Newington is a suburb south west of Ballarat

Ballarat, Victoria

Ballarat is a city in the state of Victoria, Australia, approximately west-north-west of the state capital Melbourne situated on the lower plains of the Great Dividing Range and the Yarrowee River catchment. It is the largest inland centre and third most populous city in the state and the fifth...

, Victoria, Australia

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. The population at the 2006 census was 1,747.

Newington is bordered by Gillies Street to the West, Sturt Street to the North, Pleasant Street to the East and Winter Street to the South

Newington is notable for Victoria Park, Ballarat's largest open parkland which features numerous sporting grounds connected by grand avenues of conifers and oaks planted in the 1920s as well as some ornamental wetlands and lakes.

With the exception of the park and schools, the suburb consists almost solely of Single-family detached homes in grid plan

Grid plan

The grid plan, grid street plan or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid...

street layout. Many of the homes are either Victorian or interwar styles.