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NARRE WARREN / NARRE WARREN NORTH / NARRE WARREN SOUTH
Narre Warren is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 37 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Casey. At the 2006 Census, Narre Warren had a population of 25,667. Over the years Narre Warren has grown from a semi-rural residential town to become a part of a major growth corridor in the south-east of Melbourne. The name comes from the Aboriginal ' Nerre Nerre Warrene', believed to mean ' little hills'. In the first part of the 19th century, the Colonial Secretary approved a large area alongside Dandenong Creek at Narre Narre Warrene to be secured as the site of anAaboriginal Protectorate and for the Native Police Reserve. Here the Aboriginal men of the Native Police Force were allowed to hunt, fish and work the gardens but were required to forgo all other tribal activities except for those activities that would benefit the police in their work, which entailed defending settlers against Aboriginal freedom fighters.

NEWMARKET
Newmarket is located in the suburb of Flemington, on the Craigieburn railway line. Newmarket station opened on November 1, 1860 as part of the private Melbourne and Essendon Railway Company line to Essendon. The station closed with the line in 1864 until it was reopened in 1871 under government ownership. A permanent station building was not constructed until 1886, with the present buildings dating from 1925, while the bridge at Racecourse Road is the third on the site.

NEWPORT
Newport is 7 km south-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hobsons Bay. At the 2006 Census, Newport had a population of 11,244. The Newport Railway Workshops, at what was originally known as Williamstown Junction, played a key role in the history of the suburb, formerly the main workshops of Victorian Railways.


Niddrie

NIDDRIE
Niddrie is 13 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley. At the 2006 Census, Niddrie had a population of 4531. Niddrie and the banks of the Maribyrnong River were originally inhabited by the Wurundjeri tribe of the Kulin Aboriginal nation. Between 1843 and 1851, the Scottish settler, Thomas Napier (1802-1881) purchased the Keilor Road land covering Niddrie and Airport West. In 1869, Napier sold this 249-acre (1.01 km2) land to Henry Stevenson (1810-1893). By 1871, Stevenson had built a house he named Niddrie, after his birthplace of Niddrie, a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. Though not officially registered as a suburb until 26 May 1994 the Keilor Council initiated this in 1955.

NOBLE PARK
Noble Park, 16 km. south-east of Melbourne, is bordered by Springvale on the west and the Dandenong Creek on the east. It is mainly residential and contains Harrisfield and Yarraman. The Oakleigh to Gippsland railway line had stations at Springvale and Dandenong and as land near the Springvale station underwent subdivision into small farm holdings, owners down the line subdivided their land. In 1909 several holdings in the area later to be known as Noble Park were cut up for market gardens. One of the vendors was Allan Buckley, who is chiefly recognised as the founder of Noble Park, as it is named after one of his six children, Noble Buckley. His other children's names were given to streets, including Douglas Street where the shopping centre is located. The Buckley family school was opened in 1911, an Anglican church in 1912 and a railway office/stopping place in 1913. A public hall was built in the same year which, under the management of locally elected trustees, has occupied a strong position in the community.
Until the year after the second world war Noble Park was mainly a farming community concentrated on market gardens, dairying and poultry. Small amounts of industry were near the railway station, along with housing. The town had six shops in 1923, and the 1933 census recorded 1,506 persons.


North Melbourne

NORTH MELBOURNE
North Melbourne is a residential, commercial and industrial suburb immediately north-west of central Melbourne. It is often associated with West Melbourne (in which is situated the North Melbourne railway yards), and the boundary between the two is Victoria Street. In 1842 the first institution of significance erected in the North Melbourne area was a cattle yard at the corner of Elizabeth and Victoria Streets (now the Queen Victoria Market). In 1851 a Benevolent Asylum was built between Abbotsford and Curzon Streets, straddling Victoria Street and thus partly in North Melbourne. The opening of the asylum coincided with the Melbourne Town Council's overtures for a new township to accommodate the gold-rush population influx. A site for the township was found by severance from an open-space reserve of 1,035 ha. that had been approved by the Governor of New South Wales in 1845. The result was a smaller reserve - now Royal Park - and a township called Parkside which now comprises North and West Melbourne. Town allotments were put up for sale in September, 1852. The first subdivision was south of Arden Street and confined by a watercourse from Royal Park running south-west to the West Melbourne swamp (itself a limitation on Melbourne's expansion until it was drained and filled in 1879). The second subdivision north of Arden Street was in 1855. Both subdivisions sold well and the influx of population was rapid.

