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 Fishermens Bend. When the Coode Canal was constructed in 1884-6 to both improve cargo ship access to the docks and to increase the stream velocity for upstream flood mitigation, the excavated silt was used for land reclamation. Much of the surrounding land was marshy river delta. In 1912 the Port Melbourne Council lobbied the State Government for housing sites to be allowed on the reclaimed land, but the Harbor Trust asserted its claim over the land which was in Trust territory. Prevarication on the Government's part continued until the State Savings Bank took up proposals by the Council and the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission and purchased 18 hectares of land in 1926 to the south of Williamstown Road and west of Graham Street. The Bank's estate consisted of houses which were two-storey, semi-detached and cement rendered, the estate and English design houses within it being inspired by the popular the Garden Suburb concept. They were the beginning of what became Melbourne's first Garden Suburb - Garden City.
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 the vicinity of Gardenvale Road between Nepean Highway and Kooyong Road. The origin of the name is uncertain: in 1907 the railway station was named Garden Vale, presumably inspired by the Market Gardens in the gently undulating countryside. The Elster Creek flows through Gardenvale before entering the Elwood Canal. Closer to the beach (i.e. North Brighton), settlement had occurred earlier. The Presbyterian Church was opened in 1862 and the second building in 1876, to be named John Knox, Gardenvale, in 1940.
GARDINER
Gardiner is a residential locality 9 km. south-east of Melbourne in the part of Glen Iris south of Gardiners Creek, near Malvern. The name recalls John Gardiner, a pastoral overlander to Port Phillip from Yass, New South Wales, in 1835. He settled near the junction of the Yarra River and Gardiners Creek about three kilometres to the north-east. His name was given to Gardiner shire (1871) which became Malvern shire in 1878. Gardiner has a railway station on the line from Burnley to Malvern East (1890). In 1912 the Belmont Estate was sold in subdivided form for housing, and three years late the Gardiner Central School in Belmont Street was opened. It later became a primary school and closed in 1992.
Gembrook
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 settled in 1873 for farming and timber getting. The country was suitable for dairying and orchards. Timber clearing provided income while farms were brought into production. The name came from small emeralds and sapphires found by early settlers in a nearby watercourse.
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 between 1869 and 1883. The area was subdivided for farms in 1842, and the Gladstone Park property was the best-watered and the only one to be sold. It was farmed until sold in 1887 to a land speculator, but his speculation was unsuccessful and the property returned to the Gladstone family. It continued to be farmed until coming into the hands of the Gladstone Park Syndicate in 1954. The Syndicate was part of Stanley Korman's Standhill conglomerate.
Stanhill produced an elaborate subdivision plan but met with financial difficulties. The Commonwealth Government's credit squeeze in 1961 caused the company to default and Costain and A.V. Jennings became the joint developer/builder of Gladstone Park. In 1966 they began the ten-year project of building 3,000 houses in Gladstone Park. In 1970 the area's first primary school was opened. Gladstone Park has a street configuration which is designed to discourage through traffic in most residential streets.
GLEN IRIS
Glen Iris is a residential suburb 10 kin. south-east of Melbourne, Its name come from that of a residence built by a solicitor J.C. Turner. He had acquired his land from a settler who had travelled to Victoria on the ship named the Iris. Glen Iris includes the small locality of Gardiner which, with the creek of the same name, was named after John Gardiner who overlanded stock to Port Phillip from New South Wales in 1836. Gardiner pastured his stock near where Gardiners Creek joins the Yarra River. Unlike Camberwell, Hartwell and Box Hill which were situated on roads or had inns for travellers. Glen Iris was a place of farms overlooking the Gardiners Creek Valley. The population growth was sufficient, though, for a Methodist church to be built in 1865 and a school in 1872 Both were in Glen Iris Road and were still in use in 1997. A general store was opened nearby in 1882, where a small local shopping centre continues to function. In 1890 a railway line was opened from Burnley to Oakleigh running via the Glen Iris Valley (as the Gardiners Creek Valley was called). The line in fact joined the Outer Circle line a little east of Glen Iris, and it was truncated when the Outer Circle line was partly closed in 1895. The line had three stations in the Glen Iris district - Tooronga, Gardiner and Glen Iris. Residential change came first ill the Malvern part of Glen Iris, which by 1917 had three tramlines - Malvern Road, turning north into Burke Road, Wattletree Road, terminating at Burke Road and High Street terminating at Glen Iris Railway station.
