Princes Hill
| Princes Hill Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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| Population | 2099 (2006) [1] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | Lua error: Unable to convert population "2099 (2006) '"`UNIQ--ref-00000000-QINU`"'" to a number. | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3054 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 0.4 km2 (0.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Standort | 3 km (2 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Yarra | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Melbourne | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Melbourne | ||||||||||||||
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Princes Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra. At the 2006 Census, Princes Hill had a population of 2099.
Princes Hill is named for the Prince of Wales, similarly to neighbouring Carlton.
Demographer Bernard Salt dubbed Princes Hill "Chick City" in 2003, after 2001 Census data revealed the suburb had the highest proportion of single women to men in Melbourne.[3]
St Michael's Princes Hill
The Argus on Saturday 11 October 1884 reported that a meeting of members of the Church of England the night before at the Carlton Hall in Prince's Street (now North Carlton) agreed that as 'North Carlton was now thickly populated, while dwellings were being rapidly built on Prince's hill,' that it would 'not be unreasonable to conclude that the time had arrived when the residents in the neighbourhood could support a church.' The meeting agreed that that it was 'desirable that a church should be erected in the newly constituted parish of St Michael's, and that permission be obtained from the bishop in council to sell the original site on the west side of Canning street, near Pigdon street, for the purpose of purchasing another in a more favourable position at the intersection of Wilson and Paterson streets, Prince's Hill.' The church today is on the corner of Mcpherson and McIlwraith Streets in Princes Hill. By May 1885 'a temporary building on Princes hill was nearing completion and was expected to be ready for opening, on Sunday the 17th inst.'
Land
In 1884 the Argus reports land sold in 'Princes hill, North Carlton, Wilson street, 66 x 165 to right of way £305 5s'.
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Princes Hill (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ Princes Hill, accessed 27 November 2006
- ^ Minchin, Liz: The geography of love, The Age, July 9, 2003.
External links
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