Footscray 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.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Flemington Racecourse Station and Flemington Racecourse.

Flemington Racecourse Station

Railway station

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Flemington Racecourse station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne and the terminus of the Flemington Racecourse line, part of the Melbourne rail network. Flemington Racecourse Station is situated 650 metres north of Footscray Park.

Flemington Racecourse

Sports venue

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Flemington Racecourse is a major horse racing venue located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is most notable for hosting the Melbourne Cup, which is the world's richest handicap and the world's richest 3200-metre horse race. Flemington Racecourse is situated 710 metres northeast of Footscray Park.

Footscray railway station

Railway station

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Footscray station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne and V/Line on the metropolitan Sunbury, Werribee and Williamstown lines and the regional Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong lines, part of the Melbourne and Victorian rail networks. Footscray railway station is situated 1 km southwest of Footscray Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Docklands and Inner north.

Docklands

Suburb

Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Docklands is an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia, located directly to the western end of the Melbourne central business district between the neighboring suburbs of West Melbourne to the north/northwest, and South Wharf, South Melbourne and Port Melbourne to the south/southwest. Docklands is situated 4 km southeast of Footscray Park.

Inner north

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Melbourne's inner north is a vibrant and diverse area, home to a number of cultural and social icons of Melbourne. It is famed for the popular Lygon Street Italian district, while next door lies the University of Melbourne, the best university in Australia by many rankings.

Little Italy

Neighborhood

Photo: Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Little Italy in Victoria, Australia, is a Little Italy cultural precinct of the Italian community of Melbourne. It is situated along Lygon Street in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton. Little Italy is situated 5 km east of Footscray Park.

Footscray Park

Type: Park
Description: park in Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Category: recreation area
Location: City of Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.79328° or 37° 47′ 36″ south

Longitude

144.90652° or 144° 54′ 24″ east

Open location code

4RJ66W44+MJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 45792871

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

Wikidata ID

Q5466572

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