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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
Ascot Vale · Sands & McDougall Pty Ltd - Melbourne
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Melbourne 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
  2. 02
    Victoria 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
  3. 03
    Grainger 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
  4. 04
    Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Melbourne

    The Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral also called Sts.

    2.9 km · church in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Aberfeldie 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
  6. 06
    St 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
  7. 07
    Monash 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
  8. 08
    Carlton 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
  9. 09
    Trinity 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
  10. 10
    Highpoint 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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 Vale
    10 km · quickest by road, 29 min · A$1.5–2
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Ascot Vale
    603 km · quickest by air, 4h 28m · A$190–280
  • Adelaide → Ascot Vale
    649 km · quickest by air, 4h 45m · A$200–300
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Melbourne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    645 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    719 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,598 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,063 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,207 km

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Around it

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