Essendon, Victoria

Essendon Melbourne, Victoria
Essendon
Coordinates	37°44′56″S 144°54′43″E / 37.749°S 144.912°E / -37.749; 144.912Coordinates: 37°44′56″S 144°54′43″E / 37.749°S 144.912°E / -37.749; 144.912
Population	18,852 (2011)
• Density	3,041/km2 (7,880/sq mi)
Postcode(s)	3040
Area	6.2 km2 (2.4 sq mi)
Location	10 km (6 mi) from Melbourne
LGA(s)	City of Moonee Valley
State electorate(s)	Essendon Niddrie
Federal Division(s)	Maribyrnong
Suburbs around Essendon: Essendon North Strathmore Strathmore Essendon West, Niddrie Essendon Brunswick West, Pascoe Vale South Aberfeldie Moonee Ponds Moonee Ponds

Essendon /ˈɛsǝndǝn/, locally /ˈɛsǝndǝn/, is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km north-west of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Moonee Valley. At the 2011 Census, Essendon had a population of 18,852.

Essendon is bounded in the west by Hoffmans Road, in the north by Keilor Road and Woodland Street, in the east by the Moonee Ponds Creek, and in the south by Buckley Street (except for a small section further south bordering Moonee Ponds).

Essendon and the banks of the Maribyrnong River were originally inhabited by the Wurundjeri clan of the Woiwurrung speaking people of the Kulin Aboriginal nation.

In 1803 Charles Grimes and James Fleming were the first known European explorers into the Maribyrnong area.

Essendon was named after the village of Essendon in Hertfordshire, England. Richard Green, who arrived in Victoria in the 1850s and settled near Melbourne, was a native of Essendon, Hertfordshire, where his father Isaac Green was either owner or tenant of Essendon Mill, and he bestowed the name of his native village on the district in which he had made his new home.

In 1851 the gold rush opened up the Moonee Ponds District with miners travelling along Mount Alexander Road to Castlemaine.

Essendon Post Office opened on 18 August 1856.

In 1862 169 residents sought the formation of the Borough of Essendon and Flemington.

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