Ardeer is a suburb in

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, west of the

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, located within the City of Brimbank

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. Ardeer recorded a population of 3,170 at the . Ardeer railway station is on the Serviceton railway line.

History

The suburb of Ardeer is named after Ardeer railway station, which in turn was named for

Ardeer, Scotland Ardeer was a small town now officially incorporated into Stevenston on the Ardeer peninsula, in the parish of Stevenston, North Ayrshire, originally an island and later its extensive sand dune system became the site of Nobel Explosives, a domin ...

, which was a major explosives factory of Nobel/ICI. Nobel acquired the Deer Park explosives factory in about 1929, expanded it, and established new residential areas in the vicinity for its workers. Many streets in Deer Park are named for places associated with Nobel and ICI in Britain. Ardeer Post Office opened on 1 December 1953 as suburban development took place and closed in 1979. Ardeer today is a small suburb split into two enclaves by Kororoit Creek. The area south of Forrest Street, previously known as Ardeer, was rezoned in the late 1990s to be incorporated into Sunshine West.

Facilities

Education

Ardeer Primary School

Mother of God School

Religion

Bao Vuong Temple, a Vietnamese Buddhist temple, is located in the suburb. Ardeer also has a Ukrainian Catholic church and a Polish Catholic church.

Sports

Westgate FC is the local

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club. Formed by Serbian immigrants in 1985, it competes in the Victorian State League Division 1 N/W, the 4th tier of the Victorian soccer pyramid.

Kororoit Creek

A section of the Kororoit Creek runs along the north and west border of Ardeer. The Kororoit Creek Trail contains wide open park space and native vegetation rarely seen so close to the

. In October 2007, John Brumby announced that funding would be provided to link the Kororoit Creek Trail to the Federation Trail, joining two western suburb bike paths.

Notable residents

* Brian Barnett OAM, herpetologist.

References

Suburbs of Melbourne Suburbs of the City of Brimbank {{melbourne-geo-stub