11 Facts About Hawthorn Victoria

1.

Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn Victoria, is designated as one of 82 Major Activity Centres in the Melbourne 2030 Metropolitan Strategy.

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2.

Hawthorn Victoria is the home of Swinburne University of Technology, which offers university and TAFE courses.

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3.

Hawthorn Victoria is particularly noted for the number, range and quality of its restaurants, many of which reflect the strong ethnic diversity of the region.

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4.

Hawthorn Victoria citizens have access to nearby synagogues in Kew, East Kew and Doncaster and a mosque in Doncaster.

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5.

Hawthorn Victoria was originally a brick-making area and many of its parks are on the sites of former quarries, which were filled-in by them becoming tips and then parkland.

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6.

Hawthorn Victoria is serviced by two railway stations; Hawthorn Victoria and Glenferrie.

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7.

Grace Park Estate, Hawthorn Victoria is located on a gently-sloping site in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and contains a residential subdivision to the north and public gardens and sporting facilities to the south.

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8.

Probably Hawthorn Victoria's oldest and most famous house, built of bluestone in 1845 for James Denham Pinnock, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, before there was a bridge across the river.

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9.

Hawthorn Victoria's property stretched from Church Street to the river, between Denham Street and Lawes Street and was subdivided circa 1850.

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10.

Hawthorn Victoria's contacted the historical society about names of Hawthorn streets.

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11.

Christ Church Hawthorn Victoria, designed by Charles Vickers, is heritage listed by the National Trust of Australia.

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