Caulfield South, Victoria
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Caulfield South Melbourne, Victoria |
|||||||||||||
| Population: | 10301 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3162 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 3.3 km² | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $620,000 [1] | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 12 km from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Glen Eira | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Caulfield | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Melbourne Ports and Goldstein | ||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
Caulfield South is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira, and although it has its own postcode (3162), forms part of the larger city of Caulfield.
Caulfield South is bounded by Glen Huntly Road to the north, Booran Road to the east, North Road to the south and Kooyong Road to the west. Although it has no railway station, it is serviced by the numbers 64 and 67 tram routes.
One landmark of note is the Caulfield General Medical Centre which began life as one of the local mansions, the Glen Eira. This was purchased in 1915 by the Australian Department of Defence and turned into No. 11 Army General Hospital where it served as a rehabilitation centre for returned servicemen from the Great War who sustained permanent or severe injuries. It has since undergone many changes of purpose and management and currently caters primarily for rehabilitation and geriatric medicine.
The Brighton Cemetery is also located in Caulfield South, and pre-dates the Caulfield Roads Board - the first official recognition of the suburb of Caulfield. Opened in 1855 it became, together with St. Kilda Cemetery, an alternative resting place for those who had lived south of the Yarra river. There are up 70,000 people interred, including famous Australian artists, politicians and military heroes.
Caulfield South has many parks and gardens, the most notable of which is Princes Park. The area was a council landfill up until the middle of the twentieth century, when it was transformed into public park lands. It has been improved further and now includes several ovals and playing fields, sports clubs, open spaces, childrens playgrounds and many walking tracks.
The Rosstown Railway once ran through Caulfield South, and its traversal through several suburban blocks remains public land to this day, an easy identifier of where the track once ran.
[edit] External links
-
- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
- Glen Eira city council home page.
- Further information about Brighton Cemetery.
| Suburbs of the City of Glen Eira | |
|---|---|
|
Bentleigh | Bentleigh East | Caulfield | Caulfield East | Caulfield North | Caulfield South | Carnegie | Elsternwick | Gardenvale | Glen Huntly | McKinnon | Murrumbeena | Ormond | St. Kilda East |
