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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 in 1839.
Beale had been Paymaster-General on the island of St. Helena for the British East India Company. He acquired land in the Greensborough area, naming it St. Helena Park, which he farmed until his death in 1865. His wife, the daughter of a Governor of St. Helena, predeceased him in 1856, and he built the Rose Chapel in her memory. The chapel was bequeathed to the Anglican Church which constructed additions to make it a functioning church. It is a tourist attraction, consisting of a traditional English parish church and graveyard, set in the Anthony Beale Reserve.
St. Helena has a secondary college and the Glen Katherine primary school, several neighbourhood reserves and elderly persons' accommodation provided by the Old Colonists' Association. The residential streets are configured so as to reduce through traffic.
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