Talk:List of Melbourne suburbs

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This page was split from the List of localities (Victoria) page, which now deals with regional Victoria only.

"Centre" of a suburb: help with adjacency table

Where, in general, would you say the 'centre' of a Melbourne suburb was?

I am thinking, if it has a train station, then the train station could be reasonably indicated to be the centre of the place.

Otherwise it tends to take a lot of looking, which for places like Lilydale, Croydon, Montrose, Kilsyth and Ringwood (all of which I have done adjacency tables) is hard to do.

Now I am also thinking that every Melbourne suburb has a town hall: well, the majority of them do.

Without this, some of them are turning out to be arrant nonsense.

Thank you, EuropracBHIT 06:22, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC).

Not every suburb, in fact, probably the majority, do not have train stations at all, and some have more than one. And certainly not every suburb has a town hall; there are only two dozen or so in the city (LGAs have town halls). How is it nonsense to figure out which suburbs share boundaries in each direction, exactly? TPK 02:04, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

And even when they do, railway stations are not necessarily centrally located. I guess to find the centre...just look in the Melways. Heh.

I think the suburb adjacency tables are a good idea, anyway. Ambivalenthysteria 04:31, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Traditionally, the centre of a town (or suburb) is its post-office. For example road signs with the number of kilometers away a town are measured from the PO. PO are marked in Melways, so you shouldn't have too much trouble finding it. Good Luck! -- Glenn 07:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Docklands

Isn't Docklands now a Local Government Area in itself? That's certainly how it looks in the Melways. Ted BJ 06:54, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It certainly is. Albeit a minor one. I'm unsure as to how it would be listed, so I'll leave it to someone more knowledgeable.Snippet1 00:43, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Docklands is not it's own LGA, or part of any LGA, but is currently administed by VicUrban, the state government's land-development body. It will revert sometime in the future to the City of Melbourne (which previously administered the bulk of the land, to my knowledge). TPK 10:13, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Extensive table of Melbourne suburbs added

An extensive table of Melbourne suburbs has been added at List of Melbourne suburbs/table, based on the suburbs you currently have listed. The quick primer on using it is this: Ideally everything in columns 1, 2, 5, and 6 should be blue; and everything in columns 3 and 4 should either be red, or if it is blue it should be checked to make sure that it is either a redirect page, or a disambig page that includes a link to the Melbourne suburb of the same name, or includes a "see also" link to the Melbourne suburb of that name. Hope this is useful to you! -- All the best, Nickj (t) 04:25, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Are these actually suburbs of Melbourne?

I refer to most of the listings in the Shire of Cardinia and Shire of Mornington. Both shires no doubt border Melbourne Greater but the actual towns (eg. Koo Wee Rup, Lang Lang, Rosebud etc) are surrounded by farmland and in my opinion don't qualify as suburbs. --Mopes 08:50, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mornington Peninsula Shire towns are suburbs?

I agree, and i'd like to add that i don't believe Mornington is a suburb of Melbourne. There is a distinct rural gap between residential Mount Eliza and residential Mornington. This list is quite off the mark as far as Peninsula towns are concerned. It is absurd to say that towns such as Red Hill, Shoreham, Main Ridge, Flinders etc are suburban Melbourne. Most Peninsula towns on Westernport are rural and have town centres, Hastings being the largest. But most of the Hastings area is rural. The centre of the town of Merricks is a general store, hardly suburban. If it is distance from the centre of Melbourne which is the criteria for suburban staus then Geelong should be a Melbourne suburb, rather than Portsea which is about 25 Km farther from Melbourne.

Pakenham

The Pakenham article says "The town is named after Sir Edward Pakenham, a British general who fought in the Peninsular War." Perhaps more famously, he was the Commander of the British North American Army and died in the Battle of New Orleans (and is mentioned in the American folk song "The Battle of New Orleans"). I am a complete newbie here, perhaps someone could edit the Pakenham article to hyperlink to the biographic article? {Sorry - I just noticed that it already does...my bad}