Olinda

Olinda is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 36 km east of Melbourne's focal business region. Its nearby government region is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Olinda had a populace of 1568. Olinda is named after Olinda Creek, which starts in the township. The stream was named in 1858 after Alice Olinda Hodgkinson, the little girl of Clement Hodgkinson, Victoria's acting Surveyor General. The town was at first a logging settlement, anyway as land was made accessible for agriculture in the mid 1900s, the town started to develop generously.

The Post Office opened on 21 August 1901. Berry cultivating, dairying, and bloom developing wound up prosperous businesses, and tourism before long thrived as the key business of Olinda. Together with its neighboring township Ferny Creek Olinda has an Australian Rules football and netball groups Olinda-Ferny Creek contending in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League.

Olinda likewise has a cricket club flaunting 5 junior groups from non-aggressive to under 16s, 4 senior sides and a veterans group. In recent years the cricket club has won a sum of 8 premierships. Golfers used to play the course of the Olinda Golf Club on Olinda Monbulk Road, since shut and is presently utilized as an open stop for walkers and comparable recreation.