook (now the "Puffing Billy"scenic...
⊜ Seville
Seville is a township in the Yarra Ranges, 44 km. east of Melbourne, and was the third station on the former Lilydale to Warburton railway line. The first settlers in the Seville district came in...
⊜ Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke is a small township adjoining the Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenong Ranges, about 35 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. The forest was part of a timber reserve, most of which was excised...
⊜ Silvan
Silvan is a rural township 42 km. east of Melbourne on the eastern side of the Dandenong Ranges. The area was originally South Wandin Yallock (which is briefly discussed under Wandin). In 1876 a...
⊜ South Melbourne
South Melbourne, between the south bank of the Yarra River and Port Phillip Bay, originated at the elevated area first known as Emerald Hill, 2 km. south of Melbourne. Emerald Hill, an old...
⊜ South Yarra
South Yarra is a residential suburb extending from St. Kilda Road to Williams Road, Toorak, bordered on the north by the Domain, the Botanic Gardens and the Yarra River, and on the south by...
⊜ Southbank
Southbank, on the south side of the Yarra River opposite Melbourne's central city area, was first defined as an area for redevelopment by the State Government in 1984. Two years later the Government...
⊜ Springhurst
Springhurst is a rural township in north-eastern Victoria, situated on the Hume Freeway at its junction with the road to Wahgunyah. It is also the junction of the railway lines from Melbourne to...
⊜ Springvale
Situated in the south-east of metropolitan Melbourne near Dandenong, Springvale is on the Princes Highway, 23 km. from Melbourne. Until 1994 Springvale was also a municipal city. The name...
⊜ Springvale South
Springvale South, between Springvale and Keysborough, was subdivided for housing during the early postwar grid pattern of Springvale and the later pattern found throughout Keysborough which protects...
⊜ St Andrews
St. Andrews is a rural locality 36 km. north-east of Melbourne, between Kangaroo Ground and Kinglake. It was originally named Queenstown, a goldfield, in the area known as the Caledonia Diggings. By...
⊜ St Helena
Between Greensborough and Diamond Creek is the residential locality of St. Helena, 21 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is named after a church built by Major Anthony Beale, who arrived in Port Phillip...
⊜ St Kilda
St. Kilda is a residential suburb on Port Phillip Bay, 6 km. south-east of Melbourne. During 1841-42 a cargo yacht "Lady of St. Kilda"was anchored in the bay, having been placed there for sale or...
⊜ St Kilda East
St. Kilda East extends form Chapel Street, St. Kilda, to Caulfield, and is 6 km. south-east of Melbourne. Along its northern edge is the Dandenong Road tram (1928) and another east-west tram (1913)...
⊜ St Leonards
St. Leonards is a coastal township on the end of the Bellarine Peninsula facing eastwards on to Port Phillip Bay. It is 46 km. south-south-west across the bay from Melbourne and 30 km. east of...
⊜ Stanhope
Stanhope is a rural township and district in the west Goulburn Valley irrigation area in northern Victoria. It is 16 km. south-west of Kyabram. Stanhope was the name of one of several pastoral...
⊜ Strathbogie
Strathbogie is a rural village and locality 18 km. south-east of Euroa. It is situated at the northern foot of the Strathbogie Ranges which are about 125 km. north-east of Melbourne. Strathbogie is...
⊜ Mywee-Bearii Road Strathmerton
Strathmerton is a rural township district in northern Victoria, 20 km. north of Numurkah and extending to the Murray River. It is the junction of railway lines which branch to Cobram and Tocumwal,...
⊜ Studfield
Studfield is a residential locality in Wantirna, immediately north of the Knox City shopping centre, Burwood Highway. It is 25 km. east-south-east of Melbourne, and adjoins Stud Road - hence the...
⊜ Sunbury
Sunbury is a residential "satellite"township 35 km. north-west of Melbourne, east of the Calder Highway. It is situated on Jacksons Creek, which enters the Maribyrnong River at Sydenham. Two minor...
⊜ Surrey Hills
Surrey Hills is a residential suburb 12 km. east of Melbourne, between Camberwell and Box Hill. Surrey Hills was in each of those former municipalities and remains divided between the amalgamated...
⊜ Tallarook
Tallarook is a rural township and district in central northern Victoria, 10 km. south of Seymour. It is on the railway line from Melbourne and on the Hume Freeway, which pass between hilly ranges...
⊜ Tatura
Tatura is a rural township in northern Victoria, 17 km. east-south-east of Shepparton in the western Goulburn Valley. The name is thought to be derived from an Aboriginal word meaning a lagoon with...
⊜ Tecoma
Tecoma is a residential suburb in hilly surrounds 35 km. east-south-east of Melbourne and one km. west of Belgrave. Until 1925 Tecoma did not have a separate identity, being known as part of Upper...
⊜ The Basin
The Basin is a rural and residential suburb 31 km. east of Melbourne in the western foothills of the Dandenong Ranges National Park. Several tributaries of the Dandenong Creek pass through The...
