PAKENHAM / PAKENHAM SOUTH / PAKENHAM UPPER
Pakenham is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 56 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Cardinia. At the 2006 Census, Pakenham had a population of 19,644. Pakenham is in some aspects still considered as a regional suburb. It was named after Sir Edward Pakenham, a British general who fought in the Peninsular War. Pakenham Post Office opened on 1 February 1859; Pakenham Railway Station Post Office opened on 11 June 1888 and was renamed Pakenham East in 1908.
PANTON HILL
Panton Hill is a mainly rural locality 32 km. north-east of Central Melbourne. It was named after Joseph Anderson Panton, Commissioner for the Anderson's Creek and other goldfields and later magistrate at Heidelberg. During time off from his magisterial duties he mapped the Yarra Valley (approx. 1862). In so doing he named Panton Hill, which had previously been Kingstown, a name shared with other places and a cause of some confusion.
Panton Hill was established as a goldfield in 1859 in the area generally called the Caledonia Diggings (1855). Its northern neighbour, Queenstown, is now St. Andrews. By the end of the 1860s the goldfield became less profitable and miners turned to farming. Several introduced viticulture and orchards to Panton Hill. A primary school was opened in 1865, and by 1880 there were two hotels and a Church of England. A mechanics' institute was opened in 1901. The railway extension from Heidelberg to Hurstbridge in 1912 provided quicker access for fruit-growers to the Melbourne markets.
PARK ORCHARDS
Park Orchards is a 23 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Manningham. At the 2006 Census, Park Orchards had a population of 3590. The circular design of the central area of Park Orchards was designed by Walter Burley Griffin who is best known in Australia for designing the layout of the capital, Canberra. The name was first used when the land which had been used for orchards was first subdivided for residential development.
PARKDALE
Parkdale is a residential suburb 23 km. south-east of Melbourne, occupying parts of the Mordialloc and Mentone postcode areas. It was named after W. Parker, an early landowner in the area, and was given when the Victorian Railways opened the station in 1920. Most early residential development favoured the area between the beach and the railway line. By 1933 there were over twenty-five shops near the railway station, mostly in Como Parade. In 1923 there had been about five shops. During the early postwar years residential subdivisions moved away from the beach and the railway station.
Parkville
PARKVILLE
Parkville, a residential suburb in three parts with Royal Park at its centre, is 4 km. north of Melbourne. On its west is North Melbourne and on its east is Carlton. Parkville is situated on a plateau with relatively shallow soils, which made it suitable for grazing but not agriculture. As the plateau is mostly mudstone or non-basaltic material it has not been wanted for quarrying, unlike Brunswick to its immediate north. In about 1845 a reservation for a park or open space was approved by the Governor of New South Wales (after a request for a smaller area by the Melbourne Town Council), extending from North Melbourne to Carlton and comprising 1,036 ha.
The population increases after the gold rushes resulted in severances from the reservation for urban growth, and Royal Park of about 283 ha. was proclaimed. In time further severances occurred: 1858, for an experimental farm of 575 ha. in the north-west: 1861, for a zoological garden of 20 ha., for the Acclimatization Society in the middle of Royal Park; 1868, three areas for houses, forming Parkville North, South and West; and 1875, a further area enlarging Parkville South from Park Drive to Gatehouse Street, which enclosed a watercourse which later formed the linear Ievers Reserve.
Parkville South is the largest of the three residential areas, and before its 1861 severance it included land and a showground used by the Port Phillip Farmers Association and Melbourne council markets for horses, pigs and cattle and for hay and corn. The pastoral activity at the south end and the model farm at the north end were linked by grazing and agistment over Royal Park which lasted until the 1920s, keeping up to four dairies going in Parkville.
PARLIAMENT
Parliament is the name of an underground railway station in the suburban train network. It is one of five stations (and one of three underground) on the City Loop, which encircles the central business district. The station services Melbourne's government district, and is underneath the Parliament House of Victoria and the intersection of busy Bourke Street with Spring Street, at the eastern end of the CBD.
PASCOE VALE
A residential area, west of Coburg, between 7 km. and 11 km. north of Melbourne. It is named after Pascoeville, the property owed by John Pascoe Fawkner and bounded approximately by the Moonee Ponds Creek, Gaffney Street, Northumberland Road and the western prolongation of Boundary Road. Fawkner acquired the property in 1839 as one of eleven lots in the subdivision of the Coburg district by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle. In 1885 the Pascoe Vale railway station was built at the cost of the subdividers, and had a country rail timetable, the suburban service ending at Essendon. That was the westerly edge of the present Pascoe Vale. Well beyond Pascoe Vale's eastern edge was Coburg North with its railway line. The space in between was not filled by housing until the 1950s. Apart from the infrequency of trains the problems of unmade roads, unreticulated utilities and no sewerage deterred house builders. A primary school was not opened until 1911. On 26 June, 1927, the tram service along Melville Road to Bell Street, Pascoe Vale South, was opened, terminating at the main neighbourhood shopping centre for the area. Pascoe Vale's census population in 1921 was 348, and any substantial increase awaited post-war immigration and residential expansion.
