Lovely Banks, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Lovely Banks
city = Geelong
state = vic


caption =
lga = City of Greater Geelong
postcode = 3221
pop = 1012 (2006)Census 2006 AUS | id = SSC22071 | name = Lovely Banks (State Suburb) | accessdate = 2007-10-01 | quick = on]
area =
propval = [http://www.domain.com.au/Public/SuburbReport.aspx?searchTerm=3221 $317,000] (2005)
stategov =
fedgov =
near-nw =
near-n =
near-ne = Corio
near-w =
near-e = Norlane
near-sw =
near-s = Bell Park
near-se = North Geelong
dist1 =
location1=

Lovely Banks is a northern suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Once an agricultural and rural area, the suburb is quickly developing into a residential area adjoining the Geelong suburbs of Bell Park, Corio and Norlane.

The origin of the name is thought to be descriptive of the area. The land to the west rises quite quickly from 30 to 100 metres above sea level. It provides an expansive view of Geelong and Corio Bay.

The Post Office, opened around 1902 named as Lovely Banks Reservoir, was renamed Lovely Banks around 1907 and closed in 1960. 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 ]

Census populations

* 1911 - 94
* 1961 - 114

ee also

*Chanel College

References