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Croydon Melbourne, Victoria
Population:	20780 (2001 census)
Postcode:	3136
Area:	14.3 km²
Property Value:	AUD $282,250 [1]
Location:	31 km from Melbourne
LGA:	City of Maroondah
State District:	Kilsyth, Warrandyte
Federal Division:	Casey
Suburbs around Croydon Croydon Hills Croydon North Mooroolbark Ringwood Croydon Mooroolbark Ringwood East Croydon South Kilsyth

Croydon is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Maroondah City Council.

Croydon is the host suburb of the Maroondah Festival, which is held yearly in Croydon Park. Performers have included Kate Ceberano, Vanessa Amorosi, Paul Kelly, Johnny Diesel, Hunters and Collectors, The Living End, 28 Days, Spiderbait, Kisschasy and even a few international acts.

Swinburne University of Technology has a campus in Croydon, offering TAFE courses and apprenticeship training. Croydon contains one railway station, Croydon, on the Lilydale line. It is also the home of EV's Youth Centre, a long-standing local venue for all-ages live music events. Bass player for 28 Days, Damian Gardiner, grew up in Croydon.

Burnt Bridge is an area within the Melbourne suburb of Croydon, in Victoria, Australia. It is named after the Burnt Bridge Hotel, which was operated by Elizabeth Moore and Lucy Dawson as early as the 1840s, and located along the Lilydale Trail, near the present day junction of Maroondah Highway and Old Lilydale Road. At the time of the hotels existence, the area was grazing land. Hotels in these times usually began as shanties, selling coffee to passing coaches, before gaining their liquor licences.

Although some historians have speculated that the name is derived from the Scottish word 'burn', meaning 'stream', it is more popularly believed to be derived from a bridge in the area which burnt down. The hotel was also known to locals as The Blazing Stump.

Croydon was founded by a young man by the name of David Stephensen and began as the home of Warrandyte South Railway Station (since rebuilt as the current station). Travellers would travel by rail to the then unnamed station, and were then faced with a horse & coach ride to Warrandyte, which was not expected by many people. The station, along with the town that grew from it, was re-named Croydon, after Croydon, England.

Coordinates: -37.796° 145.281°

• Maps and aerial photos
  • Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
  • Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
• Australian Places - Croydon
• Maroondah City Council Official Website
• Maroondah Festival Official Website
• Start Swinburne Site for Australian prospective students
• Swinburne University of Technology Home page

Suburbs of the City of Maroondah
Bayswater North | Croydon | Croydon Hills | Croydon North | Croydon South | Heathmont | Kilsyth South | Ringwood | Ringwood East | Ringwood North | Warranwood