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Lonsdale Investment Trust
Lonsdale may refer to: Places Australia * Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria * Lonsdale, South Australia, an industrial suburb of Adelaide * Point Lonsdale, a coastal township in Victoria Canada * Lonsdale Quay, Vancouver, British Columbia * Lonsdale Tunnel, North Vancouver, British Columbia * Lower Lonsdale, North Vancouver * North Vancouver-Lonsdale, a provincial electoral district in British Columbia * Upper Lonsdale, North Vancouver United Kingdom * Lonsdale, the valley of the River Lune in Lancashire and Cumbria, England * Kirkby Lonsdale, a small town in Cumbria, England * Lonsdale Hundred, a hundred of the historic English county of Lancashire through which the River Lune flowed * Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency), a parliamentary constituency from 1918 to 1950 * Lonsdale College, Lancaster, a constituent college of Lancaster University, England * Lonsdale Square, London * Lonsdale Road, Oxford * Lonsdale Road Reservoir, Barnes, London * Morecambe and Lonsdale (UK Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonsdale Street
Lonsdale Street is a main street and thoroughfare in the city centre of Melbourne, Australia. It runs roughly east–west and was laid out in 1837 as one of Melbourne's original boundaries within the Hoddle Grid. The street extends from Spring Street in the east to Spencer Street in the west. Lonsdale Street is home to multiple office buildings, churches, restaurants and shopping centres. Its most notable function is housing the State of Victoria's legal precinct and courthouses. The street is also named for Melbourne's first magistrate, William Lonsdale. History 19th Century Lonsdale Street was included in the grid developed by Robert Hoddle, the chief surveyor for the new settlement of Melbourne. Whilst Lonsdale and other streets were originally designed at 99 feet, then Governor Richard Bourke initially objected to the large sizing. Hoddle persuaded him, on the basis of health and convenience, to allow the larger street width featured in present-day Lonsdale Stree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
