Alphington

Worth seeing in and around Alphington

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   University of Divinity

   The University of Divinity is an Australian collegiate university with a specialised focus in divinity and associated disciplines. It is constituted by twelve theological colleges from seven denominations and three schools.

   3.1 km · collegiate university in Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Kanes Bridge

   Kane's Bridge, also written as Kanes Bridge and previously known as Kane's Suspension Bridge, is a wooden suspension bridge located in Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne, Australia over the Yarra River, linking the inner-city suburbs of Fairfield and Kew. The bridge is for use exclusively by pedestrians, with cyclists required to dismount before entering the bridge.

   2.5 km · bridge in Boroondara City, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Brunswick Street Oval

   The Brunswick Street Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket ground located within Edinburgh Gardens in the suburb of Fitzroy North, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is managed by the City of Yarra.

   3.8 km · Australian rules football and cricket ground · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Lyon Housemuseum

   The Lyon Housemuseum is a hybrid residence and contemporary art museum located on Cotham Road, Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The Housemuseum displays the Lyon Collection of Australian contemporary art in a purpose designed building.

   3.9 km · art gallery in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Yarra Bend Park

   The Yarra Bend Park is a 260-hectare metropolitan park located in Kew and Fairfield, inner east suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Situated 4 kilometres northeast of the city centre of Melbourne, the park is the largest area of remnant natural bushland in inner Melbourne.

   2 km · park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Heidelberg Town Hall

   The Heidelberg Town Hall, more commonly known as The Centre Ivanhoe, is a former town hall, now civic building, located at 275 Upper Heidelberg Road in Ivanhoe, in the City of Banyule, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1937 on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the town hall was designed in the Streamline Moderne style for the Heidelberg City Council by architectural firm Peck & Kemter in association with A.C. Leith & Bartlett.

   2.5 km · heritage-listed civic building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
7. 07
   John Cain Memorial Park

   John Cain Memorial Park is an Australian association football ground in Thornbury, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The ground is named after John Cain 'Senior' former Victorian Premier and father of John Cain former Premier of Victoria 1982–90.

   1.5 km · park in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Darebin Creek Bridge

   Darebin Creek Bridge is a bluestone masonry arch and concrete road bridge on Heidelberg road Alphington over Darebin Creek. It was built for Heidelberg Road Trust to a design of John C Climie CE and constructed by contractor O. H. Willison in 1864, to replace an earlier 1852 timber bridge which had fallen into a poor state of repair.

   1.1 km · Bridge in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Fairfield Industrial Dog Object

   The Fairfield Industrial Dog Object is a large sculpture in hardwood of a canine in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Fairfield, Victoria, Australia. It was part of the Darebin City Council's Public Art Program, and is located beside the Fairfield railway station.

   500 m · sculpture by Ian Sinclair, Jackie Staude, David Davies and Alistair Knox · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Featherston House

    Featherston House is in Ivanhoe, Victoria. It was designed by leading Australian architect Robin Boyd of Romberg & Boyd in 1967.

    1.4 km · house in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Alphington

Airports

Melbourne (MEL), 20 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 57 km

Stations

Croxton, 2.9 km · Darebin, 1.5 km · Eaglemont, 3.3 km · Victoria Park, 3.3 km · Merri, 2.6 km

• Geelong/Melbourne → Alphington

  7 km · quickest by road, 23 min · A$1–1.5
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• Hobart (Cambridge) → Alphington

  600 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · A$200–300
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• Adelaide → Alphington

  658 km · quickest by air, 5h 4m · A$220–320
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