Parkdale, Victoria
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| Parkdale Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 10,618 (2006) [1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3194 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 3.6 km² (1.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $500,001 [2] | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 24 km (15 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Kingston | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Mordialloc | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Isaacs | ||||||||||||
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Parkdale is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Kingston and has a population of a little over 10,000 people. Parkdale has two post codes: 3195 and 3194.
Parkdale was founded in 1920, and named for early homesteader William Parker when engineers decided to build a railway station alongside a cluster of five bayside shops 23km south of Melbourne.
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In 1958 Parkdale was chosen as the site of one of Victoria’s first drive-in shopping centres; Thrift Park. Thrift Park is being rebuilt in 2009.
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[edit] Education
- Parkdale Primary School
- Parktone Primary School
- St. John Vianney's
- Parkdale Secondary College (technically, PSC is located in the adjacent suburb of Mordialloc)
[edit] Transport
- Bus-708,811,812 and 700
- Train-Parkdale Station is located on the Frankston Line.Zone 2
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Parkdale (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
- ^ Parkdale, accessed 9 August 2007
[edit] External links
- Parkdale, Victoria is at coordinates Coordinates:
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