⊜ The Patch
The Patch is a mainly rural locality, 40 km. east-south-east of Melbourne, next to the east side of the Sherbrooke Forest. In the 1860s a timber-getter felled a stand of black-butts for palings,...
⊜ Thomastown
Thomastown is a residential and industrial suburb 15 km. north of Melbourne, with a station on the railway line to Epping. Unlike the land further west which is littered with basalt, Thomastown has...
⊜ Thornton
Thornton, a township in an agricultural district, is 93 km. north-east of Melbourne and between Alexandra and Eildon. It is situated on good river-front land where the Goulburn River and the Goulburn...
⊜ Toolern Vale
Toolern Vale is an agricultural and pastoral locality 40 km. north-west of Melbourne and 9 km. north of Melton. It is on the Toolern Creek, which flows southwards through Melton before joining the...
⊜ Toorak
Toorak is a residential area 5 km. south-east of Melbourne. Its social boundaries have been precisely fixed by its postal district boundaries (SE2 and 3142), which are Williams Road, Malvern Road,...
⊜ Torquay
Torquay is a township facing Bass Strait, 21 km. south of Geelong (i.e. across the Bellarine Peninsula from Geelong). It is bordered on the west by Spring Creek and its coastal features include Point...
⊜ Tullamarine
Tullamarine's residential area is contained in a circular loop of the Moonee Ponds Creek, and its western boundary is the Melbourne Airport, originally called the Tullamarine Airport. Tullamarine...
⊜ Tungamah
Tungamah is a rural town north-north-east of Melbourne, approximately 29 km. from Yarrawonga and the Murray River. It is situated on slightly undulating land which is surrounded by almost treeless...
⊜ Undera
Undera is a rural village and locality in northern Victoria, in the Goulburn Valley irrigation area. It is 20 km. north-west of Shepparton. In 1874, when the area came under farm-selection...
⊜ Upfield
Upfield is a residential and industrial locality 17 km. north of Melbourne, situated in Campbellfield. The name is descriptive of the area's open country. In 1956 the Ford motor car factory was...
⊜ Upwey
Upwey is a residential suburb in hilly surrounds 34 km. east-south-east of Melbourne and 2 km. west of Belgrave. Until the turn of the century Upwey did not have a separate identity. In the middle...
⊜ Vermont
Vermont is a residential suburb 21 km. east of Melbourne, south of Mitcham and the Maroondah Highway and railway line Ringwood. The name seems to have been bestowed either by derivation from Limerick...
⊜ Vermont South
Vermont South is 20 km. east of Melbourne. It is a residential area either side of the Burwood Highway, with Burwood East on its western border and the Dandenong Creek/Wantirna as its eastern...
⊜ Viewbank
Viewbank is a residential suburb 15 km. north-east of Melbourne, and east of Rosanna. Its name comes from the property and residence Viewbank, owned by Dr. Robert Martin who came to the Heidelberg...
⊜ Wahgunyah
Wahgunyah, on the south-east side of the Murray River, is 235 km. north-east of Melbourne. The nearest medium-size town to it is Rutherglen, about 8 km. to the south-east. The name came from the...
⊜ Wallington
Wallington is a rural town on the Bellarine Peninsula, roughly 4 km east-south-east of Geelong. Landholder, Fairfax Fenwick, subdivided part of his property in 1853, and named the subdivision...
⊜ Wandin
Wandin is a rural town 42 km. east of Melbourne and 8 km. beyond Lilydale. There are adjoining agricultural districts of Wandin North and (eastwards) Wandin Yallock. The name is first recorded in...
⊜ Wantirna
Wantirna is a residential locality 23 km. east of Melbourne, a few kilometres west of Bayswater. It is neither on a railway line nor on a radiating main road from Melbourne, and consequently...
⊜ Warburton
Warburton is a town on the Yarra River 60 km. east of Melbourne, surrounded by foothills of the Great Dividing Range. In late 1859 gold was discovered in the Warburton area, at Britannia Creek...
⊜ Warrandyte
Warrandyte and the surrounding suburbs of Wonga Park and Park Orchards are located approximately 35 kilometres North East of the city of Melbourne. The original township is on the south side of...
⊜ Warrenbayne
Warrenbayne is a rural township and locality 18 km. south-west of Benalla. Its name is believed to have been formed form Messrs. Warren and Bayne, early pastoral settlers who occupied a station...
⊜ Watsonia
Watsonia, a residential suburb south-west of Greensborough, is 15 km. north-east of Melbourne. Whilst Greensborough has the sub-regional shopping centre, Watsonia has several State schools which...
⊜ Wattle Glen
Wattle Glen, a mostly rural locality on the Diamond Creek, is 25 km. north-east of Melbourne, between Diamond Creek and Hurstbridge. Its name arose from the wattle trees which are still profuse in...
⊜ Waurn Ponds
Waurn Ponds is a rural/residential and University area 9 km. south-west of Geelong. It is named after the Waurn Chain of Ponds, a watercourse which flows from the region of Mt. Moriac to the Barwon...
