Bentleigh, Victoria
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| Bentleigh Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 13543 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3204 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 4.7 km² | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $507,500 [1] | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 15 km from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Glen Eira | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Bentleigh | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Goldstein | ||||||||||||
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Bentleigh is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria, located within the Local Government Area of the City of Glen Eira. Its postcode is 3204 and it is located 14 km south east of the Melbourne central business district.
Bentleigh was named after the infamous Victorian politician, Thomas Bent.
It is home to Alnutt Park, Victory Park, Halley Park, and Bentleigh Memorial Gardens. Centre Road, Bentleigh, is a strip shopping centre with a focus on fresh food, continental delis and cake shops and cafes.
[edit] Public Transport
Bentleigh has two railway stations, Bentleigh and Patterson, the former is the end of zone 1 on the Frankston train line.
Bentleigh is also serviced by two bus services, the 703 and 701, both are run by Ventura Bus Lines. The 703 is a SmartBus service which runs from Middle Brighton to Blackburn through Bentleigh's main shopping strip Centre Road. The 701 service starts from Bentleigh railway station and terminates at Oakleigh railway station. As part of the State Government's $10.5 billion transport plan the 701 service will be upgraded and the route expanded. For the first time it will run on Sundays from 9am to 9pm on an hourly basis.
[edit] External links
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
- Australian Places - Bentleigh & Bentleigh East
- Centre Road Bentleigh (commercial website)
| Suburbs of the City of Glen Eira | |
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Bentleigh | Bentleigh East | Caulfield | Caulfield East | Caulfield North | Caulfield South | Carnegie | Elsternwick | Gardenvale | Glen Huntly | McKinnon | Murrumbeena | Ormond | St. Kilda East |
