Eltham

Eltham is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District. Its neighborhood government area is the Shire of Nillumbik. At the 2016 Census, Eltham had a population of 18,314. Eltham is one of the 'inexperienced wedge' areas that provide highly undeveloped, accessible environments in the Melbourne suburban location. These inexperienced wedge regions are beneath consistent strain from tendencies inclusive of street and expressway expansions, but Eltham has managed to maintain many tree-lined streets and leafy reserves. However, the individual of the suburb is changing swiftly, with extended road visitors and better-density housing becoming extra commonplace.

Eltham's traveler attractions include the artists colony Montsalvat and the Diamond Valley Railway, the most important ridable miniature railway in Australia. A reserve for a village at the junction of the Diamond Creek and Yarra River is shown on maps round 1848. By 1851 the primary Crown allotments had been being subdivided and offered, in conjunction with a non-public subdivision advanced by means of J. M. Holloway, known as Little Eltham. At this time, the metropolis's centre turned into placed around the intersection of Pitt Street and Main Road. Eltham Post Office opened on 1 February 1854. The arrival of the railway line in 1902 drew enterprise further north alongside Main Road to the modern city centre.