Edinburgh Gardens

Edinburgh Gardens is a large park positioned in Fitzroy. It is bounded by Brunswick Street and St Georges Road to the west, the curve of Alfred Crescent to the north and east, and Freeman Street to the south. It changed into made out of a grant of land in March 1862 by way of Queen Victoria and laid out with the aid of Clement Hodgkinson, who designed a lot of Melbourne's parks and gardens. At approximately 24 hectares in size, the park is massive by internal city requirements.

The Edinburgh Gardens precinct is defined by the escargot formed reserve originally set aside for Public Gardens, the Fitzroy and the North Fitzroy Cricket Grounds and a railway station and line. The unique form of the gardens stems from the resolution among one of a kind avenue grids and the preference to create a circus alongside Georgian traces. The scheme for a grand crescent with principal gardens, playing grounds and rail centers was advanced because the maximum logical answer to this quandary.