Coldstream, Victoria

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Coldstream
Melbourne, Victoria

Population:

1813 (2001 census)

Postcode:

3770

Elevation:

152 m

Location:

45 km from Melbourne
6 km from Lilydale

LGA:

Shire of Yarra Ranges

State District:

Evelyn

Federal Division:

Casey

Suburbs around Coldstream
Yering	Yarra Glen	Healesville
Bend of Islands	Coldstream	Gruyere
Chirnside Park	Lilydale	Wandin North

Coldstream is a small town just outside eastern suburban Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the Shire of Yarra Ranges, 6 km to the east of Lilydale.

In 1909, Dame Nellie Melba bought a cottage at Coldstream. The cottage is located at the current juncture of Maroondah Highway and Melba Highway (named in her honour). Melbourne's CBD is 49 kilometres to the west, along the Maroondah highway and then the Eastern Freeway.

Coldstream has a local primary school, a community centre, garbage dump and several farms. It had a railway station that was used for freight purposes up until the 1990s, but it has since been closed and the buildings demolished. The airstrip, Coldstream Airfield, is home to a flying school operated by the Royal Victorian Aero Club.

On clear winter mornings Coldstream is the coldest if not one of the coldest places around Melbourne, with the temperature dropping below 0°C (32°F) on several mornings each year (it very rarely drops below 2°C in the centre of Melbourne). It is sometimes even colder than nearby Mount Dandenong (which is at just over 600 meters above sea level compared to just under 100 meters for Coldstream).