NORTHCOTE
Northcote is a residential and industrial suburb 8 km. north-north-east of Melbourne. Until 1994 it was a municipality, bounded on the west by the Merri Creek and on the east by the Darebin Creek. The land surface of Northcote is a mixture of basaltic and mudstone/clay, the latter having a considerable bearing on Northcote's economic development. Much of the former Northcote municipality was sold at a Government land sale in October, 1839, in lots as large as 115 ha. Two original purchasers have left their names on places or landmarks: Ruckers Hill, west of the Northcote town hall (from William Rucker), and Penders Grove, Thornbury, on the north-eastern border. All the lots were long and narrow, mostly running east-west. Their configuration has imposed the predominant east-west street pattern. The Northcote township was surveyed in 1853 immediately north of a bend in the Merri Creek where Westgarth is now situated. It is now thought that the name Northcote was bestowed by the Surveyor-General, Sir Andrew Clarke, possibly as a compliment to Stafford Henry Northcote, barrister, private secretary to Gladstone and co-author of the famous Northcote-Trevelyan report on the reform of the British civil service (1853). Until the land-boom 1880s, Northcote remained rural, with occasional mansions or large homes. It was beyond the ring of metropolitan development before the land boom. Notable establishments along the river valleys were the Fulham Grange Orchard and preserving factory, Lucerne Farm and the Yarra Bend metropolitan lunatic asylum (1848).

NOTTING HILL
Notting Hill is a residential and commercial area 18 km. south-east of Melbourne, between Mount Waverley and Clayton North. Its traditional centre is on Ferntree Gully Road. The area is more a plateau than a hill, and is the site of two local water storages. A settler, Thomas Wilkinson, is generally accepted as giving the area its name because of his association with Notting Hill in London. He was a carrier between Oakleigh and Ferntree Gully and in the late 1870s opened a refreshment stop at Notting Hill, 4 km. from Oakleigh.
Ferntree Gully Road was the main thoroughfare between Mulgrave shire and Oakleigh, and Notting Hill attracted a relatively high density of farms. In 1920 there were dairy and poultry farms and market gardens, and the families agitated for a school which was finally opened in 1927. Much of Notting Hill is today occupied by industrial premises.

NUNAWADING
Nunawading is a residential suburb 18 km. east of Melbourne between Box Hill and Ringwood. Nunawading was first the name of a parish bounded on the north by the Koonung Creek, on the east by the Dandenong Creek and Ringwood, on the south by Highbury Road and on the west by Boundary (Warrigal) Road, adjoining Camberwell. The parish contained the areas now known as Box Hill, Blackburn, Forest Hill, Mitcham, Vermont and part of Burwood/Burwood East.
The name was liberally used around the parish for various schools. In 1856 a school was opened in the Ballyshannassay village in the south-west of the parish and called Nunawading for nine years. Its later name was Burwood. In 1861 a school was opened on the border of Nunawading and Mulgrave parishes, to serve both areas. It was called Nunawading for 38 years before becoming Burwood East. Three other short-lived schools (1858-94), in the Box Hill area were named Nunawading. The name is thought to be derived from an Aboriginal word numphawading, meaning a ceremonial ground or battlefield. The area now known as Nunawading was Tunstall, and remained so until 1945. Tunstall township was at the intersection of Springvale and Whitehorse Roads. The clearing of the land for firewood and agriculture pursuits had revealed deposits of clay. In the 1870s bricks and clay products were being produced, which had better access to markets when the Tunstall station was opened in 1886, four years after the railway line was extended from Camberwell to Lilydale. The name Tunstall derives from this activity, as Tunstall, England, was famed for its potteries. Clay products and orchards co-existed into the early twentieth century.

OAK PARK
Oak Park, a residential suburb 11 km. north of Melbourne, is situated in the southern part of Glenroy. Its western border is the Moonee Ponds Creek. The name is thought to derive from a property once owned by John Pascoe Fawkner. Fawkner acquired land in the Oak Park area in 1839 at a Government land sale. Consisting of 316 ha., it ran eastwards from the Moonee Ponds Creek to today's Pascoe Vale. The Sydney Road (now Pascoe Vale Road), ran through the land. Between 1840 and 1855 Fawkner lived there, naming it Belle Vue of Grand View Park, near the Oak Park primary school. A stable in Oak Park Court is thought to date from Fawkner's occupation.When the property was bought from Fawkner's widow in 1879 the new owner renamed it Oak Park. His two storey mansion has a single-storey dwelling beside, thought to have been built by Fawkner. They are at the corner of Marie and Josephine Streets.
When the railway line went through the area in 1872 no railway station was provided at Oak Park. When the line was electrified in 1921 the stations were confined to Pascoe Vale and Glenroy, and the Oak Park station was built in the mid 1950s after housing came to the area. Being without a railway station, housing subdivisions did not occur until after the second world war. The 1950s and 1960s saw the area's quickest growth. By 1970 the area was nearly filled with housing, although the Oak park mansion had a 600 bird poultry shed in its grounds when it was sold that year.


