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Ashwood

Ashwood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km south east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area.

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The place

Ashwood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km south east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Ashwood recorded a population of 7,154 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ashwood

4 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
    Waverley Park

    Waverley Park is an Australian rules football oval and former large-scale stadium located in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave. The first venue to be designed and built specifically for Australian rules football, it served as a neutral stadium for Victorian-based Victorian Football League/Australian Football League clubs upon its opening in 1970.

    3.2 km · park in Mulgrave, Victoria · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wattle Park

    Wattle Park is a 41-hectare urban park in Burwood, a suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It is known for its plantation of 12,000 wattle trees.

    3.1 km · park in Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Chadstone Shopping Centre

    Chadstone Shopping Centre is a major shopping centre in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Malvern East. It is the largest shopping centre in Australia.

    2.8 km · super regional shopping centre located in the inner south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    South Surrey Park

    South Surrey Park is a park in Melbourne, Australia, located in the suburb of Surrey Hills. The park is progressively being replanted with indigenous native species.

    3.9 km · park in City of Boroondara, 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.

Go there

Getting to Ashwood

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 32 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 59 km
Stations
Alamein, 2.1 km · Darling, 3.5 km · East Malvern, 3.2 km · Jordanville, 1.1 km · Oakleigh, 3.9 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Ashwood
    9 km · quickest by road, 23 min · A$1–1.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Ashwood
    589 km · quickest by air, 5h 17m · A$220–320
  • Adelaide → Ashwood
    668 km · quickest by air, 5h 34m · A$230–340
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ashwood

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 Ashwood. 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

    631 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    737 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

    2,044 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,224 km

If you know how people move in Ashwood – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ashwood

Ashwood is 14 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ashburtonsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.8 km
  • Chadstonesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2 km
  • Box Hill Southlocality in Victoria, Australia3.9 km
  • Burwoodsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.1 km
  • Hughesdalesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.4 km
  • Malvern Eastsuburb of Melbourne, Australia4 km