| Ripponlea Melbourne, Victoria |
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Edwardian shopfronts at Ripponlea village, Glen Eira Road |
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Ripponlea
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| Population: | 1379 (2006 Census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3183 and 3185 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 0.3 km² (0.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 9 km (6 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Port Phillip | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Caulfield | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Melbourne Ports | ||||||||||||
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Ripponlea is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is centered on the intersection of Glen Eira Road and Hotham Street, in the municipality of City of Port Phillip. In terms of its cadastral division, Ripponlea is in the parish of Prahran within the County of Bourke. As of the 2006 Census, the population has 1,379 people.
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The suburb is named after Rippon Lea Estate. After the death of Frederick Sargood in 1903, the estate's original owner, some of his property was subdivided to form the current suburb of Ripponlea.
Since 1909, Ripponlea has been the site of Caulfield Grammar School's senior school. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Ripponlea television studios were built in 1954 on land compulsorily acquired from the Rippon Lea Estate by the Victorian state government.
Ripponlea has the Ripponlea railway station located on the Sandringham line.
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