Woodstock, Victoria

Coordinates: 37°32′38″S 145°03′22″E / 37.544°S 145.056°E

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Woodstock
Victoria

Merriang Road area of Woodstock, from the north-west

Woodstock

Location in metropolitan Melbourne

Coordinates

37°32′38″S 145°03′22″E / 37.544°S 145.056°E

Population

150 (2021 census)^[1]

3751

Localities around Woodstock:
Beveridge	Eden Park	Whittlesea
Donnybrook	Woodstock	Yan Yean
Wollert	Mernda	Mernda

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.

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

^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Woodstock (Suburbs and Localities)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
^ Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 13 April 2021
^ 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
^ "COMMENTS FROM THE COUNTRY". The Age. Victoria, Australia. 28 June 1890. p. 10. Retrieved 26 May 2020 – via Trove.

External links

Refer to Woodstock in Victoria History and People Facebook page for further information

v t e Suburbs of the City of Whittlesea
Aurora Beveridge^ Bundoora^ Donnybrook Doreen^ Eden Park Epping Humevale Kinglake West^ Lalor Mernda Mill Park South Morang Thomastown Whittlesea Wollert Woodstock Yan Yean^ ^ = territory divided with another LGA

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