Edithvale, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Edithvale
city = Melbourne
state = vic


caption =
lga = City of Kingston
postcode = 3196
pop = 4991 (2006) Census 2006 AUS | id = SSC21245 | name = Edithvale (State Suburb) | accessdate = 2007-09-17 | quick = on]
area = 2.1
est =
propval = $455,000 [ [http://www.domain.com.au/public/suburbprofile.aspx?suburb=Edithvale&postcode=3196 Edithvale] , accessed 9 August 2007]
stategov = Carrum
fedgov = Isaacs
dist1 = 29
location1= Melbourne
near-nw =
near-n = Aspendale
near-ne = Aspendale Gardens
near-w = "Port Phillip"
near-e = Chelsea Heights
near-sw =
near-s = Chelsea
near-se = Chelsea Heights

Edithvale is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Kingston.

History

Edithvale Post Office opened on 20 April 1923. Citation
last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | accessdate = 2008-04-11 ]

Public transport and local information

Along with the Edithvale railway station, Grenda operate the 888 bus route which travels on Edithvale Road (which becomes Springvale Road after the Wells Road/Boundary Road intersection). Edithvale Primary School was a very large school in the area, it is located on Edithvale Road, a few hundred meters from the station.

Edithvale Primary School

Edithvale Primary School has a long history, originally being a wooden building which was burnt down in 1930 and rebuilt in red brick as it is today. During the 1960s it was the largest school in the area with over 1000 students. It produced Victorian State MP Louise Asher and Federal MP Greg Wilton.

Edithvale Beach

Edithvale is best known for its long beach of pure white sand and historic bathing boxes. Residents groups have set up the Kingston Boatshed Association to protect these historic treasurers originally constructed by their owners for family activities such as swimming and fishing. The waters of Port Phillip Bay provide an excellent reflection as the sun sets directly facing the shore.

Today large houses are being built on the absolute beach frontages which are highly sought after. Pre-war this area was popular with Melbourne city residents who caught the train down on a hot Sunday and swam at Edithvale lifesaving club with its pier.

Fish that are common and can be taken with a hand spear include Flounder, Flathead and Garfish. Dolphins have been seen swimming 100 metres from shore and in the shallows small fingelings breed.

The beach which was originally ultra pure fine white sand has been contaminated by an attempt to reclaim the beach further north at Aspendale in the late 1970s. This reclamation involved pumping sand onto the eroding beach from far offshore. Unfortunately this off shore sand was much coarser and yellower being harder and grittier. It's clear today to see the progressive spread of this course sand now 3 km south of its original location. Other changes to the beach include the installation of sewerage to beach front properties in th 1960s when the entire dune was bulldozed, removing all native vegetation and levelling flat what was a protective mound. Introduced grasses were planted to hold the sand together and this eventually spread down to near the waters edge, producing what is seen today as a creeping sand dune covering the original beach with grass.

Edithvale beach is also famous as the home of John Bertrand ,skipper of the Americas Cup winning Yacht Australia II, he learnt his seamanship skills at Chelsea Yacht Club sailing on the unpredictable Port Phillip Bay.

port

The town in conjunction with neighbouring suburb Aspendale has an Australian Rules football Edithvale-Aspendale team competing in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League.

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