Elsternwick, Victoria
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Elsternwick Melbourne, Victoria |
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Victorian shopfronts on the corner of Glen Huntly and St Georges Roads
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 Elsternwick
Location in metropolitan Melbourne
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| Coordinates | 37°53′13″S 145°00′22″E / 37.887°S 145.006°ECoordinates: 37°53′13″S 145°00′22″E / 37.887°S 145.006°E | ||||||||||||
| Population | 9,774 (2011) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 3,760/km2 (9,740/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1861 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3185 | ||||||||||||
| Area | 2.6 km2 (1.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | City of Glen Eira | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Caulfield | ||||||||||||
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Elsternwick is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Glen Eira. At the 2011 Census Elsternwick had a population of 9,774.
In terms of its cadastral division, Elsternwick is in the parish of Prahran within the County of Bourke.
It is bounded by Nepean Highway, Elster Avenue, Kooyong Road, Glen Eira Road and Hotham Street (the continuation of Williams Road). Elsternwick Park nearby and Elsternwick Park Golf Club bordered by Nepean Highway and Glen Huntly Road have always been connected with the suburb name of Elsternwick.
In the same way that Ripponlea took its name from the "Rippon Lea Estate" of Sir Frederick Sargood, Elsternwick took its name from the largest property in the district: Charles Ebden's house Elster (Elster is German for "magpie" ). The area was previously known as Red Bluff.
The creek nearby became known as the Elster Creek; and, when a village grew up on the creek, the Anglo-Saxon suffix ‘wick’, meaning village, was added.
The Elsternwick village was proposed in 1851.[5]
Elsternwick village was surveyed in 1856, and Elsternwick Post Office opened on 22 June 1860.
In 1861 a railway line, operated by the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company, was built from Melbourne to Brighton, via Elsternwick.
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