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Essendon West

Essendon West is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km (6.2 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area.

Essendon West
Essendon West · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Essendon West is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km (6.2 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area. Essendon West recorded a population of 1,559 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Essendon West

9 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
    Maribyrnong River Viaduct

    The Albion Viaduct, officially the Maribyrnong River Viaduct, and also known locally as the Quarter Mile Bridge, is a trestle viaduct across the Maribyrnong River and Maribyrnong River Trail that carries the Albion–Jacana railway line, located in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It is located near the E J Whitten Bridge, and is almost 400 metres long.

    3.3 km · railway bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    1.7 km · cricket ground in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tompsett Stadium

    Knights Stadium is an Australian association football stadium in Sunshine North, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Built in 1989, it is used by the Melbourne Knights as a home ground in the NPL Victoria competition, and previously in the National Soccer League.

    3.4 km · Australian soccer stadium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.5 km · culture museum in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    1 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Maribyrnong VIC · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    2.1 km · shopping centre in Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    3.7 km · park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    3.2 km · Australian rules football ground in the Melbourne area · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

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

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Getting to Essendon West

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 10 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 48 km
Stations
Essendon Airport, 3.4 km · Glenbervie, 3.4 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Essendon West
    14 km · quickest by road, 41 min · A$2–2.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Essendon West
    607 km · quickest by air, 4h 16m · A$170–270
  • Adelaide → Essendon West
    644 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · A$190–280
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Essendon West

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 Essendon West. 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.

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Around it

Next door to Essendon West

Essendon West is 10 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Maidstonesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.1 km
  • Essendonsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.6 km
  • Keilor Eastsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.3 km
  • Airport Westsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.5 km
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