Surrey Hills, Victoria
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| Surrey Hills Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 12571 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3127 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 4.4 km² | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $696,000 [1] | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 14 km from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Whitehorse City of Boroondara |
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| State District: | Box Hill, Burwood | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Chisholm, Kooyong | ||||||||||||
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Surrey Hills is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Boroondara and also City of Whitehorse.
Its local primary school is called Surrey Hills Primary. Surrey Hills's CBD of sorts is a 250 metre strip of shops along Union Road which features Surrey Hills railway station (on the Lilydale and Belgrave lines), five cafes, two bakers, two chemists, Neighbourhood Center, Community Bank, a post office and a large bottle shop. Coming out from Melbourne, Union road is the first railway level crossing on the Lilydale/Belgrave line. Surrey Hills also has Chatham railway station just off Canterbury road. Most working residents of Surrey Hills commute to Melbourne either by car or train. To reach a safe bicycle path for the city commute cyclists must travel south to the Gardiner's Creek Trail or north to the Main Yarra Trail, via the Anniversary Outer Circle Trail.
To the north, Surrey Hills is also serviced by the 109 tram route which continues from Port Melbourne, on to Box Hill and in the south the 70 tram line which travels from the city to Wattle Park.
There is a suburb called "Surry Hills" in Sydney that is occasionally confused with Melbourne's Surrey Hills.
[edit] History
The Surrey Hills area was first developed by real estate consortiums following the extension of the railway line from Camberwell to Lilydale in 1882. Housing estates were laid out and streets were given impressive names such as Balmoral, Windsor and Albert Crescents, but the area was considered too distant from the nearest shopping districts; Camberwell to the west and Box Hill to the east. The economic depression of the 1890s brought development to a halt and the next major phase of suburban development didn't take place until after the First World War.
Surrey Hills contains the "English counties district", which is a small area between Canterbury and Riversdale Roads where the streets are named after English counties, including Durham, Kent, Middlesex, Essex, Suffolk roads.
During the nineties, the last bank branch in the Union Road shopping strip closed, which caused some concern within both the local community and local traders. On 24 February 2003 the Surrey Hills Community Bank (a Community Bank Branch of Bendigo Bank) opened for business in Union Road.
[edit] Major Parks and Gardens
The major parks and gardens in Surrey Hills are Surrey Gardens and South Surrey Park. Surrey Hills is also adjacent to Wattle Park which is just across Riversdale Road to the South in Burwood.
[edit] External links
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
| Suburbs within the City of Boroondara | |
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Ashburton | Balwyn | Balwyn North | Camberwell | Canterbury | Glen Iris | Hawthorn | Hawthorn East | Kew | Kew East | Mont Albert | Surrey Hills |
| Suburbs of the City of Whitehorse | |
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Blackburn | Blackburn North | Blackburn South | Box Hill | Box Hill North | Box Hill South | Burwood | Burwood East | Forest Hill | Mitcham | Mont Albert | Mont Albert North | Nunawading | Surrey Hills | Vermont | Vermont South |
