Langwarrin South is an official bounded locality in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria
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,
Australia
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, 47 km south-east of Melbourne's
Central Business District
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, located within the
City of Frankston local government area
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. 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
The Mornington Peninsula Freeway is a freeway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, that provides a link from south-eastern suburban Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula. Whilst the entire freeway from Dingley Village to Rosebud is declared by ...
.
Mulberry Hill
Langwarrin South is the location of Mulberry Hill, the former home of Daryl Lindsay
Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay (31 December 1889, in Creswick, Victoria – 25 December 1976, in Mornington), known as Dan Lindsay, was an Australian artist.
Early life
He was the youngest son in a large family born to Anglo-Irish surgeon Robert Cha ...
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 National Trust of Australia
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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 soccer
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club Langwarrin SC
Langwarrin Soccer Club is an Australian soccer club based in Langwarrin South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1964, the club competes in National Premier Leagues Victoria 2.
History
Langwarrin Soccer Club was formed by ...
competing in the National Premier League
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which is the third tier of Australian soccer behind the national A-League
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.
See also
* City of Frankston – Langwarrin South is located within this local government area.
* List of Frankston people – notable people from the City of Frankston (including Langwarrin South).
External links
Images of Mulberry Hill
References
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