Dingley Village, Victoria

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Dingley Village
Melbourne, Victoria
Population: 10,072 (2006)[1]
Established: 1920s
Postcode: 3172
Area: 7.9 km² (3.1 sq mi)
Property Value: AUD $370,000 [2]
Location: 27 km (17 mi) from Melbourne
LGA: City of Kingston
State District: Mordialloc
Federal Division: Hotham
Suburbs around Dingley Village:
Clarinda Clayton South Springvale
Moorabbin Airport Dingley Village Springvale South
Mordialloc Braeside Keysborough

Dingley Village is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Kingston.

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[edit] History

In 1856 Thomas Attenborough bought land in the area and named his house Dingley Grange, after Dingley Hall which had existed near the town of Melbourne in his native Northamptonshire, England. A farming community developed, relatively remote from either the bayside or Gippsland railway lines, moving into market gardens and poultry to supply metropolitan markets. There was no identifiable centre to the area apart from Christ Church (1873) at the corner of Centre and Old Dandenong Roads, with its attractive architecture and bell tower.

A family of five brothers - the Gartsides - solved the problem of vegetable gluts by opening a cannery in about 1920. The cannery employed up to fifty local people. They donated land for the primary school which opened in 1925. In 1936 the Kingswood Golf Club, Dandenong, opened its new course at Dingley. A progress association was formed in 1947, and a recreation reserve acquired in 1954.

Urbanisation in Dingley began in the early 1960s. A small shopping centre, school, kindergarten, reserve and, later, Sunday Markets on the reserve created a village atmosphere which resulted in the official change of name.

Two more primary schools, one Catholic, opened later, along with the Spring Park Public Golf course and nearby tennis-courts complex. Near the Moorabbin Airport is an industrial zone set in a garden landscape, separated form the Dingley Village residential area by a reservation for the Mornington Peninsula Freeway.

The rock band Jet originated from the suburb.[3]din

[edit] Education

  • Dingley Primary School [1] (1925), located on the corner of Centre Dandenong and Marcus roads.
  • Kingswood Primary School [2] (1976).
  • St Mark's Primary School [3] is a Catholic primary school within the Archdiocese of Melbourne.

[edit] Community facilities

[edit] Sporting facilities and clubs

[edit] Churches

  • Heatherton-Dingley Uniting Church ("The Little White Church on the Corner")

cnr Old Dandenong Road & Heatherton Roads. Historic building, the church had been a part of the community for 148 years. Traditional style of worship. 9558 1733

Christ Church Dingley
Christ Church Dingley

[edit] Community associations

[edit] Landmarks

[edit] Statistical data

Statistical data on Dingley Village was collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics during the 2001 census.
Males
Females
Persons

Total Persons

 10,623 10,877 21,500
Aged 15 years and over 8,320 8,741 17,061
Aged 65 Years and over 967 1,220 2,187
Aboriginal 7 12 19
Torres Strait Islander 8 5 13
Born in Australia 5,974 6,092 12,066
Born Overseas 4,020 4,164 8,184
Speaks English Only 6,068 6,226 12,294
Speaks another language 4,033 4,146 8,179
Australian Citizen 9,295 9,531 18,826
Australian Citizen aged 18 years or over 6,835 7,168 14,003

[edit] See also

  • City of Springvale - the former local government area of which Dingley Village was a part.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Dingley Village (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
  2. ^ Dingley Village, accessed 9 August 2007
  3. ^ Holmes, Peter. "Listen to Jet's new album", Sydney Confidential, 24 September 2006. Retrieved on 2006-04-29. 

[edit] External links

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