GLENBEVRIE
Glenbervie is a railway station located in the suburb of Essendon, on the Craigieburn railway line. Glenbervie station opened on September 11, 1922, a year after the line through it had been electrified, the railway having opened in 1872 as part of the North East railway to Wodonga.
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 thoroughfare is Glenferrie Road, and the name probably came from a property purchased in 1840 by Peter Ferrie, which he called Glen Ferrie. The property was on the south side of Gardiners Creek, in Malvern. Glenferrie was the name given to the railway station on the line between Hawthorn and Camberwell in 1882.
Burwood Road was the main east-west route through Hawthorn to Camberwell, and the Hawthorn borough hall was opened at the corner of Glenferrie and Burwood Roads in 1861. The local shopping strip before the turn of the century was along Burwood Road, which was serviced by a horse tram between 1890 and 1916. In 1913, however, a tramline was opened along Glenferrie Road, which stimulated the building of a second shopping strip, which ultimately overtook Burwood Road. The tram also became the private schools' line servicing Scotch College, Glenferrie (1916), Tintern Girls' school (until its transfer to Ringwood in 1953) and several further north in Kew. In 1916 the Hawthorn Tramways Trust opened an electric tramline along Riversdale Road, in addition to the parallel railway line (1882) about 800 metres northwards.
GLENHUNTLY
Glenhuntly 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 Glenhuntly 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.
GLENROY
Glenroy is a residential area 13 km. north of Melbourne. It contains the locality of Oak Park and the lesser ones of Gowrie, Westbreen and Hadfield. Its name comes form the Glenroy pastoral run occupied by Duncan Cameron from Glen Roy, Scotland. Cameron was one of several Scots farmers in the district whose tenure is still visible in the bluestone Scots church at Campbellfield. The area occupied by today's suburb was held by the Kennedy family, also from Inverness, Scotland, who arrived in Port Phillip in the mid 1840s. One of the family properties was Glenroy Farm, located immediately east of the railway line (1872) and accessed by a private level crossing along the alignment of the present day Glenroy Road. In 1874 Glenroy Farm and adjoining Kennedy properties were sold, and on-sold twelve years later at much profit to the Glenroy Land Co., which marketed it two years later as the Toorak of the North. The promoters built three double-storey shops in Wheatsheaf Road, fitted out a hall and paved some roads.
After the second world war Australian National Airways sponsored housing for its employees in Glenroy West (1946) and the War Service Homes Commission began building on the other side of the railway line in 1950. The following year the Housing Commission took control of 2,226 ha. of land in the Broadmeadows municipality, including Glenroy north, for housing. Between 1953 and 1957 the Commission completed about 1,700 houses in Glenroy and Jacana (the railway station next after Glenroy). Housing in Glenroy south proceeded at a similar pace.
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 farmers, orchardists and wood carters, a school was opened. By the 1880s there was a post office and a rudimentary township, and residents of Black Flat felt confident enough to seek a railway line connection. They were unsuccessful. Some residents were also discontented with the name and various proposals were considered over ten years. Finally Glen Waverley was settled in May, 1905, deriving from a privately surveyed township (1853), at the south-east corner of High Street Road and Stephensons Road, named by its owner after Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. In addition to farming, two early industries were gold mining (short lived, 1896), and pigment mining.
Notwithstanding the area's proximity to the railway line the outward spread of urbanisation from metropolitan Melbourne had substantial broad acres to fill in before reaching Glen Waverley. During the 1960s Glen Waverley underwent rapid residential growth.
GOWANBRAE
Gowanbrae is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moreland. At the 2006 Census, Gowanbrae had a population of 1892. It is the City of Moreland s newest suburb with residential development started in the 1990s and continuing.
