Elsternwick is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km south-east of Melbourne’s Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local executive area. Elsternwick recorded a population of 10,887 at the 2021 census.
In terms of its cadastral division, Elsternwick is in the parish of Prahran within the County of Bourke.
Elsternwick is bounded by the Nepean Highway, Elster Avenue, Kooyong Road, Glen Eira Road, and Hotham Street (the continuation of Williams Road).
Formerly Elsternwick covered the Place located in the City of Bayside bounded by Head/Bridge Street, Nepean Highway, Glen Huntly Road and St. Kilda Street. This includes the cricket ground (originally the house of the Elsternwick Cricket Club) and currently known as the Sportscover Arena. It is located within the larger area known as Elsternwick Park – located at the junction of the Nepean Highway and Glen Huntly Road – as is the former Elsternwick Park Golf Course.
In the thesame way that Ripponlea took its publish from the Rippon Lea Estate of Sir Frederick Sargood, Elsternwick took its declare from the largest property in the district: Charles Ebden’s house Elster (Elster is German for “magpie [de]“). The Place was since known as Red Bluff.
The creek within reach became known as the Elster Creek; and, when a village grew up upon the creek, the Anglo-Saxon suffix ‘wick’, meaning village, was added.
The Elsternwick village was proposed in 1851 . Elsternwick was originally situated across three municipalities – Caulfield, Brighton and St Kilda. At the decrease of the 1880s unproductive attempts were made for Elsternwick to become administratively independent. Today it is in the Local Government Area of the City of Glen Eira. The postcode is 3185.
Elsternwick village was surveyed in 1856, and Elsternwick Post Office opened on 22 June 1860.
In 1861 a railway line, operated by the Melbourne & Hobson’s Bay Railway Company, was built from Melbourne to Brighton which included a railway station at Elsternwick. The first site of Caulfield Grammar School, founded in 1881, was against the Elsternwick railway station.
In the 1880s, Elsternwick railway station was afterward the Melbourne fall of the railway descent to the large-scale sugar beet handing out mill at Rosstown (see Rosstown Railway) – now known as Carnegie – and beyond. This railway was seldom used, and it ceased to law in 1916.
A tramline was opened along Glen Huntly Road in 1889. Another tramline, running in the middle of Elsternwick and Point Ormond, was opened upon 4 June 1915, and was closed upon 22 October 1960.
The ABC studios in Melbourne were located in Gordon Street. The studios were built during the 1950s and 1960s and were decommissioned in 2017. Many programs were filmed and produced in the studios, such as Countdown, Recovery and Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight.
Glen Huntly Road in Elsternwick has a variety of cafés and restaurants. Elsternwick was the house of perhaps the best-known brothel in Australia, and certainly Melbourne; Daily Planet, which was the first in the world to be listed on a hoard exchange (the Australian Securities Exchange).
Hattam (Mens and Boys Wear) Stores, at 383 Glenhuntly Road, a long, narrow shop, is one of the last locations in Australia that still has a Lamson “Rapid Wire” Cash Carrier in place; it connects three locations in the subjugate section of the shop following the central cashier’s desk.
The 2017 season of The Block was filmed in Regent Street.
In the 2016 Census, there were 10,349 people in Elsternwick. 65.3% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 3.9%, New Zealand 1.9%, India 1.7%, South Africa 1.7% and China 1.5%. 73.0% of people spoke lonesome English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Greek 2.6%, Hebrew 2.0%, Russian 1.9%, Yiddish 1.8% and Mandarin 1.7%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 35.5%, Catholic 18.0%, and Judaism 17.8%.
Elsternwick railway station upon the Sandringham railway line is located on Riddell Parade against Glen Huntly Road. For a number of years (in the late 1800s and in the future 1900s) it was afterward where the Rosstown Railway linked taking place with the Sandringham railway line.
Melbourne tram route 67 associates Elsternwick to the Melbourne city centre. It travels along Glen Huntly Road from Carnegie, through Glen Huntly and Caulfield South to Elsternwick and, then, via Brighton Road and St Kilda Road to the CBD, via Swanston Street. It terminates at the University of Melbourne.
The Elsternwick Club Sandham St est 1919 includes Lawn Bowls on Tiff Dwarf green and various deed rooms.
The Elsternwick Cricket Club was founded in August 1901. The Elsternwick Main Oval, now known as Sportscover Arena or Elsternwick Park, was established gruffly after the club’s foundation. The ‘Wickas’, as the club is adoringly known, plays in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association.
Golfers played at Elsternwick Park Golf Club, also known as Royal Elsternwick, on Glen Huntly Road until 2018, when the course closed to be used as passive log on space.
The Elsternwick Croquet Club, founded in 1911, is situated in the Hopetoun Gardens.
The Elsternwick Primary School – once officially located in “Brickwood Street, Elsternwick” – is now, without any shift in its visceral position, officially located in Murphy Street, Brighton ; and, consequently, the suburb currently has no meting out schools.
Elsternwick contains a number of heritage-listed sites, including: