Tottenham is a suburb in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria
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,
Australia
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, west of Melbourne's
Central Business District
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...
, located within the
City of Maribyrnong
The City of Maribyrnong is a local government area within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Australia. It comprises the inner western suburbs between 5 and 10 kilometres from Melbourne city centre. It was formed in 1994 from the merger of th ...
local government area
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. Tottenham recorded no population at the .
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It is bounded by Sunshine Road to the north, Sredna Street, Paramount Road and Tottenham Parade to the east, Geelong Road to the south and the Newport–Sunshine railway line.
Tottenham is mostly an ]industrial suburb
An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where zoning promotes industry, or they may be industrial towns that become suburbs by urban spra ...
, with the Olex Cable manufacturing facility one of the many industrial businesses located in Tottenham.
History
Tottenham Central Post Office opened on 1 May 1947. Tottenham East Post Office opened on 18 November 1935 and closed in 1973. A Tottenham R.A.A.F. Post Office was open from 1947 until 1957.
Transportation
Tottenham is serviced by the Tottenham railway station
Tottenham railway station is located on the Sunbury line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the western Melbourne suburb of West Footscray, and it opened on 2 March 1891. , which lies on the convergent point of the borders of West Footscray
West Footscray is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Maribyrnong local government area. West Footscray recorded a population of 11,729 at the .
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, Tottenham and Braybrook. It is a station on the Sunbury railway line
The Sunbury railway line is a suburban electric railway in Melbourne, Australia. It has 15 stations, in Myki ticketing Zones 1 and 2. It is the electrified section of the Bendigo railway within metropolitan Melbourne. Prior to the line extensi ...
.
See also
* City of Sunshine
The City of Sunshine was a local government area about west of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1860 until 1994.
History
The local area was first incorporated as the Braybro ...
– Tottenham was previously within this former local government area.
References
Suburbs of Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Maribyrnong
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