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Encyclopedia > Hoddle Street, Melbourne

Hoddle Street is a busy arterial road in inner-eastern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was named after Robert Hoddle, architect of Melbourne's Hoddle Grid. The City of Melbournes coat of arms Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of 3,600,650 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 61,670 in the City of... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Governor HE Mr John Landy Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Area 237,629 km² (6th)  - Land 227,416 km²  - Water 10,213 km² (4. ... Robert Hoddle (20 April 1794 - 24 October 1881) was a surveyor of Port Phillip in the 1830s, and the creator of the Hoddle Grid in central Melbourne. ... The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets of the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ...


Hoddle Street runs 3.5 km north-south from Clifton Hill to Richmond where it becomes Punt Road (continuing south to Windsor). Clifton Hill is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Richmond is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Windsor is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. ...


The majority of Hoddle Street is a wide section (3 to 4 lanes in each direction) making up a portion of the Hoddle Highway. This section connects the Eastern Freeway and Punt Road to other arterial roads that feed into the Melbourne CBD. Hoddle Highway is an urban highway in Melbourne linking CityLink and the Eastern Freeway. ... Eastern Freeway is a Melbourne freeway linking eastern suburbs to the city. ... The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ...


In 1987, the northern end of Hoddle Street was the site of a deadly shooting spree known as the Hoddle Street massacre. The Hoddle Street Massacre is the name given to a tragedy that occurred on the evening of Sunday, August 9, 1987 in Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. ...


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Melbourne, Australia (847 words)
Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, lies in the southeast of the continent, straddling the Yarra River at the north end of Port Phillip Bay, which shelters it from the stormy Bass Strait.
Melbourne's Victorian roots are still visible, however, in the broad streets, the European trees and the 19th C. buildings which have been restored and refurbished in recent years, particularly in the inner suburbs.
The central area of Melbourne, on the right bank of the Yarra River, is in the form of a regular rectangle bounded on the south by Flinders Street, which runs parallel to the river, on the west by Spencer Street, on the north by Latrobe Street and on the east by Spring Street.
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