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Richmond Park

University of Melbourne Burnley College ,  Survey Paddock (1836-7 TO 1862); ,  Melbourne Girls College ,  Kevin Bartlett Sporting & Recreation Complex ,  Burnley Public Golf Course ,  AMRAD & GE Complex

Yarra Blvd, BURNLEY VIC 3121 - Property No G13143

Richmond Park, set aside as the Survey Paddock in 1836-37 for the agistment of the surveyor's horses, gazetted as Richmond's first public park in 1862, location of experimental horticultural gardens (1861) and Australia's first School of Horticulture (1891), traversed by the Yarra Boulevard built in the 1930s Depression by sustenance labourers, and maintained in continuous use as public parkland since its initial reservation, is of historic, aesthetic, social and scientific cultural ... more

G13143

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