Essendon

Worth seeing in and around Essendon

7 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
   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.

   1.6 km · cricket ground in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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.

   3.3 km · shopping centre in Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Melbourne's Living Museum of the West

   Melbourne's Living Museum of the West is a community history, culture and ecomuseum, located in Maribyrnong, a western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The focus of the museum is to document, preserve and interpret the industrial, environmental, social and Indigenous history of the western suburbs of Melbourne.

   3.1 km · culture museum in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Defence Explosive Factory Maribyrnong

   The Defence Explosive Factory Maribyrnong is a heritage-listed military installation and former munitions factory located at Cordite Avenue, Maribyrnong, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1910 and actively producing munitions for World War I and II, the factory was closed in 1994.

   3.1 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Maribyrnong VIC · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Queens Park, Moonee Ponds

   The Queens Park is an urban park in Moonee Ponds, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The park is bounded by Mount Alexander Road, The Strand, Pascoe Vale Road, and Kellaway Avenue.

   1.9 km · park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Windy Hill, Essendon

   Windy Hill is an Australian rules football and cricket venue located in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon. It is synonymous with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League, which used the ground for home matches from 1922 until 1991 and as its primary administrative and training base until 2013.

   900 m · Australian rules football ground in the Melbourne area · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Moonee Ponds Court House

   The Moonee Ponds Court House, also known as the Essendon Court House, is a former court house located at 770 Mount Alexander Road, in Moonee Ponds, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1890, the building ceased use as a court house in 1975 and was repurposed as a history museum in 1981.

   2 km · heritage listed courthouse in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Essendon

Airports

Melbourne (MEL), 11 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 51 km

Stations

Essendon Airport, 2.5 km · Glenbervie, 1 km · Strathmore, 1.7 km · Showgrounds, 3.7 km

• Geelong/Melbourne → Essendon

  13 km · quickest by road, 38 min · A$2–2.5
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• Hobart (Cambridge) → Essendon

  607 km · quickest by air, 4h 18m · A$180–270
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• Adelaide → Essendon

  646 km · quickest by air, 4h 35m · A$190–290
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