Wheelers Hill is a suburb in

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, 23 km south-east of Melbourne's

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, located within the

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. Wheelers Hill recorded a population of 20,652 at the . At 152m above sea level it includes one of the highest points in metropolitan Melbourne.

History

Wheelers Hill was named after James Wheeler in 1888, who was an early settler in the

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area. Wheeler came out from Kilbride townland,

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. James married Ellen Reilly née Glynn in 1848 after the death of her husband, Bernard. There was a five-room house on a creek that went down to the

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not far down the road from the Post Office. Wheeler had a disagreement with Joseph Jell about the cutting of trees which led to the lands being surveyed. He sold the land in 1854 and moved to Woodend. The Wheelers Hill Hotel was a post office and stopping point for farmers before a 6 to 8-hour drive to the city by horse to sell their goods. The Wheelers Mansion was destroyed by a fire in the late 1920s. The house was located somewhere to the south of the Wheelers Hill Library. The Post Office opened on 1 January 1869 but was called Mulgrave until 1888.

Today

Wheelers Hill is home to

Jells Park Jells Park is a public park in Wheelers Hill, a southeastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The park opened on 30 April 1976 and is named after Joseph Jell, a cattle grazier who worked in the area in the mid-late 1800s. The park attr ...

, a major recreational facility of over 127 hectares. It contains 9 km of cycle paths and walking tracks which surround a large lake. Wheelers Hill is known for its trees.

Shopping Precincts

* Brandon Park Shopping Centre *

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Sport

* Notting Hill/Brandon Park Cricket Club is the suburb's leading cricket team. * Wheelers Hill Tennis Club on Sunnybrook Drive. * Glen Waverley Golf Club at Waverley Road.

Education

Secondary Schools *

Wheelers Hill Secondary College Wheelers Hill Secondary College is a coeducational state school in the Melbourne suburb of Wheelers Hill, Victoria, Australia. School number 8474. The College is divided into two sub-schools and six Year levels: Middle School (Years 7–9) and ...

Brentwood Secondary College Brentwood Secondary College is a co-educational, public high school, located in Glen Waverley, Victoria, Australia. Glen Waverley South Primary School adjoins the college, and they have their own oval, which is used for many sport activities s ...

Primary Schools * Wheelers Hill Primary School * Jells Park Primary School * Waverley Meadows Primary School * St. Justin's Parish School * Brandon Park Primary School * Good Shepherd Parish School Private Schools *

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Public library and art gallery

The Museum of Australian Photography and the Wheelers Hill branch of the Monash Public Library Service co-located in a building at the corner of Jells Road and Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill. The architect of the original 1990 Gallery was

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. Even though Seidler had designed a further whole cultural precinct beyond the gallery,See "Waverley Cultural Centre" (scheme of 1988) page 356 of ''Harry Seidler: Four Decades of Architecture'' by Kenneth Frampton and Philip Drew (London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992). This scheme was highly praised by modern architecture writer Kenneth Frampton in book's essay "1965-1991 Isostatic Architecture" being pages 86-111 at page 110 Seidler's designs for a complete cultural centre were never implemented. Later architects Cox Sanderson Ness designed the adjoining library which has a bay of windows facing a small lake. The Gallery contains a nationally significant collection of Australian photography, of which its permanent collection comprises over 1500 works illustrating the development and evolution of the photographic medium in Australia.

Transport

There are nine bus services that run in or through the vicinity of Wheelers Hill. Two

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services run through the boundaries of the suburb.

References

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