Ascot Vale
Ascot Vale is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km (3.7 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area.

Ascot Vale is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km (3.7 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area. Ascot Vale recorded a population of 15,197 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Ascot Vale
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.
- 01Melbourne Zoo
Melbourne Zoo is a zoo in Melbourne, Australia. It is located within Royal Park in Parkville, approximately 4 kilometres north of the centre of Melbourne.
3 km · zoo in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Victoria University
Victoria University is an Australian public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It is a dual-sector university, providing courses in both higher education and technical and further education.
2.4 km · dual-sector public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Grainger Museum
The Grainger Museum is a repository of items documenting the life, career and music of the composer, folklorist, educator and pianist Percy Grainger (b. Melbourne, 1882; d.
4 km · museum about Australian music and the life and work of Percy Grainger · Wikipedia - 04Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Melbourne
The Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral also called Sts.
2.9 km · church in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Aberfeldie Park
Aberfeldie Park is a cricket ground in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is the home of the Aberfeldie Park Cricket Club, and hosted several Rose Bowl series Women's One Day International cricket matches during the winter of 1984–85.
2.5 km · cricket ground in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 06St Aloysius' College
St Aloysius College is a Roman Catholic, co-educational secondary day school in North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1887.
2.6 km · Catholic secondary college, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Monash University, Parkville campus is a campus of Monash University, located in Parkville, Victoria, Australia. It is home to the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
3.5 km · pharmacy faculty of Monash University · Wikipedia - 08Carlton Recreation Ground
Princes Park is an Australian rules football venue located inside the Princes Park precinct in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton North. Officially known as the Carlton Recreation Ground, it is a historic venue, having been Carlton Football Club's VFL/AFL home ground from 1897.
3.8 km · stadium in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 09Trinity College
Trinity College is the oldest residential college of the University of Melbourne, the first university in the colony of Victoria, Australia. The college was opened in 1872 on a site granted to the Church of England by the government of Victoria.
3.9 km · college of the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 10Highpoint Shopping Centre
Highpoint Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Highpoint is Victoria's third largest shopping centre and the fifth largest in Australia, with an annual turnover of $778 million and over 15 million shoppers visiting each year.
3 km · shopping centre in Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ascot Vale
- Airports
- Melbourne (MEL), 14 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 49 km
- Stations
- Jewell, 3.5 km · Middle Footscray, 3.6 km · Seddon, 3.9 km · Showgrounds, 600 m · South Kensington, 2.4 km
- Geelong/Melbourne → Ascot Vale10 km · quickest by road, 29 min · A$1.5–2
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Ascot Vale603 km · quickest by air, 4h 28m · A$190–280
- Adelaide → Ascot Vale649 km · quickest by air, 4h 45m · A$200–300
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ascot Vale
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ascot Vale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextMelbourne is fairly centrally located on the coast of Victoria, and there are many natural and man-made attractions that make for a nice day trip.
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Next door to Ascot Vale
Ascot Vale is 6 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Footscraysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.7 km
- Parkvillesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3 km
- Moonee Pondssuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.6 km
- West Melbournesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.3 km
- North Melbournesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.3 km
- Essendonsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.4 km