Langwarrin South, Victoria
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Langwarrin South is a rural locality in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 47 km south-east of Melbourne's
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, located within the
City of Frankston The City of Frankston (officially known as Frankston City Council'')'' is a Local government areas of Victoria, local government area (LGA) in Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia in the southern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of 130 squ ...
local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a federated state, state, province, division (politica ...
. Langwarrin South recorded a population of 1,346 at the 2021 census. Langwarrin South is bounded in the north by Robinsons Road, in the east by Dandenong-Hastings Road, in the south by Golf Links and Baxter-Tooradin Roads and in the west by the route of the proposed extension of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway.


Mulberry Hill

Langwarrin South is the location of Mulberry Hill, the former home of
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and writer
Joan Lindsay Joan à Beckett Weigall, Lady Lindsay (16 November 189623 December 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, she published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a ...
, author of Picnic at Hanging Rock. Joan Lindsay bequeathed the house to the
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. Situated on Golf Links Road, the house is open to the public.National Trust
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Schools

* Woodleigh School


Sport

Langwarrin South has a
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club Langwarrin SC competing in the
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which is the third tier of Australian soccer behind the national
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.


See also

*
City of Frankston The City of Frankston (officially known as Frankston City Council'')'' is a Local government areas of Victoria, local government area (LGA) in Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia in the southern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of 130 squ ...
– Langwarrin South is located within this local government area * List of people from Frankston – notable people from the City of Frankston (including Langwarrin South)


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Images of Mulberry Hill
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