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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 Port Phillip Bay with fever on board, probably typhus. A quarantine station was set up at Point Ormond, and a track leading inland from the Point became known as Glen Huntly Road. About 6 km. eastwards long the road the suburb of Glen Huntly was formed.

Despite the presence of public transport in the 1880s, residential development was small. The area was occupied by farmers. The Anglican St. Agnes church was opened in 1888 in Booran Road. A later church was the Congregational one (1909), the building being a weatherboard Primitive Methodist structure transported from South Melbourne. It is on the Register of the National Estate, having been acquired for Greek Orthodox worship in 1983.

In 1907 the Closer Settlement Board established the Clerk's Home Estate, but by 1909 Glen Huntly had fewer than 60 houses. It was described as a pleasant locality with charming views. In the next fifteen years housing estates were marketed and in 1914 the primary school was built. St. Anthony's church, to which a hall and school were added, was opened in 1914.

Glen Huntly is situated in the present day Caulfield South and was west of the swamp and heathlands that formed much of the Caulfield/Carnegie area. By the end of the 1920s its residential settlement and the formation of the shopping strip were complete.

The Glen Huntly Amateur Athletic Club was formed in the early 1920s and has had several members who have competed in Commonwealth and Olympic Games. Ron Clarke described it as one of the world's best local clubs. In 1929 the Glen Huntly Women's Amateur Athletic Club was formed, and it too has had several members who have competed in Commonwealth and Olympic Games. Both have trained on the Caulfield Racecourse, and on the adjoining Glen Huntly Park since 1974.

In 1933 A.V. Jennings built his first housing estate on land previously subdivided at Marara Road and Hillcrest Avenue, beside the abandoned Rosstown railway line. The estate of ten houses was a forerunner of the first fully planned Jennings estate in neighbouring Murrumbeena in the following year.

The strip shopping centre along the Glen Huntly Road tramline, either side of the railway crossing, is an active area with several buildings surviving in substantially original form. Many residential subdivisions were of generous dimensions, being approved during Caulfield council's preoccupation with town planning in the 1920s. The sites were recycled for home units and flats during the 1960s and later.

* Interesting that many publications still have the address and suburb as one word (Glenhuntly without space between Glen and Huntly). Until recently the road was spelt "Glenhuntly Road"until it was officially changed to the present spelling. We've chosen the show all references as Glen Huntly. We're sorry if it offends any local Glenhuntlians.

Glen Huntly and Glen Huntly Road were named after the emigrant ship Glen Huntly from Greenock, Scotland, which landed in Hobsons Bay in Melbourne on 17 April 1840.

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➼ www.wikipedia.org/Glen_Huntly

➼ www.wikipedia.org/Glen_Huntly_Road

❊ Also See... ❊

➼ Elsternwick, Glen Huntly Road

➼ Glen Huntly Shopping Centre






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