| Campbellfield Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 5,401 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3061 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 12.4 km² (4.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 16 km (10 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Hume | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Broadmeadows | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Calwell | ||||||||||||
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Campbellfield is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Campbellfield had a population of 5,401.
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The first Campbellfield Post Office was open briefly in 1854. It reopened on June 1, 1856 and closed in 1893, replaced by the Campbellfield Railway Station office. This, in turn, was renamed Campbellfield around 1903. [2]
Campbellfield is home to Victoria's oldest church. The Scots church was built on Sydney Road in 1842, and replaced by the present blue stone structure in 1855. It was placed on the National Estate and Victorian Heritage Register, and has been an icon of Victorian history.
Campbellfield is currently home to the Ford Australia factory on Sydney Road. Built in 1959, it is where the current Falcon and Territory is manufactured.
Campbellfield is also an industrial and business suburb, with the Somerton Park Industrial Estate and National Business Park located in the suburb, as well as various industrial areas and the Metrolink business hub on Cooper Street.
The suburb has only one primary school. Campbellfield Heights Primary School is located at Waratah and Mason Street's, in the Somerset Estate. There is currently no secondary college in the suburb.
Shopping and Commerce wise, the suburb has the small Campbellfield Plaza, which has a K Mart discount store, a Coles supermarket and an Officeworks. There is also the large Pipeworks Fun Market on Mahoneys Road, and take-away restaurants McDonald's, Red Rooster and Hungry Jack's located along Sydney Road. Continued development has seen the site of Chris and Marie's Plant Farm and a Mitre 10 MEGA opening on the western side of Sydney Road, which closed in March 2009 due to the building having structural problems,[3] and reopened in 2011 as furniture store Super A-Mart. Campbellfield is also home to Olympic Fitness Equipment..
In November 2010, it was announced that Swedish company IKEA will build its biggest Australian store in Campbellfield, on the site of the Pipeworks Market.[4]
Melbourne bus routes 530, 531, 532, 538, 540, and 902 service the area.
Railway stations that are nearest to Campbellfield are Upfield station on the Upfield line, located in nearby Upfield, and Broadmeadows station, on the Craigieburn line. Campbellfield once had a railway station, however it closed in 1956 for the newly formed Upfield Station, which was located in a position more accessible to the community.
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