Syndal, Victoria

Syndal is a Locality in the

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suburbs of

Glen Waverley Glen Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Glen Waverley recorded a population of 42,642 at the 2021 census. Histor ...

and

Mount Waverley Mount Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Mount Waverley recorded a population of 35,340 at the 2021 census. ...

in Victoria, Australia around the intersection of High Street Road and Blackburn Road. It is in the local government area of the

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. From the intersection down to

Syndal railway station Syndal railway station is located on the Glen Waverley line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the eastern Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley, and opened on 5 May 1930. History Syndal station opened on 5 May 1930, when the railway line from ...

on Coleman Parade, is the Syndal Shopping Centre. This strip is a highly populated commercial area encompassing a number of diverse local interest stores including several take-away food shops, a laundromat, a bridal store, a dry cleaner and many others in between. The commercial area is renowned for many long established specialist businesses. The intersection used to have three petrol stations, three banks (the

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, the

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, and the Westpac Bank), and two supermarkets including Schultz's supermarket owned and run by the

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winner John Schultz and his brother Robert Schultz. Today, Syndal has no banks, petrol stations, or supermarkets. At one point in time there were five schools, three primary schools and two secondary schools, containing the name Syndal – The former schools of Syndal High School, Syndal Technical School, and Syndal Primary School, and the continuing Syndal North Primary School (now Mount Waverley North Primary School), and Syndal South Primary School. Syndal has a nominated

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postal office, although Syndal is still part of the greater

and

suburbs, and shares the same

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as Mount Waverley, 3149, or Glen Waverley, 3150. Syndal was originally the name of a farm owned by Sir Redmond Barry on High Street Road, which was purchased off Barry by the Coleman family who consolidated a number of farms at the time. The name for the locality was reclaimed in 1930 when the railway line to Glen Waverley station was opened and the name for the station at Blackburn Road and Coleman Parade had to be decided. The centre of the Syndal locality, and the original Syndal property is on High Street Road, west of the Blackburn Road intersection. {{Coord, -37.872, 145.148, format=dms, type:city_region:AU-VIC, display=title Localities of Melbourne Glen Waverley, Victoria