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Surrey Hills

Surrey Hills is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Boroondara and Whitehorse local government areas.

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The place

Surrey Hills is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Boroondara and Whitehorse local government areas. Surrey Hills recorded a population of 13,655 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Surrey Hills

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.

  1. 01
    Wattle Park

    Wattle Park is a 41-hectare urban park in Burwood, a suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It is known for its plantation of 12,000 wattle trees.

    1 km · park in Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Greythorn Park

    Greythorn Park is a park in the suburb of Balwyn North, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located in the eastern part of the suburb known as Greythorn, from which the park gets its name.

    3.7 km · park in Balwyn North, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Siena College

    Siena College is a Roman Catholic secondary school for girls in Camberwell, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It was founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1940.

    2.1 km · College in Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    South Surrey Park

    South Surrey Park is a park in Melbourne, Australia, located in the suburb of Surrey Hills. The park is progressively being replanted with indigenous native species.

    1.1 km · park in City of Boroondara, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Box Hill Cemetery

    The Box Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Box Hill, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The 12.5-hectare site is known as the resting place of notable figures from Melbourne.

    2.8 km · cemetery in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Box Hill City Oval

    Box Hill City Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket venue located in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill. It is the home of the Box Hill Hawks, which plays in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women's competitions, and the Box Hill Cricket Club, which plays in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association.

    3 km · Stadium in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Maranoa Botanic Gardens

    The Maranoa Botanic Gardens is a 3.5-hectare botanical garden located in Balwyn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is significant as being one of the first and only botanical gardens in the world dedicated solely to Australian native plants.

    2.6 km · botanical garden in Balwyn, Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Our Lady of Sion College

    Our Lady of Sion College is a Catholic school for girls located in Box Hill, Melbourne, Australia. The current principal is Rebecca Cetrola.

    2.5 km · Catholic school for girls located in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Surrey Hills

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 29 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 61 km
Stations
Laburnum, 3.2 km · East Camberwell, 3.3 km · Hartwell, 3.1 km · Riversdale, 3.2 km · Willison, 3.2 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Surrey Hills
    8 km · quickest by road, 27 min · A$1.5–2
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Surrey Hills
    594 km · quickest by air, 5h 7m · A$220–330
  • Adelaide → Surrey Hills
    665 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · A$240–350
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Surrey Hills

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 Surrey Hills. 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    635 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    737 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,595 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,046 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,221 km

If you know how people move in Surrey Hills – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Surrey Hills

Surrey Hills is 13 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Blackburnsuburb of Melbourne, Australia4 km
  • Box Hillsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria2 km
  • Canterburysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.5 km
  • Camberwellsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.1 km
  • Balwynsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.3 km
  • Blackburn Southsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.5 km