Princes Hill, Victoria
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Princes Hill Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Coordinates | 37°47′02″S 144°57′58″E / 37.784°S 144.966°ECoordinates: 37°47′02″S 144°57′58″E / 37.784°S 144.966°E | ||||||||||||
| Population | 2,075 (2011 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 5,200/km2 (13,400/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3054 | ||||||||||||
| Area | 0.4 km2 (0.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location | 3 km (2 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Yarra | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Melbourne | ||||||||||||
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Princes Hill is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north of Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government area is the City of Yarra. At the 2011 Census, Princes Hill had a population of 2,075.
Princes Hill is named for the Prince of Wales, similarly to neighbouring Carlton.
Demographer Bernard Salt dubbed Princes Hill "Chick City" in 2003, after 2001 Census data revealed the suburb had the highest proportion of single women to men in Melbourne.
The Argus, on Saturday 11 October 1884, reported that a meeting of members of the Church of England the night before at the Carlton Hall, in Prince's Street (now North Carlton), agreed that as "North Carlton was now thickly populated, while dwellings were being rapidly built on Prince's Hill", that it would "not be unreasonable to conclude that the time had arrived when the residents in the neighbourhood could support a church." The meeting agreed that it was "desirable that a church should be erected in the newly constituted parish of St Michael's, and that permission be obtained from the bishop in council to sell the original site on the west side of Canning Street, near Pigdon Street, for the purpose of purchasing another in a more favourable position at the intersection of Wilson and Paterson Streets, Prince's Hill." The church today is on the corner of Macpherson and Mc Ilwraith Streets in Princes Hill.
By May 1885 "a temporary building on Princes Hill was nearing completion and was expected to be ready for opening, on Sunday the 17th inst."
On 2 November 1887 in the Legislative Assembly, it was moved Mr Jones (for Colonel Smith) moved for a copy of all the papers relating to the purchase of land at Prince's Hill, Carlton, for a state school. The motion was agreed to.
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