Balwyn

Balwyn is a city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District. Its nearby government region is the City of Boroondara. At the 2016 Census, Balwyn had a populace of 13,312. Whitehorse Road runs east-west along the ridgeline through the focal point of Balwyn. Balwyn Road runs north-south from Koonung Creek Reserve neighboring the Eastern Freeway to Canterbury Road.

The south western part of Balwyn was extracted as the suburb of Deepdene in 2010. Balwyn was part of Henry Elgar's Special Survey of 8 square miles 21 km2 in 1841, which was subdivided into little ranches and brushing runs. The Balwyn Cinema, at present worked by Palace Cinemas, first opened as a solitary screen theater in 1930. It was later changed over into a multiplex during the 1990s, however the lobby was as of late reestablished, revealing the first 1930s tiled floor. It at present additionally fills in as the head office of Palace Cinemas.

Balwyn is reliably positioned as one of Melbourne's 10 most elite rural areas. The legacy ensured Reid Estate is particularly noted as a territory of Balwyn between Mont Albert Road and Whitehorse Road containing numerous compositionally huge Interwar houses. Balwyn is additionally home to the Maranoa Gardens, Australia's first professional flower bed committed to indigenous vegetation. The rural area has been deified by the Skyhooks single named after the suburb, 'Balwyn Calling', while The Age daily paper once portrayed the suburb as "ostensibly Melbourne's generally loved".