Hamlyn Heights is a residential suburb of
Geelong
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...
. It located to the west of the city on hills that overlook
Corio Bay
Corio Bay is one of numerous internal bays in the southwest corner of Australia's Port Phillip, and is the bay on which abuts the City of Geelong. The nearby suburb of Corio takes its name from Corio Bay.
Etymology
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It was named after Sidney Hamlyn, a local resident in the 1940s.
At the , Hamlyn Heights had a population of 6,293.
The suburb boundaries are Church St, Ballarat Rd, Moorabool River and two unmarked boundaries extending between Church St to Moorabool River and between Moorabool River and Ballarat Rd.
Hamlyn Heights has two retail areas. A large shopping strip is located in Vines Rd.
The Post Office opened here on 2 February 1959 it is known as Vines Road, Geelong.
A small group of shops also exist in Fairlie St.
Hamlyn Heights was the home to international actor
Guy Pearce
Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian actor. Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire in England, and raised in Geelong, Victoria (Australia), Victoria in Australia, he started his career portraying Mike Young (Neighbours), Mike Young in ...
who lived in Hamlyn Heights during the 1990s.
Education
Hamlyn Heights has two primary schools, Herne Hill Primary School & Hamlyn Banks Primary School (created in the late 1990s by a merger between Hamlyn Heights Primary School and Lovely Banks Primary School).
Hamlyn Heights has one secondary school:
Western Heights Secondary College.
In 2018 Hamlyn Views primary/secondary school (for young people with special needs) opened on the former site of Bell Park High School (Western Heights Secondary College Quamby Campus) in Quamby Avenue.
Sports and recreation
Hamlyn Park is home to the Hamlyn Park Tennis Club, Geelong Ballroom Dance Club, 1st Hamlyn Heights Scout Group and the Bell Park Sport and Recreation Club which has teams in the local football and netball associations.
Hamlyn Park was developed by the Shire of Corio and the Geelong Scottish club out of waste ground and scrub as a multi-sport facility with soccer as the first activity.
Heritage listed sites
* 21 Brewongle Avenue
*'Glenpanyal' - 22 Glengate Street
References
External links
Hamlyn Park Tennis ClubHamlyn Heights - City of Greater Geelong
Suburbs of Geelong
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