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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 "Money"Miller (1809-1888). He bred racehorses and conducted a range of dairy and grazing activities, sufficient to occupy 65 persons housed in a village on the property. The Findon Hounds and the Findon Harriers Hunt Club - a name connected with Miller's residence - Findon in Kew, were at Mill Park.

The Mill Park property specialised in horse breeding into the next century and the Findon Harriers continued there until 1930. Mill Park's rural landscape was largely unaltered until the 1960s, apart from the opening of a quarry in 1964. Following on from residential development in Bundoora, subdivisions occurred in the 1970s and a kindergarten, pre-school centre and shopping complex were built by the end of the decade. The shopping centre has several historic place names: The "Stables Shopping Centre"and Redleap Avenue commemorate the solidly built Redleap racing stables on the Miller property and the Plough Hotel commemorates the Plough Inn which formed a nucleus village in the Mill Park area during the 1850s.

During the 1980s Mill Park underwent rapid residential development, with State and church primary schools, a State secondary college and recreational facilities. The RMIT Bundoora East Campus is inside Mill Park's border, and the Bundoora West campus just outside. All of the subdivisions are configured to reduce through traffic in residential areas. There are several neighbourhood reserves, and three large ones in the west of Mill Park. A freeway reservation runs north-south, parallel to Mill Park's western boundary along Darebin Creek. The east of Mill Park extends to pollution-control wetlands which border the Plenty River. The extreme north boundary is the discontinued railway from Epping to Yan Yean.

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