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| Population: | 6394 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Established: | 1860s | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3181 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 1 km² (0.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 7 km (4 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
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| State District: | Prahran | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Higgins | ||||||||||||
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Windsor is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington and the City of Port Phillip. At the 2006 Census, Windsor had a population of 6394.
Windsor is bounded by Dandenong Road, St Kilda Road, Williams Road and High Street.
It is often incorrectly referred to as Prahran, Windsor's northern neighbour. In the past, Windsor was within the City of Prahran's boundaries, and many institutions still refer to this.
Windsor was named after Windsor, Berkshire.
Known at first as Prahran South, its name was changed to Windsor in 1891.
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A Windsor Post Office opened in 1856, but was renamed St Kilda in 1858. The Windsor Post Office in the area opened in 1886.[2]
In 2005, research by the consulting firms Tract Consultants and ACIL Tasman (and reported by The Age) ranked Windsor 9th out of 150 Melbourne suburbs in terms of "liveability". Windsor scored a perfect "5" in 8 of the 14 categories used to compare suburbs; however, it scored a zero in important areas including "Crime", "Traffic Congestion" and "Open Space".
Although Stonnington's smallest suburb, Windsor has its own bank, along with a growing number of independent clothing stores, fast food outlets, bars, lounges and cafés.
Windsor contains a diverse mix of housing including medium density apartments, Victorian terrace housing, hi-rise public housing towers and semi-detached cottages.
The Prahran campus of Swinburne University is located just south of High Street in Windsor.
The painkiller Aspro was invented by the chemist George Nicholas in Windsor.[3] Nuttelex margarine is manufactured in Windsor.
Melbourne's famous Chapel Street shopping strip bisects Windsor, and the Windsor end is seen as being the more bohemian, less expensive end of the street, although as development continues, the Windsor end of Chapel Street is becoming highly sought-after real estate, many of the smaller retro-type clothing and vintage stores making way for new venues and some chain restaurants.
The suburb has many landmarks including the historic Presentation Convent (now a secondary school), the Stonnington Primary School, old post office, Telstra exchange tower and a campus of Swinburne University. In recent times, the large Empire Cinemas, converted into a nightclub were gutted by fire before eventually being demolished and replaced by high-rise apartments, also named the Empire.
The remains of one side of Punt Road at the Windsor end contains one of Windsor's lesser shopping strips called Little Windsor on Punt.
The suburb also features stunning new design, including the award winning Windsor Fire station by architects Edmund and Corrigan. In Raleigh street is the K2 apartments, Sustainable architecture built in 2006 to the design of Hansen Yuncken features passive solar design, recycled and sustainable materials, photovoltaic cells, wastewater treatment, rainwater collection and solar hot water.
There are many remaining hotels in the suburb, including the popular Windsor Castle and Pint on Punt.
Windsor is serviced by a number of trams along Dandenong Road, High Street and Chapel Street, and the Sandringham railway line takes commuters from Windsor Station to the CBD in around 7 minutes.
Punt Road is one of the main bus thoroughfares in Melbourne and passes through the western side of the suburb.
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