Mulgrave

Mulgrave is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 km south-east of Melbourne's focal business district Its nearby government region is the City of Monash. At the 2016 Census, Mulgrave had a populace of 19,368. The rural area takes its name from Mulgrave Castle in the County of York. Sir George Phipps, the Earl of Mulgrave in the Peerage of Great Britain would fill in as the Governor of Victoria somewhere in the range of 1879 and 1884.

Most outstandingly, the rural area gave its name to the Mulgrave Freeway, which was later renamed to the Monash Freeway. Mulgrave Parish, as it was then known, was first settled in 1839 by Thomas Napier, a Scottish Builder who initially achieved the Colony of Victoria in the mid-1830s. Napier settled on the banks of the Dandenong Creek and fabricated his residence in Bushy Park Wetlands, and what is currently Jells Park. None of the first residences remain, however some were decimated as late as the last piece of the 20th century.

The rural area has an Australian Rules football group, The Mulgrave Lions, contending in the neighborhood Eastern Football League. There is additionally a Mulgrave Cricket Club and a Mulgrave Junior Cricket Club which contend in both the Eastern cricket affiliation and the southern places of worship and region affiliation. The Mulgrave lions and the Mulgrave cricket club share a similar home ground of Mulgrave save which is off Garnett Road.