Wonga Park Melbourne, Victoria
Yarra River, Wonga Park
Population:	3505 (2006 Census)
Postcode:	3115
Area:	9.1 km²
Property Value:	AUD $600,000 [1]
Location:	35 km from Melbourne
LGA:	City of Manningham
State District:	Evelyn
Federal Division:	Menzies
Suburbs around Wonga Park North Warrandyte Kangaroo Ground Bend of Islands Warrandyte Wonga Park Chirnside Park Warrandyte South Croydon Hills Croydon North

Wonga Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Manningham. Wonga Park is an outer suburban locality 35 km east-north-east of Melbourne, between the southern bank of the Yarra River and Croydon North. The name comes from the Wonga Park grazing property, which itself derives from Simon Wonga elder of the Wurundjeri indigenous people of Melbourne. The area was part of Mooroolbark until the 1890s. This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... “VIC” redirects here. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 799 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1332 × 1000 pixel, file size: 535 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Australian postcodes have four digits; envelopes for posting from Australia reflect this. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... ISO 4217 Code AUD User(s) Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island Inflation 2. ... ‹ The template below (Unit of length) is being considered for deletion. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... Municipalities of Greater Melbourne City of Banyule City of Bayside City of Boroondara City of Brimbank Shire of Cardinia City of Casey City of Darebin City of Frankston City of Glen Eira City of Greater Dandenong City of Hobsons Bay City of Hume City of Kingston City of Knox City... The City of Manningham is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... State Electoral District is a term used to refer to a voting area within Australian states. ... The Electoral district of Evelyn is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly covering the urban fringe north east of Melbourne. ... The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... The Division of Menzies is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. ... This is a list of Municipalities and their suburbs and townships in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, in the State of Victoria, Australia. ... North Warrandyte is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Kangaroo Ground is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Bend of Islands is a locality north-east of Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia, and is located on the north bank of the Yarra River near the town of Yarra Glen. ... Warrandyte is an outlying semi-rural suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 27km east-north-east of the Melbourne central business district. ... Chirnside Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Warrandyte South is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31km east-north-east of Melbourne. ... Croydon Hills is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Croydon North is home to the cripple and is a suburb located to the east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... “VIC” redirects here. ... Municipalities of Greater Melbourne City of Banyule City of Bayside City of Boroondara City of Brimbank Shire of Cardinia City of Casey City of Darebin City of Frankston City of Glen Eira City of Greater Dandenong City of Hobsons Bay City of Hume City of Kingston City of Knox City... The City of Manningham is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... Simon Wonga,b?-d. ... The Wurundjeri are Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who occupied what is now Melbourne, Australia prior to European settlement of the area. ... Languages Several hundred indigenous Australian languages (many extinct or nearly so), Australian English, Australian Aboriginal English, Torres Strait Creole, Kriol Religions Primarily Christian, with minorities of other religions including various forms of Traditional belief systems based around the Dreamtime Related ethnic groups see List of Indigenous Australian group names Indigenous... Mooroolbark is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

In 1889 the Wonga Park property came into the hands of an insurance company and, along with other holdings, the land was sold by the Wonga Park Land Co. Four years later, when small settlements were a way of relieving unemployment after the failure of the land boom, about twenty members of an Eight Hours Pioneer Memorial Association took up small holdings on a former timber reserve. They succeeded in having a primary school opened in 1895, first called Warrandyte East, but Wonga Park in 1898. The area was a mixture of orchards and grazing properties and timbered land. Most smaller properties had been started with income from firewood that came from clearing the land.

One of the grazing properties, Yarra Brae, was acquired by the Hon. L. Clifford in 1940. After being a war-time army training area, Clifford made it available for Australia's first Pan Pacific Scout Jamboree in 1948. Clifford Park also hosted jamborees during the 1950s.

In 1972 Yarra Brae was the site of a proposed lower Yarra River reservoir, but residents of the nearby Bend of Isles bushland estate persuaded the Victorian Government to abandon the proposal. The allied Sugarloaf Reservoir at Christmas Hills went ahead.

The residential development of Wonga Park came after the subdivisions in Croydon and Mooroolbark, which were on the Maroondah Highway and a railway line. Residential living is most concentrated around the old village settlement where the church, hall, sports facilities, fire station and a few shops are found. The northern boundary of Wonga Park, where land was acquired for the Yarra Brae storage, is a linear riverside part of the Warrandyte State Park.

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