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词条 Fairfield, Victoria
释义

  1. History

  2. Transport

  3. Commerce and culture

  4. Education

  5. Sporting clubs

  6. Gallery

  7. See also

  8. References

  9. External links

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| type = suburb
| name = Fairfield
| city = Melbourne
| state = vic
| image = Grandview Hotel, Fairfield.jpg
| caption = Grandview Hotel built in 1888
| lga = City of Darebin
| lga2 = City of Yarra
| alternative_location_map = Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne
| coordinates = {{coord|37.792|S|145.011|E|display=inline,title}}
| postcode = 3078
| pop = 6,558
| pop_year = 2016
| pop_footnotes = [1]
| area = 3.4
| est =
| stategov = Northcote
| fedgov = Batman
| dist1 = 6
| location1= Melbourne
| dist2 =
| location2=
| near-nw = Thornbury
| near-n = Thornbury
| near-ne = Ivanhoe
| near-w = Northcote
| near-e = Alphington
| near-sw = Clifton Hill
| near-s = Kew
| near-se = Kew
}}

Fairfield is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north-east of Melbourne City Centre. Its local government area are the cities of Darebin and Yarra.

Its borders are Grange Road to the east, the Yarra River to the south, Darebin Road to the north and Northcote to the west.

Yarra Bend is a locality in Fairfield.

History

Fairfield Post Office opened on 21 February 1887.[2] It has since relocated. In 1962, Fairfield was part of the City of Heidelberg. In that year, it and Alphington became part of the City of Northcote, which, in 1994 became part of the City of Darebin.

Transport

Fairfield is serviced by the Fairfield railway station, which is on the Hurstbridge line as well as by bus.

Commerce and culture

Fairfield is predominantly residential, with a small north-eastern pocket remaining a light industrial area. It also features a three-storey hotel, the Grandview Hotel, completed in 1888. License was granted by the Licensing Court on 15 August 1888. {{Cn|date=June 2017}}

The Station St shopping district currently has 89 businesses operating within it, with 23 cafes/bars/restaurants and 17 food and wine specialists.[3]

Fairfield has significant Greek and Italian communities, with 10.9% and 10.5% of residents being of those ancestries respectively. There are also strong numbers of Chinese, Dutch, German and Indian residents in the suburb.[4]

Adjacent to the railway station, facing north-east, is the Fairfield Industrial Dog Object, a 6m tall animatronic wooden dog.

Education

  • Fairfield Primary School
  • St Anthony's Primary School
  • Melbourne Polytechnic has a campus on the site of the former Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital specialising in Visual Arts, music, horticulture, and jewellery manufacture.

Sporting clubs

  • Fairfield Cricket Club
  • Soccer teams Fitzroy City and Yarra Jets play home matches at Fairfield Park.
  • Golfers play at the course of the Yarra Bend Golf Club on Yarra Bend Road.[5]
  • Fairfield is home to the Darebin International Sports Centre which played host to events during the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Gallery

See also

  • City of Northcote - the former local government area of which Fairfield was a part

References

1. ^{{Census 2016 AUS | id = SSC20895 | name = Fairfield (State Suburb) | accessdate = 2017-07-03 | quick = on}}
2. ^{{Citation | last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | accessdate = 11 April 2008 }}
3. ^http://www.stationstreet.com.au/#
4. ^http://profile.id.com.au/darebin/ancestry?WebID=120
5. ^{{Citation | author= Golf Select | title = Yarra Bend | url = http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=339 | accessdate = 11 May 2009 }}

External links

{{Commons category}}{{City of Darebin suburbs}}{{City of Yarra suburbs}}

1 : Suburbs of Melbourne

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