South Kingsville
South Kingsville is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km (5.0 mi) south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area.

South Kingsville is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km (5.0 mi) south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area. South Kingsville recorded a population of 2,156 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around South Kingsville
8 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.
- 01Victoria University
Victoria University is an Australian public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It is a dual-sector university, providing courses in both higher education and technical and further education.
3.6 km · dual-sector public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Scienceworks
Scienceworks is one of Australia’s leading science museums located in Spotswood, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. It is one of three museums operated by Museums Victoria.
2.3 km · science museum in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Coode Canal
Coode Canal is a reach of the lower Yarra River in Melbourne, the capital city of the Australian state of Victoria. The canal was excavated in 1886, as part of harbour improvements designed by Sir John Coode to improve access for ships to Melbourne's main river docks.
3 km · canal in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Footscray Park
Footscray Park is a 15-hectare urban park located on the south bank of the Maribyrnong River in Footscray, Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The park is one of the largest and most intact examples of an Edwardian park in Australia.
3.9 km · park in Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Footscray Town Hall
The Footscray Town Hall, also known as the Maribyrnong Town Hall since council amalgamations in the 1990s, is a civic building located on Napier Street in Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1936 as the town hall for the City of Footscray, it was designed by Joseph Plottel in a revival form of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, with the interior completed in the Streamline Moderne style.
2.9 km · civic building in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 06Whitten Oval
Whitten Oval is an Australian rules football venue located in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray. It has been the home of the Western Bulldogs since 1883.
2.5 km · stadium in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Westgate Park
Westgate Park is a public park in Port Melbourne, Victoria, 6 km southwest of the Melbourne central business district and covering 40 hectares of land. The park is located near Fishermans Bend, an industrial district along the left banks of the lower Yarra River downstream of the Maribyrnong River confluence, and is namesaked for the West Gate Bridge that traverses over the park's southern end.
3.6 km · park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 08St. Prophet Ilija Macedonian Orthodox Church, Footscray
The St Prophet Ilija Macedonian Orthodox Church is a Macedonian Orthodox church serving the inner western Melbourne suburb of Footscray, Victoria, Australia. The church borders Footscray and is itself located on the outskirts of Seddon, an inner western Melbourne suburb.
2.3 km · church in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to South Kingsville
- Airports
- Melbourne (MEL), 17 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 43 km
- Stations
- Middle Footscray, 2.5 km · Tottenham, 2.4 km · Paisley railway station, 3.8 km · White City railway station, 2.8 km
- Geelong/Melbourne → South Kingsville12 km · quickest by road, 29 min · A$2–2.5
- Hobart (Cambridge) → South Kingsville600 km · quickest by air, 4h 38m · A$200–290
- Adelaide → South Kingsville647 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · A$210–310
- 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 South Kingsville
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 South Kingsville. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe route from Port Melbourne is slightly more convoluted and includes a ferry (see below for more details).
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Next door to South Kingsville
South Kingsville is 8 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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