⊜ Werribee
Werribee, about 27 km south-west of Melbourne, is midway on the Princes Highway to Geelong. It is situated on the Werribee River, which has its headwaters north of Ballan. Early pastoral...
⊜ Werribee South
Werribee South is a rural area on alluvial land at the southern end of the Werribee River where it enters Port Phillip Bay. It is situated on the east side of the river and extends further eastwards...
⊜ Wesburn
Wesburn, a rural township between Yarra Junction and Warburton, is 62 km. east of Melbourne. In 1894, after passing the Village Settlement Act two years before, the State Government subdivided 325...
⊜ West Melbourne
West Melbourne, an industrial, commercial and residential suburb, adjoins the north-west corner of Melbourne's central business area. The Flagstaff Gardens and the Queen Victoria Market are included...
⊜ Western Gardens
Western Gardens is a residential suburb between Laverton and Hoppers Crossing, 21 km. west-south-west of Melbourne. Its northern boundary is the Princes Freeway and its southern boundary is the Point...
⊜ Westgarth
Westgarth is a residential suburb where the tram and train services cross the Merri Creek, south of Northcote, 5 km. north-east of Melbourne. Land sales occurred in Northcote in 1840, but the land...
⊜ Westmeadows
Westmeadows contains the original Broadmeadows village on the Moonee Ponds Creek, but is now west of the present Broadmeadows. It is north of Tullamarine/Gladstone Park, and is 17 km. north of...
⊜ Wheelers Hill
Wheelers Hill, between Glen Waverley and Scoresby, is a residential area 22 km. south-east of Melbourne. Its origin was a farm taken by a John Wheeler near Ferntree Gully Road, extending eastwards to...
⊜ Whitfield
Whitfield, an agricultural township in the King River valley in north-east Victoria, is 47 km. south of Wangaratta and 170 km. from Melbourne. The township is immediately west of the flood-prone King...
⊜ Whittington
Whittington is a residential suburb 4 km. south-east of Geelong. The name appears to have been adopted early in the 1920s, in honour of an early land owner, James Whittington. Originally the...
⊜ Whittlesea
Whittlesea is a township with surrounding rural area 36 km. north-north-east of Melbourne on the Plenty River. It was also a municipality extending southwards to Preston in metropolitan...
⊜ Whorouly
Whorouly is a rural township in north-east Victoria. It is on the Ovens River, between Wangaratta and Myrtleford, and is about 230 km. from Melbourne. Whorouly is situated in a basin with forested...
⊜ Williamstown
The village suburb of Williamstown, just a 15-minute drive from the Melbourne CBD, is a heritage area that boasts of a charming seaport, vibrant maritime history, remarkable architecture and some of...
⊜ Windsor
Windsor, a residential suburb south of Prahran, is 5 km. south-south-east of Melbourne. It is bounded by High Street, Punt Road, Wellington Street/Dandenong Road and (notionally) Williams Road on its...
⊜ Winton
Winton is a rural village and locality on the route between Melbourne and Albury. It is between Benalla and Glenrowan, and is situated on Seven Mile Creek which crosses the Hume Highway and enters...
⊜ Wonga Park
Wonga Park is a rural town and urban locality 29 km. east-north-east of Melbourne, between the southern bank of the Yarra River and Croydon North. The name comes for the Wonga Park grazing property,...
⊜ Woods Point
Woods Point is a tourist and former gold-mining township in the Great Dividing Range, 120 km. east-north-east of Melbourne, and a considerably longer distance by road. It is situated at the extreme...
⊜ Woodstock
Woodstock is a rural locality 30 km. north of Melbourne on the road from Epping. The developing towns of Cragieburn and Whittlesea lie west and east respectively of the rural corridor occupied by...
⊜ Woori Yallock
Woori Yallock is a rural township 50 km. east of Melbourne on the road between Lilydale and Warburton. The township is two kilometres from the Woori Yallock Creek which rises from the south in the...
⊜ Wyndham Vale
Wyndham Vale, a residential suburb immediately west of Werribee, is 30 km. west-south-west of Melbourne. Its name is derived form the Werribee district's original name, Wyndham shire. Wyndham...
⊜ Yallambie
Yallambie consists of a large Army Barracks and residential areas 16 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is part of the Macleod post code area. The name is derived form an Aboriginal word "nglambi",...
⊜ South Wharf Drive Docklands
Yarra's Edge is a thriving waterfront precinct on the south side of the Yarra River between South Wharf precinct and the West Gate Bridge. Yarra's Edge includes: Marina Precinct, Park Precinct,...
⊜ Yarrambat
Yarrambat is a rural district 24 km. north-north-east of Melbourne, east of Morang South and the Plenty river. To its east is Hurstbridge. The area was first settled in 1840 and farm selections...
⊜ Yarraville
The very cool suburb Yarraville is only four kilometres from Melbourne's CBD. It is lined with refurbished 19th Century buildings and quaint neighbourhood cafe's, award-winning restaurants and...
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