Niddrie, Victoria
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Niddrie is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
, 13 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district
. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley
. At the 2006 Census, Niddrie had a population of 4531.
Niddrie is bounded by the Calder Freeway
to the north, Steele Creek
to the west, Hoffmans Road to the east and Rosehill Road to the south.
Niddrie and the banks of the Maribyrnong River
were originally inhabited by the Wurundjeri
clan of the Kulin
Aboriginal nation.
Between 1843 and 1851, the Scottish
settler, Thomas Napier
(1802-1881) purchased the Keilor Road land covering Niddrie and Airport West
. In 1869, Napier sold this 249 acres (1 km²) land to Henry Stevenson (1810-1893). By 1871, Stevenson had built a house he named Niddrie, after his birthplace of Niddrie
, a suburb
of Edinburgh
, Scotland
. After his death in 1893 the property was transferred to his wife Elizabeth who sold it to Patrick Morgan eight years later.
Though not officially registered as a suburb until 26 May 1994 the Keilor Council
initiated this in 1955.
A Keilor East Post Office opened on 1 July 1947 and was renamed Niddrie around 1956. The Niddrie North office opened in 1960 though it was known as Airport West from 1974 until 1982.
travels from Westfield Shoppingtown
- Airport West
(at Matthews Avenue), then runs via Matthews Avenue, Keilor Road, Mount Alexander Road
, Fletcher Street, Pascoe Vale Road
, Mount Alexander Road, Flemington Road
and then terminates at the corner of Elizabeth Street
and Flinders Street
, Flinders Street Station
. Catch it at stop 53 on Keilor Road, Niddrie.
Seven bus routes also service the suburb.
. Quarry operations continued to 1975. Since 1975 local residents have waged a campaign against use of the quarry as a waste dump or for landfill. The site was eventually purchased by the Urban Land Corporation in November 2000 for development of new housing estates with the retention of the quarry as a lake. Currently the site is part way through the process of being redeveloped into a residential housing estate, which has seen the lake retained and redeveloped, and a number of small wetlands established along with newly planted native vegetation.
Steele Creek with the Steele Creek Trail
alongside runs through the suburb and is a tributary of the Maribyrnong River
.
The previously often congested 'Tulla-Calder' interchange to the immediate north of the Niddrie area now flow much easier at peak hours after a significant upgrade.
Also to the far east of Niddrie is a shopping centre named Direct Factory Outlet or DFO.
,
Niddrie Primary School, Essendon Keilor College
, Keilor Heights Primary School, Rosehill Secondary College
and St. Bernards College
. St John Bosco's Primary.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, 13 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district
Central business district
A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In North America this part of a city is commonly referred to as "downtown" or "city center"...
. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley
City of Moonee Valley
The City of Moonee Valley is a Local Government Area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprises the north-western suburbs between 3 and 13 kilometres from the Melbourne city centre...
. At the 2006 Census, Niddrie had a population of 4531.
Niddrie is bounded by the Calder Freeway
Calder Freeway
Calder Freeway is a freeway linking Melbourne to Ravenswood South in Victoria, Australia, superseding stretches of the Calder Highway. Originally just a short spur of the Tullamarine Freeway linking to the Calder Highway in Keilor in suburban Melbourne, it has been extended in phases to Ravenswood...
to the north, Steele Creek
Steele Creek Trail
The Steele Creek Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows Steele Creek in the inner northern suburb of Keilor East in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....
to the west, Hoffmans Road to the east and Rosehill Road to the south.
History
Maribyrnong river
The Maribyrnong River rises about 50 km north of Melbourne, Victoria , near Mount Macedon. It flows generally southward and combines with the Yarra River to flow into Port Phillip....
were originally inhabited by the Wurundjeri
Wurundjeri
The Wurundjeri are a people of the Indigenous Australian nation of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin alliance, who occupy the Birrarung Valley, its tributaries and the present location of Melbourne, Australia...
clan of the Kulin
Kulin
The Kulin nation, was an alliance of five Indigenous Australian nations in Central Victoria, Australia, prior to European settlement. Their collective territory extended to around Port Phillip and Western Port, up into the Great Dividing Range and the Loddon and Goulburn River valleys. To their...
Aboriginal nation.
Between 1843 and 1851, the Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
settler, Thomas Napier
Thomas Napier (philanthropist)
Thomas Napier was born in Scotland. He emigrating to the Australian Colonies in 1832, first to Van Diemen's Land and then later to the Port Phillip District . He was a builder and continued that trade in the colonies. He moved to Melbourne in 1837 less than two years after the first permanent...
(1802-1881) purchased the Keilor Road land covering Niddrie and Airport West
Airport West, Victoria
Airport West is a suburb 14 km north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley. At the 2006 Census, Airport West had a population of 6660....
. In 1869, Napier sold this 249 acres (1 km²) land to Henry Stevenson (1810-1893). By 1871, Stevenson had built a house he named Niddrie, after his birthplace of Niddrie
Niddrie, Edinburgh
This article is about Niddrie, a suburb of Edinburgh. See also: Longniddry, Niddry Castle.Niddrie is a suburb of south east Edinburgh, Scotland, UK...
, a suburb
Suburb
The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...
of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. After his death in 1893 the property was transferred to his wife Elizabeth who sold it to Patrick Morgan eight years later.
Though not officially registered as a suburb until 26 May 1994 the Keilor Council
City of Keilor
The City of Keilor was a Local Government Area located about northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1863 until 1994.-History:...
initiated this in 1955.
A Keilor East Post Office opened on 1 July 1947 and was renamed Niddrie around 1956. The Niddrie North office opened in 1960 though it was known as Airport West from 1974 until 1982.