GOWRIE
Gowrie is a railway station located in the suburb of Glenroy, on the Upfield railway line. Gowrie station opened on October 16, 1928 as Rail Motor Stopping Place 21. It closed in 1956 and reopened in 1965 as Gowrie. Until 1991 every second train terminated here. Gowrie marks the end of the double track on the Upfield Line.
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 highly sought after apart from the areas adjoining streams or other well watered areas. It was part of the subdivision by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle, in 1838. The section comprising most of present day Greensborough was purchased by Henry Smythe who sold it in 1841 to Edward Green, soldier, squatter and mail contractor. Green had various contracts for the carriage of mail to the western and north-western districts together with the service to Yass and Sydney. Although not occupying his land, Green had a town surveyed, overlooking the river, allegedly as a staging place for his re-routed mail contract. That did not eventuate, but land sales occurred and the "township" was called Greenborough, later Greensborough.
By 1868 Greensborough had an Anglican church with a primary school (1855), a store, a post office, a hotel and a local population of about 200. The Road District's population was about 670. In January, 1875, the Roads Board succeeded in amalgamating its area with Heidelberg shire, motivated by its difficulties in maintaining the roads. A state primary school replaced the Anglican in 1878. In 1902 the railway line was extended from Heidelberg to Eltham, with a station at Greensborough. The township's estimated population was about 270. There was a steady growth of population after the railway extension, but the area was predominantly rural until the postwar years because of the undeveloped areas suitable for inter-war housing closer to Melbourne.
GREENVALE
Greenvale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Greenvale had a population of 10,401. Although positioned only twenty minutes from the CBD and ten minutes from Melbourne Airport, Greenvale has been up until recently known as a semi rural area, categorised by the larger farm holdings to the north of the town centre (past Somerton Rd), hence its descriptive name. Greenvale expanded largely in the 1980s.
GUYS HILL
Guys Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 44 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Cardinia. At the 2006 Census, Guys Hill had a population of 544. Guys Hill Post Office opened on 1 September 1942.
HADFIELD
Hadfield is 13 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moreland. At the 2006 Census, Hadfield had a population of 5151. Hadfield originally formed part of the John Pascoe Fawkner estate. Significant development occurred in Hadfield after World War II, the Hadfield Post Office opening on 6 May 1957. The suburb is thought to be named after Hadfield, Derbyshire, a town in Derbyshire, England.
Hallam
HALLAM
Hallam is 35 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Casey. At the 2006 Census, Hallam had a population of 9652. The post office opened on 1 May 1889 as Hallam's Road Railway Station and was renamed Hallam's about 1910 and Hallam about 1925. It closed in 1981, but reopened in 1994.
HAMPTON
Hampton, a bayside residential suburb between Brighton and Sandringham is 14 km., south-south-east of Melbourne. Hampton was associated with the popular bayside Pic-Nic Point in the early 1880s, reached from the railway terminus at Brighton. The Point, elevated with sheltering patches of ti-tree, was serviced by two hotels and coffee gardens. In 1887 the railway was extended from Brighton to Sandringham and the intervening railway station was named Retreat, after Pic-Nic Point's Retreat Hotel. Already, though, the beach and the pier were named Hampton, firstly after an early market-gardener Dyas Hampton and, secondly, because incipient landboomers liked the regal-sounding name, akin to the neighbouring Sandringham. The change of the station to Hampton, after representations by local councillors, confirmed the name. Hampton's census population in 1911 was 1,369, and in 1913 a primary school was opened. The War Service Homes Commission built 300 homes. The 1930s saw marked growth in Hampton as market gardens were subdivided.
HARKAWAY
Harkaway is 40 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Casey. At the 2006 Census, Harkaway had a population of 422. The suburb is one which is home to many who wish to avoid the inner city clutter, yet remain relatively close to the city, and is characterised by its large distinguished homes and parkland. The area was settled by German immigrants in the 1850s. They initially bought land at Thomastown with the intention of subdividing a German settlement, but fresh from trying their luck at the Bendigo goldfields, found the fertile land at Harkaway south of King Road (originally Koenig Road, built as a stock route to water the cattle) and settled there instead. A townsite was never actually declared. Harkaway Post Office opened on 1 January 1865.
