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The suburb, known locally as Donny, like its namesake in the UK, is located on 8 9 km 2 of land around the top of the highest hill 120 m Doncaster suburb consists of a central area along the top Doncaster Hill, which includes several historic buildings along Doncaster Road, Westfield Doncaster shopping Center and the surrounding high-rise apartments, while the rest of the suburb is typical of most of the eastern suburbs of Melbourne accommodation extensive low density Today suburb is perhaps most notable for its shopping center, one of the largest in Australia.
The border of the suburbs following the Koonung Creek Doncaster Road, along the southern outskirts of Wetherby Road, which, with Victoria Street is the eastern border of the northern boundary follows Ruffey Creek Williamsons Road, Manningham and street Ayr, at the junction of Koonung Creek Doncaster Road.
In 1841, Frederic Unwin, a Sydney lawyer, bought 5,120 acres July 20 km2 of land, including most of the current suburb of Doncaster Crown for a pound an acre under special regulation of survey short The area was sometimes called special study Unwin.
Doncaster area was settled in the 1860s and 1870s, mainly by apple growers German settlers German community was named Waldau, 2 Doncaster but the name has gradually become widely accepted Lutheran church was the first to Doncaster 1858 Lutheran school opened in 1860 and a church school in 1861 Doncaster 3 post office opened May 17, 1860 4.
Cottage Schramm, a historic stone house originally located in Doncaster route on the fountain's website next municipal offices, was transferred to the site of the Lutheran Church of origin building in Victoria Street in the years 1970 the remains of Waldau cemetery, where 150 graves were held between 1853 and 1888, are located inside the Cottage Schramm 5.
In the 1880s, an observation tower 285 feet high was built on the hill Doncaster, which attracted trippers to what was then the countryside.
Doncaster is the location of the first electric streetcar to run in Melbourne in 1889. The tram started to Doncaster ended in Box Hill about 5 km 3 Therefore, he was appointed road Tram However, the service does not earned no profit, it ended in 1896 because of disputes with landowners and financial problems 6 the main road through the suburb, Doncaster road, was officially named main Street.
Doncaster remained an orchard until the 1970s, the majority of houses built from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Doncaster Hill is an ambitious remodeling project Doncaster Central Doncaster hill in an apartment and mecca of retail being only 14 km from the town 17 km by road and with stunning views over the rooftops of Melbourne CBD, time and investment was funded by the City of Manningham There have been several new developments with successful sales and a number of new projects are underway as the suburbs boomed in popularity mainly buyers and Chinese investors including developers based in Indonesia Although there is no train service to the suburbs have an extensive bus service and is located a short distance from the station Box Hill Except for rush hours of time, the eastern highway, it is only 12 minutes drive from the CBD to most other times as well as easy access to the Mornington Peninsula via Eastlink in other di rection A Smartbus Mordialloc to Altona passes through the center of Doncaster as well and there are now several new bus routes to get to Surro unding areas and the CBD and also has a park and ride at the intersection of Doncaster Rd highway East.
Doncaster was set with the first electric tram in the southern hemisphere in the late 19th century exploitation of Box Hill in Doncaster along what is now the tram route, the tram opened access much land in the area Unfortunately, the line did not last more than a few years.
The east-west main road Doncaster road leads to Donvale Kew Highway is completed in Doncaster Road at the western end of the suburb from 1983 to 1997 in December.
As a result of a decision by the Victorian Labor government Cain the Step 2 section of Bulleen Road to Doncaster road was only two lanes in each direction during this period Doncaster suffered from heavy traffic congestion and air pollution Doncaster are carried 60,000 vehicles per day in main artery Since the Kennett government extended the highway is along the path of the stream Koonung in Springvale Road Doncaster s per traffic has decreased significantly.
Throughout the 1970s, the Doncaster line was provided by the state government to run in the middle of the eastern highway, with a land acquired for the line, but it was sold in the 1980s 7 various projects have also been made for the extension of Route 48 north to Doncaster Tram 8 bus lines currently exist in the running area of a park center and walk along lanes city transport.
In 1969 Westfield Doncaster was built on the corner of Doncaster and Williamsons roads and is a well known shopping complex in Melbourne in the early 1980s and again in the early 1990s, it was completely renovated and expanded From September 2006 to October 2008, he went through a great revitalization, improvement and expansion of the center 9 considerably.
The suburb has an Australian football team, The Sharks Doncaster, competing in the Football League the East 10.
Doncaster Rovers SC is a football club based in Doncaster Association, currently associated with the Football Federation Victoria Cricket Club welcomes Manningham for the region, in the Eastern Conference and cricket based in Rieschiecks Reserve, corner of Victoria and George Street.
The Doncaster Baseball Club received a Diamond Award in 2008, after 10 of the 17 teams it fielded in 2007 made the final and won their three Premiership titles In recent years, many players 18 men's team Dragons continued to play for Victoria.
Golfers have previously played at the Golf Club of the East, on Doncaster Road The club has since moved, with the land being developed in a subdivision 11.
Before 2014, Doncaster was once a parliamentary seat in the State of Victoria that bears his name, the constituency of Doncaster is now mostly in Bulleen but a small section is Warrandyte The current member for Bulleen is Matthew Guy Doncaster is included in the federal seat of Menzies and Kevin Andrews is the local member at the municipal level, it is located in the city of Manningham.
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