District Name | Previous Names | Notes |
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Burwood | Balyshanassy, Damper Creek | |
Forest Hill | Scotchman's Hill (prior to 1860), Mount Pleasant | Scotchman's Hill was named after the contingent of six Scottish residents who first resided on the property, one of whom was David Boyle. It is possible that Forest Hill was named for a cottage owned by Captain Bunbury in 1841 (Victorian Places, 2015a) |
Gardiner's Creek | Damper Creek | Damper Creek (now Gardiner's Creek) was named for the Indigenous Australians who would use their flour rations to prepare damper on the banks of the creek (Brennan, 1972) |
Burwood | Balyshanassy, Norwood, Damper Creek (Brennan, 1972) | The Irish name 'Balyshanassy' was briefly changed to Norwood and then eventually to 'Burwood' in 1879 (Brennan, 1972). |
Nunawading | Tunstall (between 1866-1945) | Tunstall was named for a place in England "famed for its potteries". Likewise, Nunawading in Victoria was renowned for its clay soils which prompted the development of several brickworks (Victorian Places, 2015b) |
Vermont | LL Vale | 'LL Vale' was named for Dr. Louis Lawrence Smith's 275-acre model farm located in Vermont. |
Street Name | Previous Names | Notes |
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Alrene Court | Named in honour of Albert and Rene Stevens, who were prominent orchardists in the Vermont area. The court is located near to their retirement home,'The Wattles'. | |
Boronia Road | LL Vale Road | The previous name of 'LL Vale Road' was named for prominent Vermont resident, Dr. Louis Lawrence Smith who owned a model farm 'LL Vale' which occupied a large area around "Boronia, Canterbury and Heatherdale Roads bounded by the Dandenong Creek" (Brash, 1997). |
Canterbury Road | Delaney's Road | 'Canterbury' is an English place name. Delaney's Road was named for publican Denis Delaney who established the 'Royal Hotel' on his property in 1865 (Sydenham, 1990). The former 'Delaney Hotel' existed on the western end of Delaney's Road (Brennan, 1972). |
Cantley Lane | Named for 'Cantley' house located on the corner of the lane (Whitehorse Historical Society, 2020) | |
Centre Road | In 1904, the vast property called 'L.L.Vale' that belonged to Dr. Louis Lawrence Smith, was subdivided as the Vermont Estate. 'Centre Road was created, and the land carved up into fifteen lots which varied in size from fifteen to thirty acres each' (Context Pty Ltd, 1994). | |
Highbury Road | Boundary Road, South Boundary Road | |
Morack Road | Railway Road | 'Morack' means 'rolling hills' (Whitehorse Historical Society, 2020). The road received its former name 'Railway Road' because the road was on the planned outercircle railway line which never eventuated (Nethercote, 2000) |
Nurlendi Road | Derived from the Indigenous Kaurna word 'nurlendi' meaning 'key' or 'twisting thing/twister' (Browning, 2009). | |
Phillip Street | Corr's Lane (Nethercote, 2000) | Named after Phillip McErvale, a poultry farmer and subdivider in the Vermont area (Whitehorse Historical Society, 2020) |
Terrara Road | Station Road | Native name for 'place of shrubs'. The name was bestowed to the former 'Station road' at a Nunawading Council meeting held on 14th May 1918, to avoid confusion with the many other thoroughfares in the district sharing the name 'station'. At the time, council members understood "Terrara was a native name, and implied shrub, or a country of shrubs" (Camberwell and Hawthorn Advertiser, Fri 24 May 1918). Its former name, Station Road, was a reflection of the road's use to allow the residents of Vermont to travel to and from the nearby Mitcham Railway Station. |
Whitehorse Road | Station Road | Named for early settler Patrick Trainor's 'White Horse Hotel' formerly located on the south-east corner of Elgar and White Horse roads (Brennan, 1972). According to Brennan (1972), it is believed that this name may reference the English symbol of the 'White Horse' immortalised in epics such as G.K. Chesterton's The Ballad of the White Horse |
Verona Street | Named by Stanley Douglas Livermore after the 'Verona Hospital' in which he was born (Nethercote, 2000) |
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