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 Fishermens Bend. When the Coode Canal was constructed in 1884-6 to both improve cargo ship access to the docks and to increase the stream velocity for upstream flood mitigation, the excavated silt was used for land reclamation. Much of the surrounding land was marshy river delta. In 1912 the Port Melbourne Council lobbied the State Government for housing sites to be allowed on the reclaimed land, but the Harbor Trust asserted its claim over the land which was in Trust territory. Prevarication on the Government's part continued until the State Savings Bank took up proposals by the Council and the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission and purchased 18 hectares of land in 1926 to the south of Williamstown Road and west of Graham Street. The Bank's estate consisted of houses which were two-storey, semi-detached and cement rendered, the estate and English design houses within it being inspired by the popular the Garden Suburb concept. They were the beginning of what became Melbourne's first Garden Suburb - Garden City.
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 the vicinity of Gardenvale Road between Nepean Highway and Kooyong Road. The origin of the name is uncertain: in 1907 the railway station was named Garden Vale, presumably inspired by the Market Gardens in the gently undulating countryside. The Elster Creek flows through Gardenvale before entering the Elwood Canal. Closer to the beach (i.e. North Brighton), settlement had occurred earlier. The Presbyterian Church was opened in 1862 and the second building in 1876, to be named John Knox, Gardenvale, in 1940.
GARDINER
Gardiner is a residential locality 9 km. south-east of Melbourne in the part of Glen Iris south of Gardiners Creek, near Malvern. The name recalls John Gardiner, a pastoral overlander to Port Phillip from Yass, New South Wales, in 1835. He settled near the junction of the Yarra River and Gardiners Creek about three kilometres to the north-east. His name was given to Gardiner shire (1871) which became Malvern shire in 1878. Gardiner has a railway station on the line from Burnley to Malvern East (1890). In 1912 the Belmont Estate was sold in subdivided form for housing, and three years late the Gardiner Central School in Belmont Street was opened. It later became a primary school and closed in 1992.
Gembrook
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 settled in 1873 for farming and timber getting. The country was suitable for dairying and orchards. Timber clearing provided income while farms were brought into production. The name came from small emeralds and sapphires found by early settlers in a nearby watercourse.
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 between 1869 and 1883. The area was subdivided for farms in 1842, and the Gladstone Park property was the best-watered and the only one to be sold. It was farmed until sold in 1887 to a land speculator, but his speculation was unsuccessful and the property returned to the Gladstone family. It continued to be farmed until coming into the hands of the Gladstone Park Syndicate in 1954. The Syndicate was part of Stanley Korman's Standhill conglomerate.
Stanhill produced an elaborate subdivision plan but met with financial difficulties. The Commonwealth Government's credit squeeze in 1961 caused the company to default and Costain and A.V. Jennings became the joint developer/builder of Gladstone Park. In 1966 they began the ten-year project of building 3,000 houses in Gladstone Park. In 1970 the area's first primary school was opened. Gladstone Park has a street configuration which is designed to discourage through traffic in most residential streets.
GLEN IRIS
Glen Iris is a residential suburb 10 kin. south-east of Melbourne, Its name come from that of a residence built by a solicitor J.C. Turner. He had acquired his land from a settler who had travelled to Victoria on the ship named the Iris. Glen Iris includes the small locality of Gardiner which, with the creek of the same name, was named after John Gardiner who overlanded stock to Port Phillip from New South Wales in 1836. Gardiner pastured his stock near where Gardiners Creek joins the Yarra River. Unlike Camberwell, Hartwell and Box Hill which were situated on roads or had inns for travellers. Glen Iris was a place of farms overlooking the Gardiners Creek Valley. The population growth was sufficient, though, for a Methodist church to be built in 1865 and a school in 1872 Both were in Glen Iris Road and were still in use in 1997. A general store was opened nearby in 1882, where a small local shopping centre continues to function. In 1890 a railway line was opened from Burnley to Oakleigh running via the Glen Iris Valley (as the Gardiners Creek Valley was called). The line in fact joined the Outer Circle line a little east of Glen Iris, and it was truncated when the Outer Circle line was partly closed in 1895. The line had three stations in the Glen Iris district - Tooronga, Gardiner and Glen Iris. Residential change came first ill the Malvern part of Glen Iris, which by 1917 had three tramlines - Malvern Road, turning north into Burke Road, Wattletree Road, terminating at Burke Road and High Street terminating at Glen Iris Railway station.