THE PATCH
The Patch is a mainly rural locality, 40 km. east-south-east of Melbourne, next to the east side of the Sherbrooke Forest. In the 1860s a timber-getter felled a stand of black-butts for palings, and the cleared area ten years later was found to be a grassed patch of land. It was named The Patch. A part of Monbulk has come under the locality now considered to be The Patch.
Farming selections became available in the 1890s, many coming under berry production. A post office was opened in 1897. Berry growing supplied the Monbulk jam factory as well as metropolitan markets. The Anglican church was not built until 1934, the community hall in the 1950s and the primary school in 1983-4. The hall is near the post office, the general store and the school. The Patch contains area previously known as Coonan and Fairy Dell. Its census population in 1933 was 88 and in 1947 it was 195. It remains a small township and scenic area.
Patterson station
PATTERSON
Patterson is a railway station located in the suburb of Bentleigh on the Frankston railway line. Patterson station opened on May 28, 1961.
PATTERSON LAKES
Patterson Lakes is a residential suburb 32 km. south-east of Melbourne beside the Patterson River, upstream from where it discharges into Port Phillip Bay at Carrum. The "Patterson River" is a man-made drain through the former Carrum Swamp, named after J.B. Patterson, Minister for Public Works, who was involved with the project. Carrum is situated on a coastal dune system behind which was low-lying swampy ground either side of the "Patterson River". In the early 1970s a development company acquired 324 ha. of wetland south of the river and designed a raised residential estate set in man-made lakes or canals. Although the development has been less than originally planned, the Lakeview shopping centre and the National Water Sports Centre in neighbouring Bangholme have made the area more than just a dormitory suburb. A primary school was opened and St. Leonard's College (Brighton) established a second campus next to the Water Sports Centre in 1987. Some allotments without lakeside access were developed by the Housing Commission.
Pakenham is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 56 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Cardinia. At the 2006 Census, Pakenham had a population of 19,644. Pakenham is in some aspects still considered as a regional suburb. It was named after Sir Edward Pakenham, a British general who fought in the Peninsular War. Pakenham Post Office opened on 1 February 1859; Pakenham Railway Station Post Office opened on 11 June 1888 and was renamed Pakenham East in 1908.
PANTON HILL
Panton Hill is a mainly rural locality 32 km. north-east of Central Melbourne. It was named after Joseph Anderson Panton, Commissioner for the Anderson's Creek and other goldfields and later magistrate at Heidelberg. During time off from his magisterial duties he mapped the Yarra Valley (approx. 1862). In so doing he named Panton Hill, which had previously been Kingstown, a name shared with other places and a cause of some confusion.
Panton Hill was established as a goldfield in 1859 in the area generally called the Caledonia Diggings (1855). Its northern neighbour, Queenstown, is now St. Andrews. By the end of the 1860s the goldfield became less profitable and miners turned to farming. Several introduced viticulture and orchards to Panton Hill. A primary school was opened in 1865, and by 1880 there were two hotels and a Church of England. A mechanics' institute was opened in 1901. The railway extension from Heidelberg to Hurstbridge in 1912 provided quicker access for fruit-growers to the Melbourne markets.
PARK ORCHARDS
Park Orchards is a 23 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Manningham. At the 2006 Census, Park Orchards had a population of 3590. The circular design of the central area of Park Orchards was designed by Walter Burley Griffin who is best known in Australia for designing the layout of the capital, Canberra. The name was first used when the land which had been used for orchards was first subdivided for residential development.
PARKDALE
Parkdale is a residential suburb 23 km. south-east of Melbourne, occupying parts of the Mordialloc and Mentone postcode areas. It was named after W. Parker, an early landowner in the area, and was given when the Victorian Railways opened the station in 1920. Most early residential development favoured the area between the beach and the railway line. By 1933 there were over twenty-five shops near the railway station, mostly in Como Parade. In 1923 there had been about five shops. During the early postwar years residential subdivisions moved away from the beach and the railway station.