Oakleigh

OAKLEIGH
Oakleigh is a residential suburb with considerable secondary industry 15 km. south-east of Melbourne, immediately beyond Caulfield and Malvern. Until 1853 the area was known as Scotchmans Creek, when the name Oakleigh was given to it. The name may derive form she-oaks growing near Scotchmans Creek, from Oakleigh Park, near Malvern Hills, Hertfordshire, England, or from an early settler, Mrs. Oakley.
Scotchmans Creek's headwaters are in present day Mount Waverley and flow westerly. In 1840 John McMillan leased the Scotchmans Creek grazing run, stretching over land from Mount Waverley to Oakleigh, which was later administered by a Shire named Oakleigh (1871-91) and then by Oakleigh borough (present day Oakleigh) and Oakleigh shire. Oakleigh shire was renamed Mulgrave in 1897. The connection between Oakleigh and Mulgrave was predominantly along Ferntree Gully Road, which began near the original Oakleigh township on Dandenong Road, known locally as the Broadway.

OFFICER
Officer is 49 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. The suburb is named after the Officer family, who were early settlers in the area. A timber industry was established, and by 1870 timber was being transported from the railways sidings named Officer's Wood Siding. This was shortened to Officer's and later, Officer. A brickmaking industry began in the 1880s, but died away after the collapse of the land boom. The population was sufficient to justify a Post Office opening on 16 December 1885 The railway station was known as Officer's Siding until 1888.

OLINDA
Olinda is township, with rural and scenic areas, 37 km. east of Melbourne and at the southern foot of Mount Dandenong. The name Olinda originates from Olinda Creek, a watercourse with its headwaters in the Olinda area and which runs northwards towards Lilydale. In 1858 the creek was named after Alice Olinda Hodgkinson, the daughter of Victoria's dedicated and energetic Acting Surveyor-General, Clement Hodgkinson.
Olinda was first settled in the 1870s following its excision from the Dandenong Forest. The local timber provided a living. In the mod 1890s ten-acre blocks were made available for selection, and township blocks surveyed and sold. Between 1900 and 1906 a post office, school and churches were built. By 1910 the area of Olinda stretching south-east to Monbulk was extensively cleared for horticulture - orchards, berries and vegetable growing. The western forested part of Olinda was a tourist area, the first guest house being built in 1896. In the township churches were established at the turn of the century and a school was built in 1906. After 1910 berry growing was replaced by dairying and cut flowers and Olinda entered a prosperous period of guest-house tourism. Melburnians built weekenders and, later, more spacious residences situated to take advantage of the extensive views. Several artists (Streeton, Meldrum, Maltby) built in Olinda.

OLIVERS HILL
Olivers Hill is located in the City of Frankston, Victoria in Australia. It is the first major rise in terrain along the eastern coastline of Port Phillip Bay, between Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. It was named after local Frankston fisherman, James Oliver, who built the first cottage atop the hill, in the mid-1800s, from where he kept watch for fish in the waters below. Olivers Hill is one of the most sought after residential locations in the City of Frankston as many properties here boast uninterrupted views aross Port Phillip Bay to the city of Melbourne.


Melbourne University Victoria Ormond College

ORMOND
Ormond, a residential suburb south of the Caulfield Racecourse, is 12 km. south-east of Melbourne. It is named after Francis Ormond (1829-89), grazier and philanthropist with a strong interest in education (e.g. Ormond College). Point Ormond, where Glenhuntly Road meets the bay, was named after a master mariner, Francis Ormond, father of the first-mentioned. Like much of Brighton, Ormond was agricultural during the nineteenth century, with some vineyards which were shared with neighbouring McKinnon. The railway line was extended from Caulfield to Mordialloc in 1881 and the North Road station renamed Ormond in 1897. Another railway, the Rosstown line, from Oakleigh to Elsternwick, ran at right angle to the Mordialloc line, crossing it about 700 metres north of North Road. The route can be traced in modern street directories which show Oakleigh Road and its prolongation in the form of a linear park.