Niddrie, Victoria

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Niddrie
Melbourne, Victoria
Population: 4531 (2006)[1]
Established: 1871
Postcode: 3042
Area: 2.2 km² (0.8 sq mi)
Property Value: AUD $470,000[2]
Location: 13 km (8 mi) from Melbourne
LGA: City of Moonee Valley
State District: Niddrie
Federal Division: Maribyrnong
Suburbs around Niddrie:
Airport West Airport West Essendon North
Keilor East Niddrie Essendon
Keilor East Essendon West Aberfeldie

Niddrie is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley. The Calder Freeway delineates the northern boundary of the suburb, Steele Creek to the west, Hoffmans Road to the east and Rosehill Road to the South

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[edit] History

The Niddrie Homestead as it appeared in the early 1960s
The Niddrie Homestead as it appeared in the early 1960s

Niddrie and the banks of the Maribyrnong River were originally inhabited by the Wurundjeri tribe of the Kulin Aboriginal nation.

Between 1843 and 1851, the Scottich settler, Thomas Napier (1802-1881) purchased the Keilor Road land covering Niddrie and Airport West. In 1869, Napier sold this 249 Acre land to Henry Stevenson (1810-1893). By 1871, Stevenson had built a house he named "Niddrie", after his birthplace of Niddrie, a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. After his death in 1893, the property was transferred to his wife Elizabeth, who sold it to Patrick Morgan eight years later.[3] Though not officially registered as a suburb until 26 May 1994, the Keilor Council initiated this in 1955. [4]

[edit] Commerce

The main shopping centre is located on Keilor Road, Niddrie. The main industries of the suburb are construction (19%), property and business services (18%), retail trade (17%) and manufacturing (13%).

[edit] Transport

The number 59 tram service travels from Westfield Shoppingtown - Airport West (at Matthews Avenue), then runs via Matthews Avenue, Keilor Road, Mount Alexander Road, Fletcher Street, Pascoe Vale Road, Mount Alexander Road, Flemington Road and then terminates at the corner of Elizabeth Street and Flinders Street, Flinders Street Station. Catch it at stop 53 on Keilor Road, Niddrie.

Seven bus routes also service the suburb:

[edit] Landmarks

The Niddrie Quarry was established in the 1940s to extract basalt for road paving from the vast lava plain that stretches from Melbourne to Mt Gambier. Quarry operations continued to 1975. Since 1975 local residents have waged a campaign against use of the quarry as a waste dump or for landfill. The site was eventually purchased by the Urban Land Corporation in November 2000 for development of new housing estates with the retention of the quarry as a lake. Currently the site is in the process of being redeveloped into a residential housing estate, which will also see the lake retained and redeveloped.

Steele Creek, complete with the Steele Creek Trail, runs through the suburb and is a tributary of the Maribyrnong River.

The often congested 'Tulla-Calder' interchange to the far east of the Niddrie area is now a new much needed realignment.

Also to the far east of Niddrie is a shopping center name Direct Factory Outlet (or DFO).

See also Airport West

[edit] Education

Within the area there are several schools including Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School, Niddrie Primary School, Niddrie High School, Essendon Keilor College, Keilor Heights Primary School, Niddrie Secondary College and St. Bernards College, St John Bosco's Primary. Niddrie is also home to the 3042 post code

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Niddrie (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
  2. ^ Niddrie, accessed 21 April 2008
  3. ^ City of Moonee Valley Gap Heritage Study Sep 2005, Volume 1: Thematic History and Datasheets for Heritage Precincts, part 1, p20
  4. ^ City of Moonee Valley Gap Heritage Study Sep 2005, Volume 1: Thematic History and Datasheets for Heritage Precincts, part 2, p1

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