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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 Warranwood.

During the 1960s Ringwood North was shown in directories as being north of Oban Road. By the 1990s it had been enlarged southwards to Loughnan and Wonga Roads, occupying an area as large as Ringwood.

Ringwood North kept its rural landscape for longer than Ringwood. Its first primary school was opened in 1923, and its second (Norwood) was opened in 1956. Within nine years two more were opened (Mullum, 1963 and Ringwood Heights, 1965). The Norwood high school was opened in 1959, and Parkwood high school about twenty years later.

Ringwood North's township was at the corner of Oban and Warrandyte Roads, about 500 meters east of the school. (which school?) In 1950 there were six or so shops, with the grocer's on the corner. Forty year later there was a modern neighbourhood centre, with a supermarket in place of the grocer. The supermarket's proprietor was a second-generation grocer who had moved from Richmond to Balwyn to Ringwood North, following metropolitan expansion. The business had been self-service since a remarkably early 1948.

The urbanisation of Ringwood North began in the early 1960s and by the mid 1990s was nearly complete at the northern border. This is a comparatively long time for a postwar suburb, perhaps best exampled by the closure of the Norwood primary school at about the time the Warranwood primary school was opened (1995). The cycle of development and closure was echoed in the building of a bowling club on the school site, as the community became middle aged, although the move was also prompted by the bowling club disposing of its previous site next to the Eastland shopping centre in Ringwood.

Ringwood North has several reserves. The historic Quambie reserve was the home of A.T. Miles Quambie orchard (mainly quinces). The Miles family members were leading figures in Ringwood's public and social life.

The Yarra Valley Anglican Co-ed. school was established in 1966, followed shortly by the Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School in Warranwood Luther College is nearby in Croydon.

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