Heidelberg West
Heidelberg West is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Banyule local government area.

Heidelberg West is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Banyule local government area. Heidelberg West recorded a population of 5,252 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Heidelberg West
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.
- 01La Trobe University
La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora.
2.5 km · university in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Heide Museum of Modern Art
The Heide Museum of Modern Art, also known as Heide, is an art museum in Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1981, the museum exhibits modern and contemporary art across three buildings and is set within sixteen acres of heritage-listed gardens and a sculpture park.
3.7 km · art museum in Australia · Wikipedia - 03Heidelberg Town Hall
The Heidelberg Town Hall, more commonly known as The Centre Ivanhoe, is a former town hall, now civic building, located at 275 Upper Heidelberg Road in Ivanhoe, in the City of Banyule, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1937 on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the town hall was designed in the Streamline Moderne style for the Heidelberg City Council by architectural firm Peck & Kemter in association with A.C. Leith & Bartlett.
2.4 km · heritage-listed civic building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 04John Cain Memorial Park
John Cain Memorial Park is an Australian association football ground in Thornbury, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The ground is named after John Cain 'Senior' former Victorian Premier and father of John Cain former Premier of Victoria 1982–90.
3.2 km · park in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Chadwick House
The Chadwick House is a villa located at 32–34 The Eyrie in Eaglemont, in the City of Banyule, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It is one of three neighbouring houses built by Harold Desbrowe-Annear, a leading Melbourne architect, in the Arts and Crafts style.
2.8 km · heritage-listed house in Eaglemont, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Darebin Creek Bridge
Darebin Creek Bridge is a bluestone masonry arch and concrete road bridge on Heidelberg road Alphington over Darebin Creek. It was built for Heidelberg Road Trust to a design of John C Climie CE and constructed by contractor O. H. Willison in 1864, to replace an earlier 1852 timber bridge which had fallen into a poor state of repair.
4 km · Bridge in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Featherston House
Featherston House is in Ivanhoe, Victoria. It was designed by leading Australian architect Robin Boyd of Romberg & Boyd in 1967.
4 km · house in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 08Desbrowe Annear House
The Desbrowe-Annear house is a villa located at 36–38 The Eyrie in Eaglemont, in the City of Banyule, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It is one of three neighbouring houses built by Harold Desbrowe-Annear, a leading Melbourne architect, in the Arts and Crafts style.
2.8 km · heritage-listed house in Eaglemont, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 09The Home of the Matildas
The Home of the Matildas is an association football stadium in Bundoora, Melbourne, Australia. It was intended to be the home base of the Australia women's national soccer team, and is the home of Melbourne Victory in the A-League Women, Melbourne Victory FC Youth in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, and the Melbourne Victory Afghan Women's Team in the Women's State League 2 South-East in 2024.
2.4 km · Melbourne soccer stadium · Wikipedia - 10La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science
The La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science is an Australian institute based at La Trobe University in Melbourne. It contains research groups in life sciences, physical sciences, and applied sciences and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas through the School of Molecular Sciences.
2.7 km · Australian research institute based at La Trobe University · Wikipedia
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Getting to Heidelberg West
- Airports
- Melbourne (MEL), 20 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 61 km
- Stations
- Darebin, 3.5 km · Eaglemont, 2.3 km
- Geelong/Melbourne → Heidelberg West12 km · quickest by road, 34 min · A$1.5–2
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Heidelberg West604 km · quickest by air, 4h 42m · A$200–300
- Adelaide → Heidelberg West656 km · quickest by air, 4h 59m · A$210–320
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No local-transport research exists yet for Heidelberg 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 Heidelberg West. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Heidelberg West
Heidelberg West is 11 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Heidelbergsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.2 km
- Prestonsuburb of Melbourne, Australia3.4 km
- Thornburysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.9 km
- Rosannasuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.1 km
- Ivanhoesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.9 km
- Kingsburysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.4 km