Commerce
The main shopping centre is located on Keilor Road, Niddrie, which has a number of cafes and restaurants serving surrounding suburbs. The main industries of the suburb are construction (19%), property and business services (18%), retail trade (17%) and manufacturing (13%).Transport
Tram route 59Melbourne tram route 59
Tram route 59 is a public transport service in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs from the intersection of Flinders Street and Elizabeth Street in the city centre to Airport West in the north western suburbs....
travels from Westfield Shoppingtown
Westfield Airport West
Westfield Airport West is a shopping centre in the suburb of Airport West in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The centre hosts eight major stores, approximately 160 specialty stores including Village Cinemas. It is located on Louis Street, close to the Essendon Airport...
- Airport West
Airport West, Victoria
Airport West is a suburb 14 km north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley. At the 2006 Census, Airport West had a population of 6660....
(at Matthews Avenue), then runs via Matthews Avenue, Keilor Road, Mount Alexander Road
Mount Alexander Road, Melbourne
Mount Alexander Road is a major road in Melbourne's inner northern suburbs.It commences at the junction of Flemington Road and CityLink in the suburb of North Melbourne, proceeds North through Flemington forming the boundary between Flemington and Travancore, then forming the boundary between...
, Fletcher Street, Pascoe Vale Road
Pascoe Vale Road, Melbourne
Pascoe Vale Road is a major thoroughfare through the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne continuing to the outer northern suburbs. It runs in the South from its junction with Mount Alexander Road at Moonee Ponds Junction and continues North through the suburbs of Moonee Ponds, Essendon, Strathmore,...
, Mount Alexander Road, Flemington Road
Flemington Road, Melbourne
Flemington Road is a major thoroughfare in the inner suburbs of North Melbourne and Parkville in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs from the north end of Elizabeth Street to the south end of Mount Alexander Road, Flemington, and provides a main connection between the Melbourne CBD and the...
and then terminates at the corner of Elizabeth Street
Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
Elizabeth Street is one of the main north-south streets in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia, part of the Hoddle Grid laid out in 1837.- Geography :...
and Flinders Street
Flinders Street, Melbourne
Flinders Street is a notable street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Running roughly parallel to the Yarra River, Flinders Street forms the southern edge of the Hoddle Grid. It is exactly one mile in length and one and half chains in width...
, Flinders Street Station
Flinders Street Station
Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets next to the Yarra River in the heart of the city, stretching from Swanston Street to Queen Street and covering two city...
. Catch it at stop 53 on Keilor Road, Niddrie.
Seven bus routes also service the suburb.
Landmarks
The Niddrie Quarry was established in the 1940s to extract basalt for road paving from the vast lava plain that stretches from Melbourne to Mount GambierMount Gambier, South Australia
Mount Gambier is the largest regional city in South Australia located approximately 450 kilometres south of the capital Adelaide and just 17 kilometres from the Victorian border....
. Quarry operations continued to 1975. Since 1975 local residents have waged a campaign against use of the quarry as a waste dump or for landfill. The site was eventually purchased by the Urban Land Corporation in November 2000 for development of new housing estates with the retention of the quarry as a lake. Currently the site is part way through the process of being redeveloped into a residential housing estate, which has seen the lake retained and redeveloped, and a number of small wetlands established along with newly planted native vegetation.
Steele Creek with the Steele Creek Trail
Steele Creek Trail
The Steele Creek Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows Steele Creek in the inner northern suburb of Keilor East in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....
alongside runs through the suburb and is a tributary of the Maribyrnong River
Maribyrnong river
The Maribyrnong River rises about 50 km north of Melbourne, Victoria , near Mount Macedon. It flows generally southward and combines with the Yarra River to flow into Port Phillip....
.
The previously often congested 'Tulla-Calder' interchange to the immediate north of the Niddrie area now flow much easier at peak hours after a significant upgrade.
Also to the far east of Niddrie is a shopping centre named Direct Factory Outlet or DFO.
Education
Within the area there are several schools including Penleigh and Essendon Grammar SchoolPenleigh and Essendon Grammar School
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School is an independent, Uniting Church, co-educational school, with campuses located in Essendon, Moonee Ponds and Keilor East in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....
,
Niddrie Primary School, Essendon Keilor College
Essendon Keilor College
Essendon Keilor College was founded in 1992 from the amalgamation of Queens Park Secondary College , Essendon High School, Niddrie High School and Keilor Heights Secondary College....
, Keilor Heights Primary School, Rosehill Secondary College
Rosehill Secondary College
Rosehill Secondary College is located in Niddrie, Victoria, Australia. It was established as Niddrie Technical College, a single-building all boys school, in 1959. The school has been co-educational since the early 1990s and how has a gender ratio of 60% male and 40% female students...
and St. Bernards College
St. Bernard's College, Melbourne
St. Bernard's College is a Roman Catholic Independent school for boys located in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon. The College is named after its patron saint, Bernard of Clairvaux, and is a member of the Associated Catholic Colleges.-History:...
. St John Bosco's Primary.
See also
- City of KeilorCity of KeilorThe City of Keilor was a Local Government Area located about northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1863 until 1994.-History:...
- the former local government area of which Niddrie was a part. - Jane Thurgood-DoveJane Thurgood-DoveJane Thurgood-Dove was the victim of a brutal murder in Niddrie, Victoria, Australia in 1997. On 6 November 1997, she was confronted in the driveway of her suburban Melbourne home and shot repeatedly in the head and body as her three young children, aged 3, 5 and 10, cowered inside her car.The...
- was the victim of a brutal and much publicised murder in Niddrie in 1997 - Electoral district of NiddrieElectoral district of NiddrieThe Electoral district of Niddrie is a metropolitan electorate approximately 8 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, Australia in Victoria's Legislative Assembly....