Albion, Victoria
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Albion Melbourne, Victoria |
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Kororoit Creek near Selwyn Park in Albion.
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 Albion
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| Coordinates | 37°46′52″S 144°48′52″E / 37.781°S 144.8145°ECoordinates: 37°46′52″S 144°48′52″E / 37.781°S 144.8145°E | ||||||||||||
| Population | 4,337 (2011 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 1,730/km2 (4,490/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1849 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3020 | ||||||||||||
| Area | 2.5 km2 (1.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location | 13 km (8 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Brimbank | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | St Albans | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Gellibrand | ||||||||||||
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Albion is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km west from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2011 census Albion had a population of 4,337.
Albion is bordered on the north by Ballarat Road, the south by Forrest Street, the west by Kororoit Creek and the east by Anderson Road. The suburb is completely surrounded by other parts of Sunshine except for Ardeer, which lies to Albion's due west across Kororoit Creek.
The area was originally called Darlington, from at least 1860 to about 1890. The area originally known as Albion was directly west of Duke Street, as can be noted by the many streets there named after English counties and placenames - Albion being an ancient name for the island of Great Britain. Albion station opened on 5 January 1860 as Albion and Darlington but closed a year later. It was not until 1919 that a new station was opened on the same site with the name Albion station.
In March 1885 the Albion Quarrying Company began its operations in the area The disused Albion quarry, accessed from Hulett St, was the location for AC/DC's Jailbreak music video.
It was H. V. McKay of Sunshine Harvester Works fame who bought land to develop a residential community for his workers in first decades on the 20th century. His concept for Sunshine was the Sunshine Estate: a community developed according to the ideals of the Garden city movement, an influential town planning movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This area was mainly in what is now called Albion. McKay's own residence, The Gables, was in Talmage Street (where the cul-de-sac The Gables now is) until it was demolished.
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