| Maidstone Melbourne, Victoria |
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Maribyrnong River |
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| Population: | 6050 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Established: | 1840s | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3012 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 3.2 km² (1.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 8 km (5 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Maribyrnong | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Footscray | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Gellibrand | ||||||||||||
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Maidstone is a suburb 8 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the 2006 Census, Maidstone had a population of 6050.
Maidstone is a suburb of the City of Maribyrnong, located 8 km from the Melbourne CBD, bordered by West Footscray to the South on Suffolk Street, Braybrook to the west on Ashley St, Footscray to the east along Summerhill and Rosamond Roads and Maribyrnong to the north and north-east along Williamson Road and Rosamond Road.
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Maidstone was established in 1858. It was given the name of the town of Maidstone in Kent as it is close to Footscray which was named after Foots Cray, another town formerly in Kent.
Maidstone Post Office opened on 1 October 1858 and closed in 1986.[2]
Maidstone was predominantly made up of period weatherboard, brick Art Deco and Californian Bungalow houses constructed between the 1920s and 1940s. Concrete houses built in the late 1940s to house the families of returned servicemen from World War II are also found. From the early 1990s many old factory sites in Maidstone have been turned into new housing estates comprising hundreds of houses and townhouses. Maidstones recent development boost, good public transport availability and close proximity to the CBD has also seen the median house price escalate dramatically over the past 10 years.
Maidstone boasts many sports clubs. The list of clubs include the following;
Golfers play at the course of the Medway Golf Club on Omar Street.[3]
Tram route 57 tram provides public transport from Flinders Street Station in the city to Cordite Avenue, West Maribyrnong, on the border of Maidstone, while tram route 82 tram provides public transport from Moonee Ponds (Ascot Vale Road / Puckle Street) to Footscray (Leeds Street / Irving Street) passing through Maidstone for a segment of its journey. It is one of very few Melbourne tram routes which do not travel through the Melbourne CBD.
West Footscray and Tottenham train stations are the closest to Maidstone but many residents catch the bus to Footscray station.
A number of different buses pass through the Maidstone.
The Maribyrnong River Trail connects cyclists to the Footscray Road off-road path and into the Docklands and Melbourne CBD.
Many native species exist along the Maribyrnong River. Some species thrive in the area and often journey up and down river from Brimbank Park (5 km up river from Maidstone). The most abundant are;
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