Woodstock, Victoria

Woodstock is a bounded semi-rural locality in Victoria, Australia, located just north of Melbourne's outer suburbs, located within the City of Whittlesea local government area. Woodstock recorded a population of 150 at the 2021 census.

Woodstock
Victoria
Merriang Road area of Woodstock, from the north-west
Woodstock is located in Melbourne
Woodstock
Woodstock
Location in metropolitan Melbourne
Coordinates37.544°S 145.056°E / -37.544; 145.056
Population150 (2021 census)[1]
Postcode(s)3751
LGA(s)City of Whittlesea
State electorate(s)Yan Yean
Federal division(s)McEwen
Localities around Woodstock:
Beveridge Eden Park Whittlesea
Donnybrook Woodstock Yan Yean
Wollert Mernda Mernda

Australian contemporary poet Robbie Coburn hails from Woodstock. Former Western Australian premier Philip Collier was born and raised in Woodstock. Writer/ Director Billy Rowlands is also from Woodstock.

History

Woodstock Post Office opened on 9 January 1858 and closed in 1971. To the west Woodstock West Post office opened in 1877 and continued operating until 1959.[2] In September 1876 a small timber Catholic church, known as the church of St. Patrick, was erected for local worshippers.[3]

Deputations were made to the Victorian government during the 1890s to bring a railway line through the area. It was decided that the Sydney-Melbourne rail corridor would run to the west, parallel with the Hume Highway, and so the closest railway station is at Donnybrook, approximately 8 km (5 mi) away.[4]

Books on Woodstock

Jones, Michael Nature's Plenty: a history of the City of Whittlesea, Sydney, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin, 1992 ISBN 1863730761

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Woodstock (Suburbs and Localities)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 13 April 2021
  3. DIOCESE OF SANDHURST. (16 September 1876). Advocate (Melbourne, Vic. : 1868 - 1954), p. 7. Retrieved 16 January 2017, from http://nla.go v.au/nla.news-article170433287
  4. "COMMENTS FROM THE COUNTRY". The Age. Victoria, Australia. 28 June 1890. p. 10. Retrieved 26 May 2020 – via Trove.
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