Bayswater Melbourne, Victoria
Bayswater, Vic, looking east to Mount Dandenong
Bayswater
Population:	10,738 (2006)[1]
Postcode:	3153
Area:	8 km² (3.1 sq mi)
Location:	29 km (18 mi) from Melbourne 5 km (3 mi) from Croydon
LGA:	City of Knox
State electorate:	Bayswater
Federal Division:	Aston, La Trobe
Suburbs around Bayswater: Wantirna Heathmont Bayswater North Wantirna Bayswater Wantirna South Boronia Boronia

Bayswater is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 28 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Knox. At the 2006 Census, Bayswater had a population of 10,738.

History

The first Post Office in the area was Scoresby North which opened on 8 May 1882 and renamed Macauley in 1884. When the railway arrived in 1889 a Bayswater office near the station replaced Macauley. In 1898 Bayswater Village (at the shopping centre of that name) office replaced Bayswater.^[2]

In the late 1940s, a number of German Templers (just released from the Tatura Internment Camp) settled in Bayswater and Boronia. Part of the Temple Society Australia they built a Community Centre (1961) in Elizabeth Street and a Retirement Village, as well as a Nursing Home Tabulam in partnership with the Australian German Welfare Society (AGWS).

Today

Bayswater's schools include Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, Bayswater Primary School, Bayswater South Primary School, Bayswater West Primary School and Bayswater Secondary College (formerly Bayswater High School).

Its most well-known reserve is Bayswater Park, where football and cricket is played on the two ovals, as well as netball and tennis on surrounding courts. The adjacent playground, known by the locals as the 'Train Park', contains a disused steam engine which has been altered for children to play on.

Shopping in Bayswater includes 3 supermarkets: Woolworths, Aldi and Coles, and a Mitre 10 Home & Trade. The most recent newest shopping precinct is Mountain High Plaza, which was completed on May 2009, and includes an Anytime Fitness 24hr health club, the Coles supermarket, coffee shops, and variety stores inlcluding Priceline Phramacy and Dimmeys. Bayswater is also the headquarters of the Knox Opportunity Shop, which is run by councillors and others.

Bayswater Station is located near Mountain Highway, the main stretch of road running through the suburb and a train ride from Bayswater to the CBD is 26 kilometres.

Bayswater North is located in the City of Maroondah and shares the postcode 3153 with Bayswater.

Politics and Representation

Bayswater contained three voting booths at the 2010 federal election, all located within the federal electorate of Aston. The suburb is often fairly 'marginal' electorally, in that neither of the main political parties tends to dominate the area. It is therefore a reasonably good barometer in its representation of overall national voting patterns and trends. Historically competitive, the collective 2010 result for the three booths distributed the primary vote in portions of 42.2% to Labor, 41.2% to the Liberals, and 10.8% to the Greens. After the distribution of preferences, the two-party result was 53.8% Labor and 46.2% Liberal.^[3]

Sport

The suburb has an Australian Rules football team, The Bayswater Roos, competing in the Eastern Football League.^[4]

See also

• City of Croydon - the former local government area of which Bayswater was a part.

References

External links

• Australian Places - Bayswater, Victoria
• Bayswater Neighborhood on Facebook (login required)

Coordinates: 37°50′35″S 145°16′05″E / 37.843°S 145.268°E / -37.843; 145.268