Woodstock, Victoria

Woodstock Victoria
Merriang Road area of Woodstock, from the north-west
Woodstock Location in metropolitan Melbourne
Coordinates	37°32′38″S 145°03′22″E / 37.544°S 145.056°E / -37.544; 145.056Coordinates: 37°32′38″S 145°03′22″E / 37.544°S 145.056°E / -37.544; 145.056
Population	150 (2016)[1]
Postcode(s)	3751
LGA(s)	City of Whittlesea
State electorate(s)	Yan Yean
Federal Division(s)	McEwen
Localities around Woodstock: Beveridge Eden Park Whittlesea Donnybrook Woodstock Yan Yean Wollert Mernda Mernda

Woodstock is a bounded semi-rural locality in Victoria, Australia located just north of Melbourne's outer suburbs. Its local government area is the City of Whittlesea. At the 2016 census, Woodstock had a population of 150.

Australian contemporary poet Robbie Coburn hails from Woodstock. Former Western Australian premier [John Collier] was born and raised in Woodstock

History

Woodstock Post Office opened on 9 January 1858 and closed in 1971. To the west Woodstock West Post office opened in 1877 and continued operating until 1959.^[2] In September 1876 a small timber Catholic church, known as the church of St. Patrick, was erected for local worshippers.^[3]

Deputations were made to the Victorian government during the 1890s to bring a railway line through the area. Unfortunately it was decided that the Sydney-Melbourne rail corridor would run to the west, parallel with the Hume Highway, and so the closest railway station is at Donnybrook approximately 8 km away.

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