GLENBEVRIE
Glenbervie is a railway station located in the suburb of Essendon, on the Craigieburn railway line. Glenbervie station opened on September 11, 1922, a year after the line through it had been electrified, the railway having opened in 1872 as part of the North East railway to Wodonga.
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 thoroughfare is Glenferrie Road, and the name probably came from a property purchased in 1840 by Peter Ferrie, which he called Glen Ferrie. The property was on the south side of Gardiners Creek, in Malvern. Glenferrie was the name given to the railway station on the line between Hawthorn and Camberwell in 1882.
Burwood Road was the main east-west route through Hawthorn to Camberwell, and the Hawthorn borough hall was opened at the corner of Glenferrie and Burwood Roads in 1861. The local shopping strip before the turn of the century was along Burwood Road, which was serviced by a horse tram between 1890 and 1916. In 1913, however, a tramline was opened along Glenferrie Road, which stimulated the building of a second shopping strip, which ultimately overtook Burwood Road. The tram also became the private schools' line servicing Scotch College, Glenferrie (1916), Tintern Girls' school (until its transfer to Ringwood in 1953) and several further north in Kew. In 1916 the Hawthorn Tramways Trust opened an electric tramline along Riversdale Road, in addition to the parallel railway line (1882) about 800 metres northwards.
GLENHUNTLY
Glenhuntly 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 Glenhuntly 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.
GLENROY
Glenroy is a residential area 13 km. north of Melbourne. It contains the locality of Oak Park and the lesser ones of Gowrie, Westbreen and Hadfield. Its name comes form the Glenroy pastoral run occupied by Duncan Cameron from Glen Roy, Scotland. Cameron was one of several Scots farmers in the district whose tenure is still visible in the bluestone Scots church at Campbellfield. The area occupied by today's suburb was held by the Kennedy family, also from Inverness, Scotland, who arrived in Port Phillip in the mid 1840s. One of the family properties was Glenroy Farm, located immediately east of the railway line (1872) and accessed by a private level crossing along the alignment of the present day Glenroy Road. In 1874 Glenroy Farm and adjoining Kennedy properties were sold, and on-sold twelve years later at much profit to the Glenroy Land Co., which marketed it two years later as the Toorak of the North. The promoters built three double-storey shops in Wheatsheaf Road, fitted out a hall and paved some roads.
After the second world war Australian National Airways sponsored housing for its employees in Glenroy West (1946) and the War Service Homes Commission began building on the other side of the railway line in 1950. The following year the Housing Commission took control of 2,226 ha. of land in the Broadmeadows municipality, including Glenroy north, for housing. Between 1953 and 1957 the Commission completed about 1,700 houses in Glenroy and Jacana (the railway station next after Glenroy). Housing in Glenroy south proceeded at a similar pace.
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 farmers, orchardists and wood carters, a school was opened. By the 1880s there was a post office and a rudimentary township, and residents of Black Flat felt confident enough to seek a railway line connection. They were unsuccessful. Some residents were also discontented with the name and various proposals were considered over ten years. Finally Glen Waverley was settled in May, 1905, deriving from a privately surveyed township (1853), at the south-east corner of High Street Road and Stephensons Road, named by its owner after Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. In addition to farming, two early industries were gold mining (short lived, 1896), and pigment mining.
Notwithstanding the area's proximity to the railway line the outward spread of urbanisation from metropolitan Melbourne had substantial broad acres to fill in before reaching Glen Waverley. During the 1960s Glen Waverley underwent rapid residential growth.
GOWANBRAE
Gowanbrae is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moreland. At the 2006 Census, Gowanbrae had a population of 1892. It is the City of Moreland s newest suburb with residential development started in the 1990s and continuing.
GOWRIE
Gowrie is a railway station located in the suburb of Glenroy, on the Upfield railway line. Gowrie station opened on October 16, 1928 as Rail Motor Stopping Place 21. It closed in 1956 and reopened in 1965 as Gowrie. Until 1991 every second train terminated here. Gowrie marks the end of the double track on the Upfield Line.
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 highly sought after apart from the areas adjoining streams or other well watered areas. It was part of the subdivision by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle, in 1838. The section comprising most of present day Greensborough was purchased by Henry Smythe who sold it in 1841 to Edward Green, soldier, squatter and mail contractor. Green had various contracts for the carriage of mail to the western and north-western districts together with the service to Yass and Sydney. Although not occupying his land, Green had a town surveyed, overlooking the river, allegedly as a staging place for his re-routed mail contract. That did not eventuate, but land sales occurred and the "township" was called Greenborough, later Greensborough.
By 1868 Greensborough had an Anglican church with a primary school (1855), a store, a post office, a hotel and a local population of about 200. The Road District's population was about 670. In January, 1875, the Roads Board succeeded in amalgamating its area with Heidelberg shire, motivated by its difficulties in maintaining the roads. A state primary school replaced the Anglican in 1878. In 1902 the railway line was extended from Heidelberg to Eltham, with a station at Greensborough. The township's estimated population was about 270. There was a steady growth of population after the railway extension, but the area was predominantly rural until the postwar years because of the undeveloped areas suitable for inter-war housing closer to Melbourne.
GREENVALE
Greenvale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Greenvale had a population of 10,401. Although positioned only twenty minutes from the CBD and ten minutes from Melbourne Airport, Greenvale has been up until recently known as a semi rural area, categorised by the larger farm holdings to the north of the town centre (past Somerton Rd), hence its descriptive name. Greenvale expanded largely in the 1980s.
GUYS HILL
Guys Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 44 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Cardinia. At the 2006 Census, Guys Hill had a population of 544. Guys Hill Post Office opened on 1 September 1942.
HADFIELD
Hadfield is 13 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moreland. At the 2006 Census, Hadfield had a population of 5151. Hadfield originally formed part of the John Pascoe Fawkner estate. Significant development occurred in Hadfield after World War II, the Hadfield Post Office opening on 6 May 1957. The suburb is thought to be named after Hadfield, Derbyshire, a town in Derbyshire, England.
Hallam
HALLAM
Hallam is 35 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Casey. At the 2006 Census, Hallam had a population of 9652. The post office opened on 1 May 1889 as Hallam's Road Railway Station and was renamed Hallam's about 1910 and Hallam about 1925. It closed in 1981, but reopened in 1994.
HAMPTON
Hampton, a bayside residential suburb between Brighton and Sandringham is 14 km., south-south-east of Melbourne. Hampton was associated with the popular bayside Pic-Nic Point in the early 1880s, reached from the railway terminus at Brighton. The Point, elevated with sheltering patches of ti-tree, was serviced by two hotels and coffee gardens. In 1887 the railway was extended from Brighton to Sandringham and the intervening railway station was named Retreat, after Pic-Nic Point's Retreat Hotel. Already, though, the beach and the pier were named Hampton, firstly after an early market-gardener Dyas Hampton and, secondly, because incipient landboomers liked the regal-sounding name, akin to the neighbouring Sandringham. The change of the station to Hampton, after representations by local councillors, confirmed the name. Hampton's census population in 1911 was 1,369, and in 1913 a primary school was opened. The War Service Homes Commission built 300 homes. The 1930s saw marked growth in Hampton as market gardens were subdivided.
HARKAWAY
Harkaway is 40 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Casey. At the 2006 Census, Harkaway had a population of 422. The suburb is one which is home to many who wish to avoid the inner city clutter, yet remain relatively close to the city, and is characterised by its large distinguished homes and parkland. The area was settled by German immigrants in the 1850s. They initially bought land at Thomastown with the intention of subdividing a German settlement, but fresh from trying their luck at the Bendigo goldfields, found the fertile land at Harkaway south of King Road (originally Koenig Road, built as a stock route to water the cattle) and settled there instead. A townsite was never actually declared. Harkaway Post Office opened on 1 January 1865.