Parkville
PARKVILLE
Parkville, a residential suburb in three parts with Royal Park at its centre, is 4 km. north of Melbourne. On its west is North Melbourne and on its east is Carlton. Parkville is situated on a plateau with relatively shallow soils, which made it suitable for grazing but not agriculture. As the plateau is mostly mudstone or non-basaltic material it has not been wanted for quarrying, unlike Brunswick to its immediate north. In about 1845 a reservation for a park or open space was approved by the Governor of New South Wales (after a request for a smaller area by the Melbourne Town Council), extending from North Melbourne to Carlton and comprising 1,036 ha.
The population increases after the gold rushes resulted in severances from the reservation for urban growth, and Royal Park of about 283 ha. was proclaimed. In time further severances occurred: 1858, for an experimental farm of 575 ha. in the north-west: 1861, for a zoological garden of 20 ha., for the Acclimatization Society in the middle of Royal Park; 1868, three areas for houses, forming Parkville North, South and West; and 1875, a further area enlarging Parkville South from Park Drive to Gatehouse Street, which enclosed a watercourse which later formed the linear Ievers Reserve.
Parkville South is the largest of the three residential areas, and before its 1861 severance it included land and a showground used by the Port Phillip Farmers Association and Melbourne council markets for horses, pigs and cattle and for hay and corn. The pastoral activity at the south end and the model farm at the north end were linked by grazing and agistment over Royal Park which lasted until the 1920s, keeping up to four dairies going in Parkville.
PARLIAMENT
Parliament is the name of an underground railway station in the suburban train network. It is one of five stations (and one of three underground) on the City Loop, which encircles the central business district. The station services Melbourne's government district, and is underneath the Parliament House of Victoria and the intersection of busy Bourke Street with Spring Street, at the eastern end of the CBD.
PASCOE VALE
A residential area, west of Coburg, between 7 km. and 11 km. north of Melbourne. It is named after Pascoeville, the property owed by John Pascoe Fawkner and bounded approximately by the Moonee Ponds Creek, Gaffney Street, Northumberland Road and the western prolongation of Boundary Road. Fawkner acquired the property in 1839 as one of eleven lots in the subdivision of the Coburg district by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle. In 1885 the Pascoe Vale railway station was built at the cost of the subdividers, and had a country rail timetable, the suburban service ending at Essendon. That was the westerly edge of the present Pascoe Vale. Well beyond Pascoe Vale's eastern edge was Coburg North with its railway line. The space in between was not filled by housing until the 1950s. Apart from the infrequency of trains the problems of unmade roads, unreticulated utilities and no sewerage deterred house builders. A primary school was not opened until 1911. On 26 June, 1927, the tram service along Melville Road to Bell Street, Pascoe Vale South, was opened, terminating at the main neighbourhood shopping centre for the area. Pascoe Vale's census population in 1921 was 348, and any substantial increase awaited post-war immigration and residential expansion.
THE PATCH
The Patch is a mainly rural locality, 40 km. east-south-east of Melbourne, next to the east side of the Sherbrooke Forest. In the 1860s a timber-getter felled a stand of black-butts for palings, and the cleared area ten years later was found to be a grassed patch of land. It was named The Patch. A part of Monbulk has come under the locality now considered to be The Patch.
Farming selections became available in the 1890s, many coming under berry production. A post office was opened in 1897. Berry growing supplied the Monbulk jam factory as well as metropolitan markets. The Anglican church was not built until 1934, the community hall in the 1950s and the primary school in 1983-4. The hall is near the post office, the general store and the school. The Patch contains area previously known as Coonan and Fairy Dell. Its census population in 1933 was 88 and in 1947 it was 195. It remains a small township and scenic area.
Patterson station
PATTERSON
Patterson is a railway station located in the suburb of Bentleigh on the Frankston railway line. Patterson station opened on May 28, 1961.
PATTERSON LAKES
Patterson Lakes is a residential suburb 32 km. south-east of Melbourne beside the Patterson River, upstream from where it discharges into Port Phillip Bay at Carrum. The "Patterson River" is a man-made drain through the former Carrum Swamp, named after J.B. Patterson, Minister for Public Works, who was involved with the project. Carrum is situated on a coastal dune system behind which was low-lying swampy ground either side of the "Patterson River". In the early 1970s a development company acquired 324 ha. of wetland south of the river and designed a raised residential estate set in man-made lakes or canals. Although the development has been less than originally planned, the Lakeview shopping centre and the National Water Sports Centre in neighbouring Bangholme have made the area more than just a dormitory suburb. A primary school was opened and St. Leonard's College (Brighton) established a second campus next to the Water Sports Centre in 1987. Some allotments without lakeside access were developed by the Housing Commission.