Glenroy

Worth seeing in and around Glenroy

3 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
   St James Old Cathedral

   St James Old Cathedral, an Anglican church, is the oldest church in Melbourne, Australia, albeit not on its original site. It is one of the relatively few buildings in the central city which predate the Victorian gold rush of 1851.

   1.2 km · church in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Penola Catholic College

   Penola Catholic College is a co-educational secondary college, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Patron of the college is Saint Mary MacKillop.

   2.1 km · co-educational secondary college, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Fawkner Memorial Park

   The Fawkner Memorial Park, officially known as the Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park, and previously known as the Municipal Cemetery, Fawkner, and the New Melbourne Cemetery, is a cemetery and crematorium located adjacent to Sydney Road, Hadfield, a northern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. At 114 hectares, it is the largest cemetery in Victoria and is managed by Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.

   3 km · memorial park with crematorium and cemetery in Hadfield, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Glenroy

Airports

Melbourne (MEL), 9 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 55 km

Stations

Essendon Airport, 3.1 km · Gowrie, 3.1 km · Merlynston, 3.7 km · Jacana, 1.4 km

• Geelong/Melbourne → Glenroy

  17 km · quickest by road, 49 min · A$2.5–3.5
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• Hobart (Cambridge) → Glenroy

  611 km · quickest by air, 4h 13m · A$170–260
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• Adelaide → Glenroy

  646 km · quickest by air, 4h 30m · A$180–280
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No local-transport research exists yet for Glenroy

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 Glenroy. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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