Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels.

Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. The Waverley novels are considered seminal to the genre of historical fiction, and Ivanhoe became by far the best-known entry in the whole cycle of nearly thirty books.
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Worth seeing in and around Ivanhoe
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.
- 01Heide 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.
3.8 km · art museum in Australia · Wikipedia - 02Heidelberg 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.
400 m · heritage-listed civic building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 03John 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.
1.5 km · park in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Chadwick 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.
1.8 km · heritage-listed house in Eaglemont, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Darebin 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.
1.3 km · Bridge in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Featherston House
Featherston House is in Ivanhoe, Victoria. It was designed by leading Australian architect Robin Boyd of Romberg & Boyd in 1967.
1.2 km · house in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Desbrowe 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.
1.8 km · heritage-listed house in Eaglemont, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 08Northland Shopping Centre
Northland Shopping Centre is a major shopping centre in Preston, approximately 11 km north of the Melbourne central business district in Victoria, Australia. It is the largest predominantly single-level shopping centre in Melbourne.
3.6 km · shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 09Rosanna Parklands
The Elliston Estate, or more simply, Elliston, is a garden suburb real estate subdivision located in Rosanna, in the City of Banyule, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The estate comprises houses, streets, and parks located on Bachli, Cremin, and Ferrier Courts; Von Nida Crescent; Finlayson Street; and Lower Plenty Road, in Rosanna.
3.5 km · park in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 10Saint John's Anglican Church, Heidelberg
The St John's Anglican Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church, located at 1 Burgundy Street, in Heidelberg, in the City of Banyule, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1851 on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the church was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 18 June 2026 in recognition of its historical and architectural significance; and was also added to the non-statutory and now defunct Register of the National Estate on 21 March 1978, and by the City of Banyule to a non-statutory local government list on an unknown date.
2.9 km · heritage-listed church in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ivanhoe
- Airports
- Melbourne (MEL), 21 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 59 km
- Stations
- Darebin, 800 m · Eaglemont, 1.1 km · Rosanna, 3.5 km · Fulham Grange railway station, 2.1 km · Dennis, 3.3 km
- Geelong/Melbourne → Ivanhoe8 km · quickest by road, 27 min · A$1.5–2
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Ivanhoe601 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · A$200–300
- Adelaide → Ivanhoe658 km · quickest by air, 5h 4m · A$220–320
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ivanhoe
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 Ivanhoe. 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 Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe is 9 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Heidelbergsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3 km
- Fairfieldsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.8 km
- Northcotesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.9 km
- Thornburysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.3 km
- Alphingtonsuburb of Melbourne, Australia2.1 km
- Kew Eastsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.3 km