Hays Paddock | |
---|---|
Glass Creek Park, Kilby Park | |
Type | Urban park |
Location | 25-27 Longstaff Street, Kew East, Victoria, Australia |
Coordinates | 37°47′20.732″S145°3′30.753″E / 37.78909222°S 145.05854250°E |
Established | 1844 |
Founder | William Oswin |
Operated by | City of Boroondara |
Open | All year |
Status | Open to public |
Camp sites | No |
Parking | Yes |
Public transit access | 200 Bus Route 207 Bus Route |
Website | Home Page |
Hays Paddock is a popular Australian recreational park in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Kew East. [1] [2] Managed by City of Boroondara council, [3] the park consists of a popular playground, [4] [5] [6] [7] walking & cycling tracks, and two ovals for teams playing Archery, Cricket, and Soccer. [8] The park is also sometimes referred to as 'Kilby Park' due to its proximity to Kilby Road, and 'Glass Creek' due to the creek of the same name that passes through. [9]
Location | Hays Paddock |
---|---|
Coordinates | 37°47′21.75″S145°3′28.75″E / 37.7893750°S 145.0579861°E |
Owner | City of Boroondara |
Operator | Melbourne Deaf Club & Old Xaverians SC |
Capacity | Standing |
Surface | Lawn |
Tenants | |
Cricket Deepdene Cricket Club Old Xaverians Soccer Club |
The creek of Glass Creek passes through the parkland, entering from the south-east corner of the park and exiting through the central west-end underneath the Eastern Freeway. The land originally belonging to the Wurundjeri people, William Oswin was the first recorded owner of the land in 1844 where Hays Paddock and Glass Creek flows into the Yarra on a property known as Kilby Farm. [10]
The City of Boroondara is a local government area in Victoria, Australia. It is located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It was formed in June 1994 from the amalgamation of the Cities of Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn.
Ashburton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km (7.5 mi) southeast of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Ashburton recorded a population of 7,952 at the 2021 census.
Balwyn North, also known as North Balwyn, is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Boroondara and Whitehorse local government areas. Balwyn North recorded a population of 21,302 at the 2021 census.
Kew (;) is an affluent inner eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km east from Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Kew recorded a population of 24,499 at the 2021 census.
Kew East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km east from Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Kew East recorded a population of 6,620 at the 2021 census.
Melbourne is Australia's second largest city and widely considered to be a garden city, with Victoria being nicknamed "the Garden State". Renowned as one of the most livable cities in the world, there is an abundance of parks, gardens and green belts close to the CBD with a variety of common and rare plant species amid landscaped vistas, pedestrian pathways, and tree-lined avenues, all managed by Parks Victoria.
Caribbean Gardens was a 100 acres (0.40 km2) market, gardens and amusement park located in the outer eastern suburb of Scoresby in Melbourne, Australia, on the north/west side of Caribbean Lake, a large 1.2 km (0.75 mi) long artificial lake along the northern (right) bank of Corhanwarrabul Creek.
Katherine Louise Stewart is an AACTA and Logie Award-winning Australian actress who has made numerous appearances in television series, movies and on-stage.
The Sackville Ward is a large residential precinct in the suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Australia.
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield is an Australian television cooking show, that is hosted by former MasterChef contestant Justine Schofield. It first broadcast on Network Ten in 2011. The show is directed towards the home cook and features recipes ranging from simple to the more complex. It regularly features guests, including chefs, food specialists and other former Masterchef contestants. The series also screens on Lifestyle Food.
Dylan Anthony Shiel is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was one of 12 underage recruits that GWS had access to as part of their list concessions.
Greythorn Park is a park in the suburb of Balwyn North, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located in the eastern part of the suburb known as Greythorn, from which the park gets its name.
Glass Creek is a waterway flowing through the inner-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It is a minor tributary of the Yarra River and now largely runs through a series of underground drains.
Hugh Glass (1817–1871) was an Australian pastoralist, landowner and land speculator, one of the wealthiest and most influential men in Victoria in the 1850s and 1860s. His wealth was built on pastoral holdings and land deals and he exercised enormous influence over the colony's parliament.
Keith Moor is a journalist, raised in Newcastle upon Tyne with a long career with the newspaper The Herald and its successor, the Herald Sun.
The Sultana Bran Hockey One is a field hockey competition organised by Hockey Australia, which replaced the Australian Hockey League.
The Boroondara-Carey Eagles Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the Melbourne suburb of Bulleen. The club fields both senior' and reserves' teams for men & women, and operates a junior academy under license from Football Federation Victoria. Although based primarily in Bulleen, the club trains at hosts home matches at various venues in Balwyn North, Kew, Kew East, and Wantirna to accommodate for the youth academy.
Snap Send Solve is a smart cities technology platform that simplifies the reporting of community issues in Australia and New Zealand.
Max Holmes is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL).
The Eastern Express Busway, originally known as the Doncaster Busway, is a planned bus rapid transit line in Melbourne, Australia. It will run from Doncaster on dedicated bus lanes on the Eastern Freeway to Hoddle Street, with a new bus station at the Bulleen Road intersection. It is part of the North East Link project. The project is being managed by Transdev, and is estimated to cost 500 million Australian dollars. There has also been a proposal to use trackless trams for the busway.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)